Tawn Mastery
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Tawn Mastery is a disc jockey, music video producer, one of rock radio's top media personalities. Currently, she hosts a daily show on Sirius Satellite Radio's Hair Nation Channel 23, 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. Eastern time, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Pacific time.
Mastery is heard nationally on Westwood One Entertainment's Absolutely Live High Voltage every other week. Mastery hosts, writes, produces and syndicates her own radio specials, RockZone and Sammy Hagar's Cabo Wabo Happy Hour, through Mastery Productions, Inc. She does voice-overs, has owned her own video production company, Ladies In Production Services, and has written a cookbook, Eat This.
[edit] Education
Mastery studied broadcasting at Ron Bailie's School of Broadcast in San Francisco, California.
[edit] Career
Mastery has hosted radio shows in California for KNAC in Long Beach, KLSX in Los Angeles, KMEL in San Francisco, and KSJO in San Jose, before appearing on KUFO in Portland, Oregon, in the late 1990s, and at KXXR in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Mastery hosted MTV's stringer reports when the cable TV music channel first launched. She also hosted television specials for MTV and local Los Angeles television programs, and starred as the featured host for the Metal Head Video Magazine series.
In film, Tawn has appeared as herself in The Blues Brothers, Heavy Metal Thunder and Mud and The Decline of Western Civilization, Part II: The Metal Years.
Mastery has produced music videos including the Scorpions' "No One Like You", Greg Kihn's "Happy Man", and Romeo Void's "Never Say Never".
[edit] External links
- MetalSludge.tv - '20 Questions with DJ Tawn Mastery'
- MusicNewsNashville.com - 'Sammy Hagar To Host "Sammy's Cabo Wabo Happy Hour" Radio Show With Radio Veteran Tawn Mastery And Van Halen Bassist Michael Anthony' (April 19, 2006)
- WestwoodOne.com - 'Tawn Mastery'
