Eddie Stubbs, Date of Birth, Place of Birth
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American radio personality
Date of Birth: 25-Nov-1961
Place of Birth: Gaithersburg, Maryland, United States
Profession: radio personality
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius 
About Eddie Stubbs
- Eddie Stubbs (born November 25, 1961) is a radio disc jockey broadcasting old-style country music on WSM, a radio station with a nighttime clear channel signal broadcast from Nashville, Tennessee, United States.
- He is also one of two regular announcers for the long-running Grand Ole Opry carried on WSM on Tuesday, Friday and Saturday nights. He is on the air on weekday evenings from 7 pm to midnight, Central Time, on WSM.
- WSM's powerful nighttime clear channel signal allows WSM to be heard in a large part of the US and Canada.
- As a result, Stubbs has many regular listeners in all parts of the US and Canada in areas far away from Nashville. A fifth-generation resident of Montgomery County, Maryland, he graduated from Gaithersburg High School and became a fiddle player with a traditional bluegrass band, The Johnson Mountain Boys.
- After a decade, the band split up and Stubbs has only played sporadically since.
- Stubbs' first radio job was a weekly bluegrass show for WYII in Williamsport, Maryland, in 1983 where he earned $20 per program.
- In 1984, he was hired by WAMU in Washington, D.C.
- and worked alongside the veteran country deejay Gary Henderson.
- He received his own show in 1990 but continued to do odd-jobs such as house-painting to supplement his income.
- "No one gets rich in radio", he observed.
- The Eddie Stubbs Show on WAMU was discontinued in April 2007.He developed a friendship with the country singer Kitty Wells and her husband, the guitar player and singer Johnnie Wright, and played with them during D.C.
- area appearances.
- They eventually convinced Stubbs to move to Nashville in 1995 and join them full-time.
- But within seventeen days of arriving in the country music capital, he was hired by The Grand Ole Opry as a regular announcer.
- "Five people up for the job, and the new kid in town gets the gig? If that's not God, I don't know what is," said Stubbs.In 2002, Stubbs was named the Country Music Association's Large Market Air Personality of the Year.
- The alternative weekly, Nashville Scene, named him Best Country Deejay, and he has also been listed in Nashville Life Magazine's "100 Coolest People".
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