50 / 50 spoke with Miss C Brown a well-known female DJ in Birmingham to get her thoughts .
Photograph by Habiba Khanam
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Miss C Brown How did you start getting involved in DJ ’ ing ?
Well it was some years ago , I did a course at South Birmingham College , it was a Media and Radio course , it kind of just happened from there . I was really interested in music , I ’ ve always been interested in music , and I ’ ve always made my own tapes . I did a little bit of radio there and from there I was like yeah man I ’ m gonna do this and that ’ s how it kind of all started .
When you started the course at South Birmingham College , how many girls where on the course with you ?
You know , to be fair there was quite a few of us , but they were more interested in the filming side of things , whereas I was more interested in the DJ ’ ing and the Radio side of things .
When you finished the course what was your next goal ?
I just wanted to do more work on Radio , I went to Uni , got myself on Pirate Radio , I knew the guy who owned the station so asked him to be on his station , he asked if I had any experience , at the time I didn ’ t . He was cool with it , and was even cool with me being a female . That was it , that was the start , and I literally found my way around radio .
Wow , that ’ s interesting that the guy who owned the station was cool with you being a female , as usually its hard for a female DJ to get regular club bookings , to get on radio , so in terms of after you got on radio , what difficulties did you face if any , and how did you overcome them ? cont ...
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