Zara Janniere

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The Ron Muschette Story Part 1
105.1
Host: Tamara McKayle
Guest: Ron Muschette
Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S76Iz41uhJA&t=436s
3:40

A: So jumping right into your story I mean you are phenomenal there is no question as to who is
the king of radio in Jamaica. And you have a fine legacy and a lot of persons wanted to know
like where did you really start? Where did all of this come from? Because was this like from
when you were a little boy you always knew that you wanted to be on radio tell me about
yourself

B: Okay tell you about myself=

A: =Yes and how you grew up and a dat

B: Well I am me so um about myself well I was born in white house Westmoreland and my
earliest memory one thing I remember about myself um well I remember like where I grew up up
in the hills and there was like a bar next door to my house so the bigger people there they used to
tell me that when I was little I always go up to the bar and they would always play music and I
guess i was a child that love music so… radio I didn't now anything about radio or anything like
that but my life changed I remember when I was about five six umm me and my friend Bobrick
we used sit down and play this game every time rain fall we used to slide on the veranda and
Bobrick used to say like bwoy le wi go daydream so we used to si dung and dream like but we
used to always dream about houses and car when we would grow up but there was no career path
but unfortunately bobby died a few years ago but rest in peace we used to call her big gyal but
she was a big influence in my life she was like a next door ( like a sister to me)

A: (Mhm)

B: But life really changed when I was about nine umm I was I was shipped off to Montego bay
to go live umm with my brother especially cause my brother he was about twenty-five at the time
he had a job um and he would probably tell my mom that you now I I that my.. I guess he’d
probably tell her that you know I think he can be something if we get him out of White (House)
so

A: (House)
B: I went to live with my brother and umm I remember the first thing I wanted to be was that my
brother always brought me to the airport so I always wanted to be a pilot cause all I did was go to
the airport every day and watch planes I would go back home and draw plane and I just wanted
to be a pilot but then my brother love music and every day he would just play music n the radio..
and I used to just hear people on the radio and stuff I used to like the man name Barry G and
couple other people I used to hear. But then one day my brother came home early and said he
was going to a show or something he and his friend Rock so they brought me out there and there
was this man out there on the mic talking and you know.. and I don’t know I just went home
after that and I just said umm I don’t know

A: You just started practicing=

B: =Yeah I just started practicing and the piloting just started leaving me and I just said that hey=

A: =Wow so because you have such a very unique voice I mean obviously you were

B: oh that's a whole story right there

A: Hhhhhh

B: that's another chapter

A: But you were obviously a young child and (the time)

B: (mhm)

A and I mean even when you mention in terms of daydreaming wow that’s amazing so

B: yeah I was probably about seven eight them time deh

A: So you were a young child and then hearing the likes of Barry G and other radio personalities
like Allan Magnus and all of those people

B: Allan Allan Magnus was I heard Allan more than Barry G because every relative house you
went to you hear Allan Magnus.. Allan Magnus so you used to know Allan Magnus was like the
clock for us as a kid growing up Allan is the greatest you know wah I mean so you know um for
use you hear calypso corner you hear star scope as a little child you know if bbc news come on
and you out a di yard you know you late for school school school starts eight thirty and it's like
half an hour walk from where you live so you bbc news and it catch you know it's over man you
late so um I used to hear Allan more than Barry G but I guess alright let me explain to you what
happened to me growing up it’s like um.. when I when I got to Montego bay um I just knew that
I love music so I used to hear a lot of music and then lieutenant Stichie and Papa San and them
man dere were like so me just dj and so every little concert if you cah get a man fi go talk pon it
like Barry G me ago dj pon it so I had to be in the show so I was a dj and a mc in one

A: Hhhhhh

B: Because of the influences you know cause these are the people that I like so but then when I
started going to high school I started to be more of an mc but then started to listening people on
the radio and um there's one particular gentleman that I still hear on the radio but he made me
change my mind to be who I am today because I remember when I had one walk-man stereo
coming home from school and I used to listen to the radio and I listen Winston Williams Barry G
everybody else and there was one particular man I used hear now and then on the radio like he
would get a little one shift now and again I remember one day going home from school and I
said I don't want to grow up to be like him

A: mhmmm?

B: Me nah call him name but I still hear him because my mom listens to other radio stations so I
still hear him a lot and I think he has improved over time but me nah call him name because I
don't want him to feel disrespected you know so I just said to myself when I grow up I want to be
number one