Andy Kershaw obituary
Broadcaster who brought world music to a mainstream audience on BBC Radio 1 and travelled widely to report on conflict and the cultures that fascinated him
Andy Kershaw, who has died aged 66 after undergoing treatment for cancer, made his name as a DJ on BBC Radio 1 by bringing world music to a wide audience, and established himself as a journalist reporting for radio on wars and horrors in far-flung places.
“I think initially Radio 1 wanted another [John] Peel,” he told the Independent in 2012, “but I got quickly bored of those awful, insipid demo tapes I was receiving from Liverpudlian indie acts, especially as I was beginning to discover properly fantastic, amazing music from Malawi, the Congo, South Africa.”
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