Hip Hop

Image	DJ Name	Music Style	MP3	Book
	Big Ted	Hip Hop
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Big Ted

Kiss 100 FM

The gift of an FM radio on his 13th birthday opened up the world of urban music to a young Big Ted in a big way. Listening to early 80s' pirate radio stations like LWR, Solar, JFM, Horizon and Kiss 100 FM, Big Ted quickly found his passion for music and his love for hip hop.

This burgeoning love lead MOBO nominee, Big Ted to Liberty Grooves and managing the legendary hip hop store. Later, he'd go on to holding the fort at the famed Deal Real records in the heart of London.

In 1996, the MOBO nominated Big Ted began his TV career as a presenter on cable and satellite channel, Trouble. From breakfast shows to live video request shows to interviews, Big Ted filled the screen with Destiny's Child, Tyrese, Damage and a galaxy of urban emergents. Today, you can catch him on the Smooth Groves Chart Show (28 times a week) on both Kiss TV and Hits TV (on cable & satelite).

In 1999 with MOBO 2003 winner, dj partner Shortee Blitz, Big Ted joined Kiss100 FM to present two weekly two hour hip hop shows. Their shows regularly attract the biggest hip hop names on the planet. Five years on, the show has a massive listenership, plus a clutch of awards and nominations - Best Specialist Radio Show at the Sony Awards, three consecutive Best Radio Show Awards at the UK Hip Hop Awards and Lyric Pad - Best Radio Show 2004, to name just a few.

Big Ted and his record boxes are no strangers to travel, having made national stops in every region of the UK and Ireland at club nights and concerts alike. Internationally, Big Ted has toured Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Poland, Kenya, Uganda and South Africa have been witness to his dj skills.

Currently, his tour duties with MOBO winning hip hop artist Blak Twang have taken him to stages across the UK, including festival performances at Glastonbury, Reading, Respect and Essential as well as Radio 1's Big Sunday, sharing stages with Destiny's Child, Xzibit, Ja Rule, Mis-Teeq, Busta Rhymes and Nas.

Locally Big Ted can be found DJing in and around London at his weekly residency at Trap (201 Wardour Street, W1) and clubs like Sound, Ministry or Mass. You can also catch him UK nationwide at venues The Park in Peterborough, The Event in Brighton and Club Zero in Leicester.
Big Ted is also in constant demand doing voice over work for TV and radio documentaries and adverts, including a recent documentary, this year on former heavyweight boxing Champ, Frank Bruno for Sky.

With forthcoming tours scheduled for South Africa, Canada and Japan, Big Ted continues to be in global demand. Big Ted is BIG all over! Now y'know.

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