John Osborne is a British radio broadcaster and DJ who was born in North London. He started his radio career on London’s pirate radio circuit, culminating in South London’s very successful Horizon Radio.

In 1981 he became the resident DJ at the famous nightclub, Room At The Top, also at this time he worked for Soul On Sound and Soundwave magazines where he did reviews and interviews including Madonna, Kajagoogoo, Nick Heywood and In the mid-1980s on his pirate broadcasts on London station Horizon radio he interviewed artists such as Mary Wilson of The Supremes. John continued to DJ in clubs such as

Hippodrome, Camden Palace, Limelight, Buzz Bar, London. Stage 3, Cinderellas Rockerfellas, 5th Avenue and The Ritzy. In 1992, he won the BEDA Club DJ of the year award and was nominated for The Disco International award.

John became the presenter of the DMC Mixing Championships from 1992 to 1994. In the ’80s and ’90s he wrote articles for the music press. John was the owner of the cool house record label ‘Slate Records” at their time he also acted as agent for many of the UK’s top radio presenters, securing them gigs in night clubs and events across the UK In 1996 John started working in legal local radio. He joined Invicta FM, the independent local radio station for Kent owned by Capital Radio. His interviews included The Spice Girls, Boyzone, Craig David, Jim Kerr, Robin Gibb and many more. He presented various radio shows including The Wind Down Zone, Just 80’s, Boogie Years, The Online Request Show and the afternoon weekday slot and the Friday and Saturday night Club Dance Show. He appeared at most nightclubs in Kent during this time.

Following time at Virgin Radio and Gold, John joined Jazz FM in 2012 to present weekend breakfast. He became host of the weekday Jazz Breakfast in late 2013, before being moved to weekend breakfast a year later. He has hosted Funky Sensation and Saturday Soul for the station on Saturday evenings and now his regular show on Sunday afternoons In addition to Jazz FM, John is a presenter on digital soul music station Solar Radio on Tuesday afternoons playing mainly new contemporary soul and house music.

John regularly appears at nightclubs and major music festivals and is one of the main DJs at the Great Yarmouth Soul Weekender, Summer Solstice, Portugal Soul, Summer Breeze in Corfu, Soul & Reggae Malta and many other soul, funk and house events.