Nina Blackwood (born September 12, 1955) is an American disc jockey and music journalist, who was the first of the original five MTV VJs. She has also been an actress and model. Read full biography of Nina Blackwood →
I worked with three people who were doing video music shows before MTV.
I'm a little bit to the left of things anyway.
Interviewing people is pretty natural for me.
My reading is always about musical biographies. I have an innate interest and passion for that.
Now that the 90's are over and more time has gone by, the 80's sound fresh again.
People that really know me will tell you that I am not a video vixen.
The heyday of video music was the mid 80's.
We put all these things together into a tangible product that is The Rock N' Roll Mystery Tour.
When I worked for Entertainment Tonight I got to emcee Paul McCartney's press conference.
Absolute 80's is three hours of mainstream 80's music. I also do New Wave Nation that is more cutting edge. It is more punk stuff from the... →