Radio 1Xtra: Jamz Supernova 'happy and complete' as she leaves station

"It's the extremity of an era. All I ever wanted to bash was to broadcast connected Radio 1Xtra from erstwhile I was 17."

After 12 years, DJ and presenter Jamz Supernova volition beryllium hanging up her 1Xtra headphones.

"To person been determination for truthful long, I'm feeling truly blessed and complete," she tells BBC Newsbeat.

The past amusement volition beryllium connected 27 December, with long-time person CassKidd taking implicit the slot successful the New Year.

Jamz started retired arsenic an intern astatine 1Xtra, moving her mode up done the accumulation ranks earlier becoming a presenter with her ain amusement connected the web successful 2015.

For Jamz, the presumption means "so overmuch to achromatic broadcasters, achromatic artists and achromatic creators due to the fact that there's thing similar it".

"It's been astir pushing it further and supporting achromatic alternate artists that weren't getting a look in."

"To person played truthful galore artists and supported them connected their journey, it's been incredible. I'm proud."

Jamz says the standout from her clip presenting is "having the state to beryllium capable to bash heavy dives".

"I've loved the intersection betwixt identity, practice and music.

"The achromatic and Irish peculiar that we did past twelvemonth was a truly beauteous moment," she says.

She says the summertime of 2020, with the Covid pandemic and the decease of George Floyd, was a clip which made her recognize "the powerfulness of radio".

Jamz says it was a accidental to beryllium "reflective of what the satellite was going through... creating vigor that feels truly special".

"As bittersweet arsenic it was, it was an accidental to spell connected the radio, instrumentality that corporate grief and play music that responded to that moment," she says.

"So I volition ne'er hide that."

For the idiosyncratic taking over, CassKid, it's a "weird feeling betwixt nerves and excitement".

"I conscionable can't hold to enactment my stamp and flair arsenic good arsenic my property and my euphony tastes into specified a specializer slot," helium says.

The communicative of Jamz and CassKidd makes this consciousness similar a "full ellipse moment" for the pair.

"I've known [him] since helium was 16. And we've had this brainsick travel of him being my intern," Jamz says.

"We some went to a younker vigor presumption called Reprezent Radio. He started connected my amusement arsenic a shaper to assistance maine retired and we were some into the aforesaid music."

Having followed that travel of climbing the ladder herself, Jamz pushed CassKidd to beryllium his champion and advised him to marque himself "indispensable".

She got him to travel to the workplace with her each Tuesday nighttime and paid for his taxi home.

All she asked successful instrumentality was to "just shadiness everything that's happening".

"Our lives done vigor person been intertwining with each other. It really flips, 1 infinitesimal I'm the mentor. And he's the mentee. And sometimes he's my mentor and I'm his mentee."

Like with immoderate passing of the baton, determination has been proposal from Jamz to CassKid.

"It was to astir disregard everything that I've done to marque it his own," Jamz says.

And that's precisely what helium plans to do.

"I don't lone DJ and broadcast, I'm making euphony arsenic well. And I decidedly privation to get that crossed connected radio," CassKidd says.

"I privation to harvester each of those worlds unneurotic to conscionable bring a antithetic listening acquisition to the show."

"Listen each and each Tuesday. The words continue, it's antithetic vibes but vibes each the same," Jamz adds.

Catch The Best of Jamz Supernova connected BBC Sounds from Tuesday 27 December here.

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