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On-Air Name
Martini Rox

Education
University of Toledo Graduate

Hometown
Ypsilanti, MI

What or who is your favorite musical influence?
Gospel was my first musical influence

What is your most memorable event?
Glass City Expo’s (All of ‘em)

What song is your favorite party starter?
Every year it changes

What was your craziest event ever?
March Madness Triple Threat Birthday Bash

The song you thought you would never play!
Justin Bieber ‘Boyfriend’

Your most embarassing DJ moment…
Any time there is “dead air” meaning nothings playing on air during my show.

What is your favorite place to DJ?
Home! It’s my party & I can play whatever I want.

What is the biggest event you have ever done?
Glass City Expo

Who has been the most famous person at one of your events?
The Juice Family ;)

If you were a cartoon character who would you be?
Storm. She’s a BOSS!

Do you have a Radio or DJ idol?
I grew up on Detroit radio from Mojo to Mason, they were all legends to me

What is your personal favorite song?
I have a lot of favorites in different genres

What is your ‘guilty pleasure’ song? The song you don’t turn up too loud so you aren’t embarrassed that you like it?
Born to be Wild… AND I play it loud!

Top 5 MC’s? (IN ORDER)
Rakim, Andre 3000, Nas, Lauryn Hill, Jadakiss,

What do you do to relax?
Being a Fine Artists at heart gives me multiple outlets for relaxing such as creating & designing jewelry, paint, photography, reading and writing

What famous person do you resemble?
I used to get Halle Berry when I had short hair, Chilli when I was younger with long hair and here recently I get Raven Symone? Go figure

How did you get started as a DJ?
I was hanging with a crew of Detroit artists of various mediums in high school and Hip-Hop(DJing, MCing, Breaking & Graffiti) was what we did on the weekends at parties or in their dorms.

Who was the first person to hire you as a DJ?
Baye Perry was the first to take a chance on this radio newbie! Viva La Next Level!!

Other career stats:
I am a contributing writer for the Toledo Free Press Star, my column ‘On The Rox’ can be read bi-weekly. When I am not on the radio I love to work as a freelance photographer and image consultant/stylist. Painting is one of my favorite past times and I am a silversmith/metalsmith and creating jewelry has been a passion of mine since I started beading as a little girl. Check out my jewelry at Jewelrybymartini.com.

How do YOU make The Juice FM 107.3 “The People’s Station”?
I love to make my listeners day even if its just playing their favorite song or shouting them out for Birthdays or other special occasions. I come in to work for them! I love my listeners!