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Bobby O’Jay (August 11, 1953 – May 3, 2022) was an American broadcast announcer and DJ.
Born in Batesville, Mississippi, O’Jay was inducted into the Tennessee Radio Hall of Fame in 2021. Honored by the Living Legends Foundation in 2000 and iHeartMedia Memphis in 2018, he was also a National Radio Hall of Fame nominee.
Before joining WDIA — the country’s first Black radio station — as an air personality in 1983, O’Jay launched his radio career in 1972 in Milwaukee. A segue to an on-air gig in Montgomery, Alabama, was followed by a return to Milwaukee prior to landing at WDIA, where he also served as program director, During the course of his estimable tenure at the station, O’Jay interviewed a who’s who in Black music and culture, including Whitney Houston, Muhammad Ali and Temptations members David Ruffin and Eddie Kendricks.