Miss Jones (radio personality)
| Miss Jones | |
|---|---|
| Birth name | Tarsha Jones |
| Origin | New York City, New York |
| Genres | R&B |
| Years active | 1994–present |
| Labels | Tommy Boy, Motown |
| Associated acts | Doug E. Fresh, AZ, Big L |
Tarsha Jones, better known as Miss Jones, is a former R&B artist and radio personality. Miss Jones is currently the host of Jonesy In the Morning, a morning show that airs nationally on MissJonesRadio.Net. Jones previously worked for Hot 97 until 2008 and WUSL Power 99Fm until 2011. Produced by Miss Jones, Jonesy In the Morning is a nationally syndicated urban morning show, and can be heard streaming online on weekday mornings at www.MissJonesRadio.Net 6am-10am Eastern.
Jones graduated with honors from the Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and Performing Arts, having majored in classical music. She also has a bachelor's degree in music from Syracuse University. After graduating from college, she worked as a long-distance operator.
Before becoming host of Hot 97's Miss Jones in the Morning show, Jones reported music industry gossip for the Star and Buc Wild morning show on Hot 97.
She wrote an autobiography, Have You Met Miss Jones?: The Life and Loves of Radio's Most Controversial Diva, in 2007, published by Random House.
On June 28, 2008, Hot 97's contract with Miss Jones expired. Radio show Big Boy's Neighborhood, hosted by Big Boy and MTV VJ Liz Hernandez, replaced Jones' former morning show. Emmis Communications hired Miss Jones back in 2010 to do weekends at sister station Kiss-FM which was a prequel to Jones taking over mornings at NYC's 98.7 Kiss-FM. that upcoming year however Clear Channel objected to the move and the deal fell through.
In January 2012 Miss Jones developed and launched the now defunct Jonesyradio.com.
During the week of January 17, 2005, the Miss Jones in the Morning Show played a song called USA for Indonesia, which mocked the victims of the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami. The song referred to the hundreds of thousands who died in the tsunami as chinks, and made light of children rendered parentless by the disaster. Miss Jones continued to play the song every day for a week, despite the protest of another co-host, Miss Info, who said that she wasn’t comfortable with the song and wanted them to stop playing it. Miss Jones accused Miss Info of feeling “superior, probably because [she’s] Asian”. Jones later issued an apology and was suspended for two weeks, with her pay going to support tsunami relief.
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