Tim Westwood
| Tim Westwood | |
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Westwood in 2010
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| Background information | |
| Born |
3 October 1957 Lowestoft, Suffolk, England |
| Genres | Hip hop, grime, R&B, dancehall, bashment, reggae |
| Occupation(s) | Radio DJ, television presenter |
| Years active | 1980–present |
| Labels | Mercury |
| Website | Official website |
Tim Westwood (born 3 October 1957) is an English DJ and presenter of radio and television. He is often referred to by other DJs and artists appearing on his shows simply as Westwood. He presented the UK version of the MTV show Pimp My Ride. In 2013, Westwood left BBC Radio 1 and BBC Radio 1Xtra after nearly twenty years and returned to Capital Radio.
The son of Bill Westwood, former Anglican Bishop of Peterborough, Westwood grew up around East Anglia, attending the independent Norwich School, before later attending a local comprehensive.
During his career Westwood has DJed for many radio stations, including the newly formed radio stations Kiss FM (which he co-owned) and LWR in the 1980s, followed by mainstream station Capital FM (from 1987). In December 1994, following a shake up of Radio 1 by the then chief executive Matthew Bannister, he was given the new and somewhat innovative national Radio 1 Rap Show. He was the Radio 1 Rap Show's first presenter and has been its only permanent presenter; he is now one of Radio 1's longest-serving broadcasters.
His first broadcast on a legal station appears to have been on 23 March 1985, when he was already working as a pirate DJ. He was a guest on a BBC World Service programme called Meridian where he discussed early hip-hop culture in London. After appearing in the 1987 BBC Open Space documentary Bad Meaning Good, which was an early work of his own company Justice Entertainment, he achieved TV exposure in the late 1980s on the ITV programme Night Network, produced by London Weekend Television.
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