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Kieno Kammies believes if it weren’t for his legendary coffee making skills, he would not be here talking to you today. I started out in this industry making tea and coffee @ Reuters International, a skill that eventually saw me becoming a cameraman, Video editor, producer, working for the likes of Reuters, Worldwide TV News and the SABC (don't mention the last fact to anyone). I moved into radio by using those same coffee making skills, remaining in this area of broadcasting for the past 13 years, with me eventually doing one of the biggest music breakfast shows, successfully, in South Africa. Today I am living my passion, news and talk, by returning to a place I prefer calling home, Talk Radio 702 and 567 CapeTalk. After all my experience I have come to learn one thing about broadcasting, as I alter a famous quote, by saying: "It is better to broadcast by one's self to a few people, than to broadcast to millions, without one's self" - Me. No matter how prestigious the broadcasting job... if you cannot be yourself in that job, you won't enjoy it.
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| A catholic priest, an engineer, a detective... Then I woke up because sitting in one place for 8 hours a day and abstinence forever did not appeal to me, so I decided to do something exciting and ever changing, so here I am - Talk Radio above any other type of radio. |
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| What soothes you? |
| Playing cricket and other sports with my sons Cameron and Tyler; being under the duvet, with a great thunderstorm raging; being in the bush in a tent at 2am, just lying awake and listening to everything, or at the coast listening to the waves racing to shore. |
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| What irks you? |
| Eskom; People who say they'll do something, then they don't. For example people who say we'll call you back before the end of work today... |
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| Screw it, Let's do it - Richard Branson, and Raymond Ackerman's Listening to Grasshoppers Jump. There are those who speak and those who do, and these books inspire me to do. |
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| Love Rock Music, Lincoln Park, Seether, Hinder, Bon Jovi, Nickelback etc etc. Then there’s the occasional pop that surprises: Leona Lewis - Bleeding Love, 1 only 1 of Britney Spears latest songs (forget the name tho). Some classical music / Some Cafe Del Mar / Nora Jones, when I wanna relax. Then there's the cross-over rock/rap music, like the collaboration between Lincoln Park and Jay Z (No not Zuma, the other one). |
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| My Mom, My Dad, My Sis, and especially my two sons, Tyler and Cameron. |
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| Looking in my Boys' eyes, and wondering what the future holds then realising my actions or lack thereof can seriously impact on their lives. |
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| Nope but I'm looking to publish one or two soon. One in line with my love for Low GI, and the other inspirational (can't go into too much detail) ... Don't wanna give u any ideas ;-) |
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| When I was still doing my show on 702 and Tito Mboweni called in to ask my advice, when his head of security was short. Speechless for a split-second though, if that counts. |
| Cliché, here we come... Nelson Mandela, and then of course there is The Pope, I have some nagging questions I'd like to ask him, and hopefully get a straight answer ... Questions that have been nagging me as a catholic, albeit not staunch, but catholic nonetheless. |
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