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Bio

Ryan Somers, aka R$ $mooth grew up in Beechville, Nova Scotia. Music was always a part of his life growing up & he developed a love of Radio at an early age. By the age of 13, he started getting into DJing, including DJing a Junior High dance in Grade 8. In 1993, he became a volunteer Programmer at Dalhousie University's Campus-Community station, CKDU, co-hosting a show called "Funk-N-Effect" with Kendall Mulder, aka "DJ Delite". The name "R$ $mooth" was given to him in 1994 by two of his childhood friends, Danielle Jackson & Yvette Jarvis.
Ryan wanted to take Radio seriously & wanted to be a trained professional, so he enrolled in the Nova Scotia Community College program, Radio & Television Arts in 1996. He graduated in 1998 & started the Radio show, "$mooth Groove$" in June of that year, a show that he continues to host to this day.
He became the Radio Broadcast Technician for the University of King's College's Journalism program in 1999, a position he held until 2003. In 2004, he was hired as a Producer & On-Air Announcer for Metro Radio Group, for stations such as C100 & 101.3 The Bounce (which is now Virgin Radio).
Being a part of the Radio, DJ & Music industry led to many opportunities such as meeting & interviewing many artists. He has accumulated many Radio ID's from the likes of Drake, Kanye West, 50 Cent, Snoop Dogg, Akon, Vivica Fox, Ne-Yo & many, many more.
He has DJ'd many concerts, sporting events, clubs, weddings, private parties, etc. He has DJ'd in Jamaica, Washington D.C., Atlanta, Boston & all over Canada in places such as Toronto, Montreal, Vancouver, Ottawa, etc.
The Radio student became the Radio teacher as Ryan succeeded his former Radio Instructor, Dave Bannerman, in November of 2017, becoming the Radio Instructor for the Radio- Television-Journalism program at NSCC Ivany campus, the very same program he graduated from.
These days, you can still catch him DJing frequently at some of the hottest events in Nova Scotia. Tune into CKDU 88.1 FM (www.ckdu.ca ) Sundays at 5pm to hear his show, "$mooth Groove$", a show that will enter it's 4th decade on the air in 2020.