ART ROONEY Biography
Art Rooney began his Djing career in the mid 80’s playing at some of the local nightclubs in the Jersey shore area of New Jersey. After winning a DJ Spin-off contest at Hollywood Nightclub in 1986 he began to work in all of the major clubs in the Seaside Heights area (made famous by MTV’s Summer Beach House and now Jersey Shore). In 1995 Art moved to Southwest Florida. Art quickly became a well-known area DJ. While working in the nightclubs in Ft Myers, Fl. Art was introduced to Mike Bell the Music Director for Power 93.5 and was asked to do mix shows for Power. The show was a huge success but later the station changed formats. Art eventually ended up on the 100,000-watt WINK FM taking the Saturday night day part from a 0 to a 30 share with woman 24 to 34 (arbitron rating book – spring 2000 – Ft Myers /Naples). At the present day Art is on Saturday Nights 10 pm to 1am on WSGL Mix 104.7 Naples/ Ft Myers and is also on the air at WBZC-FM in Pemberton N.J. Art can be heard on Sirius Satellite and ipartyradio.com, he has performed guest spots all over the country including being a featured DJ at Rick’s in Key West for Spring Break 2003. He has been featured in publications such as Dance Music Authority Magazine, The News-Press (Ft Myers Fl.), and the Naples Daily News. Art also reports to various industry trade magazines including S.I.N., F.M.Q.B. and the One Nation Under a Groove mix show chart. He is helping to shape the future of dance music in the United States, evident by his seat, multiple years, on the mix show panel at the Winter Music Conference in Miami. | read more
