You hear her voice on the radio, reading out traffic reports, introducing your favourite tunes and, if she wanted to, Claressa Monteiro could also entertain you by breaking out into song in a spontaneous live performance. The Kiss92 DJ is also an award-winning jazz artist with a music career spanning three decades. In 2006, she turned DJ with Gold 905FM, a station which was also playing her songs at that time.
Monteiro’s Kiss92 colleagues John Klass and Joshua Simon, as well as Vanessa Fernandez of Lush 99.5FM, are also singers, musicians and songwriters in their own right. All of them say there is no conflict of interest between their dual roles, to promote music and to make music, although Klass and Simon admit their DJ jobs have helped them as musicians.
