Personalities

Afsheen Foroozan

Co-host of the Filipino American National News. Sundays from 9:00-9:30 p.m.

Ahmed Wassie

Al McFarlane

Editorial Mission:
Information, Instruction, Inspiration in a user-friendly, culturally relevant communications vehicle

Business Mission:
Providing preferred access to Black consumers for businesses, agencies, and organizations

Ana F. Ousie

Host of Oromo Community Radio.

Becky Warren

Blanche

Brad Wrolstad

Brad has been with KFAI since 2005 and joined the African Rhythms team in 2011. Surface Noise debuted in August 2017.

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Brian Westley

Brian Westley is the co-host of Shockwave.

Bunkhean Chhun

Host of Khmers in Minnesota Program

Cap'n Cozy Little

Elmar L. Romain, as Capt. 2much Freetime, d.j. cozy little (the newly promoted Cap'n!) and Sherwood B. Funn and various other handles, launched the Rocket Ship Ska Trip on KFAI way back in the late '90s when his ska collection was quite a bit slimmer than it has since become.

Casey

Charlie Thayer

Chris Edwards

Music today has gotten way too serious. There are too many sanctimonious yahoos out there who think they are going to change the world with their boring music.

The Fun Time Music Festival has no statements to make, no axe to grind and no agenda to promote, except one--it is time to start having fun again!

Conor Dougherty

Producer, Social Media, Father.

Cyn Collins

KFAI Spin With Cyn DJ, (and former Dig Up the Roots co-host), Cyn Collins is the author of West Bank Boogie, and a music, arts and culture journalist for various Twin Cities publications such as Star Tribune, City Pages, Twin Cities Daily Planet, TC METRO, Pulse, her blog "Cyndications" and more.

Dan Henry

Record dork, pizza parlor enthusiast and aspiring astronaut. I also like popcorn and baseball.

Dana Bogema

Dana Bogema is a Twin Cities native and bon vivant. She runs DBdesigns, an online marketing business, hosts Bonjour Minnesota, KFAI’s French culture and music program (Tuesdays at 8pm!), and does voice work and acting in a variety of Twin Cities productions.

David Cummings

Rockin' in Rhythm
Monday 2:00 to 4:00PM
Hosted by David Cummings
Tired of the every day grind. Want to live a life of romantic adventure, want to get away from it all? Then, we offer you Rockin' in Rhythm.

Dee Henry Williams

Grand Deeva! brings to the early Saturday morning listeners a Deeva Style program, A Great Blend of Watercolors. She slams Blues, Southern R&B, Ol Skool, and the Deeva Moment featuring  a "hit" of Gospel.  mo' fun!

Listen up every Saturday from 6:00~9:00 A.M. for the best in music from the Diaspora and beyond.

DJ Hooker

DJ Lady Em

Doc

A self described 'professional weirdo' Doc is a musician, writer, and teaching artist based in the Twin Cities. A former contributer with City Pages, Doc currently sits on the Board of Directors at KFAI and is a personality/stage manager for the Minnesota Rollergirls.

Doug "The Thug" deMille

Douglas Solomon aka Dewglass

e.g. bailey

Multidisciplinary artist, e.g. bailey, is an actor, spoken word artist, filmmaker, playwright and producer. Born in Saclepea, Liberia, he has lived in the United States since 1979.

Ellen Stanley

Ellen Stanley began her radio journey while a student at Oberlin College, where she hosted a women's music program for four years. She has been hosting the long-running Womenfolk since Fall, 2002. As a banjo player, publicist and music writer, Ellen brings an insider's perspective to the music with exclusive interviews, live guests and tasty bits of fun folk trivia.

Eric Fifteen

a.k.a. Eric Cried Softly, Secret Agent Cried Softly, Smoove E Cried Softly Man, and a series of other inaccurate names. Eric likes to tell really annoying jokes that usually involve puns, talk in ridiculous voices and occasional impressions of people, and he loves to play lots of obscure underground rock music that sounds like cardboard.

Eric Mohring

Eric Mohring is a fiddle and mandolin player from Minneapolis, Minnesota. Eric has performed Cajun music for over 20 years. He is a nationally recognized Cajun fiddler whose fluency in French contributes to his authentic Cajun vocals. He has worked as a fiddle instructor at Augusta Cajun Week in Elkins, West Virginia, and at Folklore Village in Dodgeville, Wisconsin.

Ethan "Mr. Music" Horace

Ethan Horace better known as Mr. Music is a music and film loving personality here at KFAI FM. He has been at KFAI FM for over 3 years. Having hosted the popular show "The Power Hour 1.7" with DJ Enferno and his latest series "The Power Hour 2.0". He is also currently the producer of the popular Somali Link Radio Show. Mr. Music has shown his love for community , film, and music.

Frederic Le Titi des Halles

Bonjour Minnesota
KFAI, 1808 Riverside Avenue, Minneapolis, MN 55454 Tel: 612-341-3144
Long story shorty, I am awesome. More later.
Paris native, I moved to MN in 2000 to follow LOVE.
I love a lot of different kind of music.

Georgia

I host a weekly program called Sonic Pleasure on KFAI.  Since its debut on September 4 2000, the format for the show is playing 60s influenced rock from the 70s to the present from 2 AM to 3:30 AM.  During the second half of the show, I play 1960s garage & psychedelic rock.  I occasionally throw in some surf, electronica and indie pop, even some late 50s stuff.  I also do some video work on

Glen Leslie

A vinyl enthusiast who plays records on the air.

Ian Graham Leask

Ian Graham Leask has been the producer and co-host of "Write On! Radio" for many years. He grew up with magnificent storytellers and has been in the world of literature all his life. He received a masters with an emphasis on writing from the university of Minnesota, where he also worked towards a PhD, an endeavor which has been on hold for many years.

Jacquie "LadyJ Griot" Maddix

          Inducted into the 2015 Minnesota Blues Hall of Fame, Jacquie Maddix and her band "Lady J Griot & Her Root Doctors"  work Root Wisdom from the Elders Circle

Janis Lane-Ewart

Born and raised in a rhythm and blues-oriented household in Chicago, Janis Lane-Ewart came to her passion for jazz as a young college student and went on to work in arts administration with a jazz focus.

Jelil Abdella

Host of Voice of Oromiyaa

Jessie Marie Hausman

Jessie Hausman has been a producer and co-host of "Write On! Radio" since February 2016. She has a master's degree in English Education from the University of Minnesota and a bachelor's degree with a writing concentration from the University of St. Catherine. She's an aspiring poet with a special love for speculative fiction and fairy tales.

Jon Jon Scott

Sound Verite Radio with Jon Jon Scott & Big George
Vintage, modern & future.
a place where, jazz, soul, reggae, hip-hop, local, world music & beats culture exist together.

Joshua Weber

Jude Vales

Karl Smelker

Ken Hippler

Ken is a lifelong resident of the Minneapolis-St. Paul area. He has loved country music since childhood, and began collecting recordings and learning about country music at age 12. There is always more to learn. He attended Brown Institute (now Brown College) in the early 1980s.

Kevin H. Vollmers

Kevin Haebeom Vollmers is the founder of Land of Gazillion Adoptees, LLC (LGA), a multimedia company based out of Minneapolis, MN.

Koami Darrah

My goal as a volunteer at kfai since 2006 is to bring a different perspective and image of Africa through its music, tradition , culture. Feel free to drop your suggestion at jukeboxafrica@yahoo.com
Merci!

Kristina de Sacramento

Kristina de Sacramento, founder and artistic director of Anda Flamenco Company and School, began her flamenco career while living in Paris and sneaking showers at a dance studio (her only access to that American amenity!) She would also sneak a peek at a flamenco class as she left the studios, and one night, instead of just watching, she walked into tha

Laura Waterman Wittstock

Leigh Combs

Lolly Obeda

30 years of serving your soul.

Luke Andrews, your Sonic Psychonaut

What is a Sonic Psychonaut?  I'm a Mindwalker.  In your ear and down your dendrites, baby.  Jarring loose your happy juice.

Francophile, cinephile, movie music nut, crazed addict of all things Soulful, Jazzy, Funky, Groovy, Latin, Bossa, Afrobeat, Reggae, Raaga, and especially all of their electro-modern permutations and incarnations.

Lynette Reini-Grandell

Lynette Reini-Grandell has been a volunteer programmer at KFAI since 1995. She writes poetry, short fiction, and teaches English at Normandale Community College. You can contact her here.

Mara theDeath

Merged with endless feminine eons ago and since dedicated to singing the beauty and power of what once was mistakenly called "the weaker sex". And if the power of that half of humanity can be only expressed through loud and hard music - so the better!

Marcos Davila

Mark Slim Stevens

Mason Butler

- Host of Cruise Control, a rough guide to smooth music. Airing Mondays at midnight.

Micah Whetstone

Micah serves as Associate Producer & Host of the remarkably interesting Listening Lounge program when Todd Melby is up to no good. Tune in Wednesday nights at 7pm to enjoy the show.

Michael J Cyrs

Michael has been DJing through college and KFAI for over eight years.

Mike Stapp

Miss Mo

Bitten hard by the Cajun and Zydeco Bug in the late 1980's was the start of an enduring love affair with the music, culture, and people of Southwestern Louisiana. Playing this catchy dance music whether in a jam, on stage or at the KFAI studio she hopes will lift your feet and your spirits as high as it does hers.

News Volunteer

Nickolai

Nickolai is a dedicated and demanded musician of contemporary, classical and folk music. From an early age he has been studying Cello and music in his native country Bulgaria.

Ollie Stench

Former co-host of the punk rock show Rdio Riot, I now return along with former Dart Gun Radio host Abbi Allen. Together we are Vortex Radio, and early on Tuesday mornings (2:00am - 4:00am) we bring you the Radio Vortex; freeform radio with no pre-conceived idea of what we're going to do. Mostly we play records and talk.  What else is there to do that early in the morning?

Pam K.

Since 1994 Pam K. has been bringing Stone Soup to the air waves from the KFAI studios. Stone Soup airs from 10 a.m. until noon on Wednesday mornings. A great program each week bringing a huge and diverse love of music to you ears! A unique mixture of songs and thoughts from Pam's world entertains you each week on Stone Soup!

Patti Walsh

Patti served her time as president of KFAI’s Board of Directors from January of 2015 through December of 2016. She has been a volunteer since 1986 and has hosted three rock shows, So What?, Noisefactor 4, and Pop for the Unpopular.

Paul Harding

Paul brings you Foreign Currency, Fridays at 8am.

He hosted "Radio K International" on Radio K (KUOM) for 16 years during which he immersed himself in international music.

Paul Vandyke

Host of Write On Radio

Pop Wagner

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Rajib

Rajib Bahar volunteers in various community organizations around the Twin Cities. He enjoys photography & music. In his role, he brings the best of his hobby & professional skills to the station.

You'll find him playing music from all over the world, timeline, region... from oldies to 2000... from europe, mideast to Bollywood, India, Bangladesh, Nepal, etc...

Raul Escobar, Pablo Miranda, & Eric SB

Ricardo "Rico" Morales

Volunteer Reporter Engineer Host www.twitter.com/MinneapolisRico
The Morning Blend (News Updates & Original Reporting)

Robert W Morgan

Ron Thums

I co-hosted the Friday night show Radio Rumpus Room with Jean Silverberg for around 17 years, until we retired the show on May 30, 2010. That year I was named the NFCB (National Federation of Community Broadcasters) Volunteer of the Year, one of two KFAI volunteers ever to have received the award. I served as KFAI's Interim Program Director through the summer of 2011.

Roxanne Anderson

Roxanne Anderson is an activist and lover of art.

Roxanne has been engaged at KFAI for a little over 10 years.  First as an occasional guest on Leigh Combs Fresh Fruit shows.  Then as a regular segment within the broadcast.  Soon after that a regular co-host with Leigh after many years of prompting from Leigh, Dixie, Pam and Patricia, Rox finally got the engineering class completed. 

Ryan Dawes

Salah Barre

Salif Keita

Sean Hansen

Sean Hansen is a Minneapolis native and former engineer for First Person Radio & Radio Pocho.  Since 2012, he has served as executive producer and host of Modern Kicks, which can be heard every Wednesday morning at midnight.  He also writes mysteries under the name of J. D. McGregor.

 

Shashi Gupta

Simon Husbands

Simon is a true Brit from Nottingham, England, having lived in the Twin Cities since 1997. He is a musician, producer and songwriter and performer and whilst he loves music of almost any kind, he especially loves music from his native country. His show, True Brit!

Special Dark

Member of The FLEET DJ'S, Host/Producer of the award winning, THE SESSION MIXX SHOW.

Promoter, Booking Agent, Street Promotions, Performance Set Arranger, Provide Radio Edits...

If you wanted one word that describes Special Dark, “RELENTLESS” would be it.

Steely

"Steely" Dan McAllister has hosted Soul Music programs at four different public radio stations over the past 10 years, including KUMD Duluth, MN; WUPX Marquette, MI; WRHC Three Oaks, MI; and KFAI Minneapolis, MN.

Synthwaves

ANNOUNCEMENT: Synth Waves host Noah Kaufmann has officially changed the name of SynthWaves to 'The Electric Touch'. All future content can be found at the following web address: www.theelectrictouch.com. For music submissions and DJ bookings please inquire here, www.theelectrictouch.com , Thank you.

Tarik Thornton

The Original Spider J Hamilton 00

North America's Premier New Jack Radio show hosted by The Original Spider J Hamilton 00, the 'Original Ol'Skooler' takes you to New Jack City with the uptown sound of The Most Infectious Beat in Music - New Jack Swing! Passion you can hear/Music you can feel!

Todd Melby

Todd Melby is the host of the Listening Lounge. He's also a Minneapolis-based reporter and senior producer at 2 below zero, independent producers of public media.

Tony Paul

Trevor Charon

I'm a member of the collective of hosts for "Fresh Fruit" and can be heard on the fourth Thursday of each month at 7:00 PM. I started at KFAI to grow as a broadcaster and to pursue a dream of performing comedy on the radio. Our show revolves around discussions of humor, identity, and the occasional current event. Use the hashtag "FreshFruitKFAI" to participate in our discussions on Twitter!

Willie Dominguez