On Sunday 30th September 1990 my personal journey began when I started presenting THE CARIBBEAN AFFAIR at 8.02pm.  I remember arriving at 16-18 Trinity Gardens at about 5.45pm and watching the Cosby Show in the news room to settle my nerves whilst Jigs was doing his Sunday show.   I started the show with The Mighty Sparrow’s Let the Music Play and here I am 30 years down the line still enjoying my life as MARTIN JAY.

Choice FM Radio station gave me the opportunity to travel, to learn real radio and also the opportunity to meet some great people.   Dennis Brown, Freddie McGregor, Will Smith, Denzel Washington, Rhianna, Samuel L Jackson, LL Cool J, Usher, Alicia Keys, Beyonce, Mary J Blige, Jennifer Lopez, Chris Rock, Jamie Foxx and P Diddy are just a few of the celebrities that I have had the honour of interviewing.  It goes without saying that the list of SOCA artists I have met on my journey is way too vast for me to even attempt listing them here but it is safe to say that I have interviewed most of them.

When my good friend Daddy Ernie told me about the heritage blue plaque for Choice FM I was so happy that our legacy was finally going to be set in stone and I have enjoyed the last couple of months of catching up with old Choice FM colleagues.  My last ever show on Choice FM was my 23rd Anniversary celebration and I am so glad that I am able to share that recording with you.

MY LAST SHOW ON CHOICE FM

For the Choice FM Heritage Plaque to go up there is an element of cost and some of the original Choice FM members thought it would be a good idea to create a Go Fund Me Page to raise those funds and if we were to raise anything past what we needed for the plaque then we would donate the rest of the money to the ACLT Charity.    From a personal level I could not be happier as I have supported the ACLT Charity since 1996 and continued to support and raise money for it even after my days at Choice FM. 

On Sunday September 6th Daddy Ernie, myself and a few other Choice FM members will be doing a symbolic 10 mile fund raising walk.  We will start at Trinity Gardens and walk to 291-299 Borough High Street SE1 which is where we moved to in 1999.   From Borough High Street we will walk to Leicester Square which is where we moved to in late 2004.   From Leicester Square we will come back home to Trinity Gardens as the finale of our 10 mile walk.

The walk will begin at 12pm midday and whilst we cannot ask you to join us on the walk we can ask you to share in this special event by joining a special Choice FM Zoom Broadcast to coincide with our walk. To find out more about this follow @choicefmplaque on Instagram, Facebook and Twitter.

Finally if you would like to donate to this very special and worthy cause then click on the link below.    Thank you very much for reading and please feel free to share this with anyone that has fond memories of the great Choice FM radio station.

LET'S SMASH THE TARGET

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