Jim Santora Jr’s first published piece was with the Hammonton News, a local town newspaper in Hammonton NJ, where he grew up. He was working as a sports writer for the paper in 1988 while going to college. His first passion was radio, where he would be on the air at WACC Campus Radio (Atlantic Community College), where he also served as music director and general manager. He would also spend summer’s as a DJ at WLFR (Stockton College). All of this took place between 1987-1990.
He would go on to form Rock N Roll Express Entertainment and was a DJ and Karaoke host for a good portion of the 1990’s. He continued his writing, working as a beat reporter for the Beachcomber, located in Margate, NJ. He also became a music review critic, writing for In Tune Magazine, located in the Atlantic City NJ area. During this time, he would become a feature writer, covering live events and interviews. Some pieces of his work included coverage of Tom Petty, Deftones, Ugly Kid Joe, Type O Negative and Drivin N Cryin. It was also in the early 90’s, that he would be in the band Hideous Heinous. A collection of the bands music went to Spin Magazine as part of their “Worst Band in America” contest. The band would not win, but the music must have been good (or bad) enough to be mentioned in an article by the magazine as well as a feature shown on CNN.
Heading into the late 90’s to early 2000’s, he would have a radio show on WNJC, located in Washington Twp. NJ. This show would eventually become the first of his internet programs, airing on Live365. His passion for internet radio programs would continue in the late 2000’s until 2015, hosting “The Jim Santora Show” on Hot Rocks Radio, Blog Talk Radio and eventually his own radio station, SH ROCK. The program was pretty successful and some of the interviews that the program had included members of Asking Alexandria, Saliva, Dokken, King’s X, The Dandy Warhols, Zebra, The Outlaws, Kansas, L.A. Guns, Stryper, Smile Empty Soul and Great White among others.
From 2005-2011, Jim was the lead vocalist of the bands 77LeSabre and Redliner. With 77LeSabre, he would release “Ride” in 2006. In 2009 with Redliner, “Vengeance” was released. Both bands performed all over New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware and Maryland and shared the stage with Tesla, Epica, Voodoo Blue and Threat Signal. He also was involved in various show production during this time, working with various artists including Chris Barron of Spin Doctors, Omnisoul and Suicide City.
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He would go on to form Rock N Roll Express Entertainment and was a DJ and Karaoke host for a good portion of the 1990’s. He continued his writing, working as a beat reporter for the Beachcomber, located in Margate, NJ. He also became a music review critic, writing for In Tune Magazine, located in the Atlantic City NJ area. During this time, he would become a feature writer, covering live events and interviews. Some pieces of his work included coverage of Tom Petty, Deftones, Ugly Kid Joe, Type O Negative and Drivin N Cryin. It was also in the early 90’s, that he would be in the band Hideous Heinous. A collection of the bands music went to Spin Magazine as part of their “Worst Band in America” contest. The band would not win, but the music must have been good (or bad) enough to be mentioned in an article by the magazine as well as a feature shown on CNN.
Heading into the late 90’s to early 2000’s, he would have a radio show on WNJC, located in Washington Twp. NJ. This show would eventually become the first of his internet programs, airing on Live365. His passion for internet radio programs would continue in the late 2000’s until 2015, hosting “The Jim Santora Show” on Hot Rocks Radio, Blog Talk Radio and eventually his own radio station, SH ROCK. The program was pretty successful and some of the interviews that the program had included members of Asking Alexandria, Saliva, Dokken, King’s X, The Dandy Warhols, Zebra, The Outlaws, Kansas, L.A. Guns, Stryper, Smile Empty Soul and Great White among others.
From 2005-2011, Jim was the lead vocalist of the bands 77LeSabre and Redliner. With 77LeSabre, he would release “Ride” in 2006. In 2009 with Redliner, “Vengeance” was released. Both bands performed all over New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware and Maryland and shared the stage with Tesla, Epica, Voodoo Blue and Threat Signal. He also was involved in various show production during this time, working with various artists including Chris Barron of Spin Doctors, Omnisoul and Suicide City.
Visit Jim's Amazon Author Page