Jeremy Rees (born 1963) is a Welsh radio presenter and voice-over artist. He currently heard on Radio Cardiff in South Wales.[1]
Rees was born in Morriston, Swansea and grew up in the Lliw Valley. He left Wales in 1983 to become a community worker in Bradford, West Yorkshire before moving to London where he spent 21 years working in mental health and community development. He returned to live in Wales in 2007 and now resides in Cardiff.[2]
Rees joined Radio Cardiff on its official launch in 2007 as a newsreader and interviewer. He was a co-presenter on the station's flagship magazine programme, Lunchbreak until July 2008 and continues to do occasional interviews on its successor News, Views & Interviews. He still presents the station's main news bulletins on Thursdays and Fridays.
He presented the Saturday afternoon sports programme Ready Steady Score! [3] until September 2009 when he took over the 7:00–9:00am slot on Saturday mornings with the Soulful Saturday Breakfast featuring classic soul, jazz and lover's rock (reggae) and including a weekly live 'unplugged' slot where local singers & bands perform acoustically and discuss their musical influences.[4]
Rees was also writer/producer for the twenty-two part music profile series Legends in 2008 which featured iconic performers in the soul, jazz, reggae and R&B genres. His other shows for the station include : Radio Cardiff Soul Cellar (Northern Soul retrospective) and The Rhythm of Life (interviews with Cardiff characters giving personal perspectives of the City interspersed with favourite music tracks).
Away from Radio Cardiff, Rees remains active in the community development field in Wales.
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