Ezekiel Gray, known as The Man Ezeke, was a Jamaican

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and musician. He was born in

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. Gray began his career at

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, a

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, in the 1980s. He subsequently presented the ''Jammin' Oldies'' Saturday night show on

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. In October 1990, he began presenting a

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show called ''The Sunshine Show'' on

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on Wednesday nights. On 3 January 1993, Gray took over the Sunday lunchtime slot previously presented by

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. He was the first black presenter with a regular daytime slot on the station. Gray died in Jamaica in March 2022. He had a wife and two children.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Man Ezeke 20th-century births 2022 deaths Jamaican radio presenters BBC Radio 1 presenters People from Montego Bay