For nearly two decades, “Spirit Soul Music” has entertained and informed listeners as it explores of a music form that steams from traditional American gospel music.
Her radio career did not start with this specific show. In fact, Booker has been working in the radio field for over 30 years, starting in news writing and radio reporting that would propel her towards a professional career in radio as a producer and anchor. She’s worked at a variety of radio stations, including Power 99 FM, WHYY, WHAT, WWDB and more.
Radio has always held a special place in her heart. When she was a child, she was bit by the bug of radio and it has never left her. As a youth, she remembers disc jockeys playing entire albums and listening to gospel music on Sundays under the strict rule of her father. Oftentimes, she would accommodate her father by absorbing the traditional sounds of gospel music, which her father insisted was a part of her history. She would then curiously listen to other genres of music that still had a gospel feel or message to them.
Those Sunday memories foreshadowed her current radio show and podcast that gels two important qualities of radio—music and talk—by presenting gospel music’s history to her listeners as well as providing an eclectic perspective of the genre itself.
