Tony Humphries DJ'ed on 98.7 KISS FM WRKS New York from '81 until the early 90s. He was also a resident DJ at Zanzibar in Newark, NJ from '82 to the early 90s, initially nurtured by DJ Larry Patterson. Stylistically, Zanzibar was an offshoot in the family tree of the Paradise Garage, whose legendary DJ was Larry Levan.
Garage and House are non-identical twins, genres stemming from friends Larry Levan and Frankie Knuckles, respectively. House is more widely recognized, but Garage was born first. Both arose out of the Disco and Post-Disco eras.
Tony's radio mastermixes from '89 and '90 exemplify the climax of Garage, a little-known yet influential genre that was accelerating when its birthplace closed in '87, the Paradise Garage.
Garage and House nurtured the sound heard in the commercially canonized House jams of the early 90s (e.g. CeCe Peniston, Madonna, Marky Mark, C+C Music Factory).
Before Hot97, Wendy Williams was at WRKS, her third radio gig after college.