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CKDU - Ryan Somers aka R$ $mooth 

Ryan Somers, aka R$ $mooth, grew up in Beechville, Nova Scotia. Music was always a part of his life growing up, and he developed a love of radio at an early age. By the age of 13, he started getting into DJing, including DJing a junior high dance in grade 8. In 1993, he became a volunteer programmer at Dalhousie University’s campus-community station, CKDU, co-hosting a show called Funk-N-Effect with Kendall Mulder, aka “DJ Delite.” The name “R$ $mooth” was given to him in 1994 by two of his childhood friends, Danielle Jackson and Yvette Jarvis.

Ryan wanted to take radio seriously and become a trained professional, so he enrolled in the Nova Scotia Community College program, Radio & Television Arts, in 1996. He graduated in 1998 and started the radio show $mooth Groove$in June of that year, a show he continues to host to this day.

He became the radio broadcast technician for the University of King’s College journalism program in 1999, a position he held until 2003. In 2004, he was hired as a producer and on-air announcer for Metro Radio Group, working for stations such as C100 and 101.3 The Bounce (now Virgin Radio).

Being a part of the radio, DJ, and music industry led to many opportunities, including meeting and interviewing numerous artists. He has accumulated many radio IDs from artists such as Drake, Kanye West, 50 Cent, Snoop Dogg, Akon, Killer Mike, Vivica Fox, Ne-Yo, and many more.

He has DJ’d for concerts, sporting events, clubs, weddings, private parties, and more. His DJ career has taken him to Jamaica, Washington D.C., Atlanta, Boston, and across Canada, including Toronto, Montreal, Vancouver, and Ottawa.

The radio student became the radio teacher when Ryan succeeded his former radio instructor, Dave Bannerman, in November 2017, becoming the radio instructor for the Radio-Television-Journalism program at NSCC Ivany Campus—the very same program he graduated from.

These days, you can still catch him DJing frequently at some of the hottest events in Nova Scotia. Tune into CKDU 88.1 FM (www.ckdu.ca) on Sundays at 4 PM (3 PM EST) to hear his show, $mooth Groove$, a program now in its fourth decade on the air.

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