Last year, James was hired to DJ at 47 weddings. "I had to change it up, so I set up a space in my room," said James, who also DJed at virtual Pride celebrations.
The bookings dried up at the start of the COVID pandemic in 2020, but eventually corporate gigs turned up where she DJed business events via Zoom. She discovered the collective about four years ago and has worked with them ever since, going by the moniker DJ Christie, as a DJ for hire to play at various events and celebrations. She is also part of an all-woman DJ crew in the Bay Area known as Heart of Gold DJs. Asked when she sleeps, James retorted, "Honey, I will do that later!" She is also "happily dating" again, though she wouldn't divulge the name of the woman she is seeing. "I can record at home and have a lot more flexibility," explained James as for how she is able to work on three radio shows per day in addition to her non-radio career and community volunteer work.
to midnight that is heard on the iHeart radio app and stations across the country. Meanwhile, James also has her own nighttime weekday show on Pride Radio from 7 p.m. hosting the "Morning Drive with Christie Live." James can now be heard weekdays from 6 to 10 a.m. but at the start of the year was promoted to having her own morning show when Quinn's program moved to that time slot. She also had been helming her own weekday midday show on 103.7 F.M. Her radio career took her to various local stations, from KYLD and KISQ, to most recently iHeart 80s For the past five years James has produced former MTV VJ Martha Quinn's radio show on the station. "You just never know where life and a dream can take you! It is true, I am living proof," said James, as she had dreamed of learning and working with Brooks-Moon while in Italy. Their show "Renel & Christie in the Morning" aired on 98.1 KISS-FM. She ended up moving back to the Bay Area with her Italian then-girlfriend and landed a local radio internship that led to a gig with Renel Brooks-Moon, who later became the public address announcer for the San Francisco Giants. When the girl came back, she was sent to another department, so I was able to do the radio morning show and news." I am the least morning person of anyone," said James, who declined to reveal her current age. "Nobody wanted to get up early to do the morning show, so they said they thought I would be great. A chance assignment saw her take over the morning radio show when the usual host went on vacation. She likened it to the military's version of CNN, for which she filed reports about entertainment news. "I worked for American Forces Network, so thank you for keeping journalism alive in any form." "I know it was horrible!" James joked in a recent phone interview with the Bay Area Reporter. It instilled in her a love for media in its various formats, from radio broadcasts to printed newspapers. But the Navy veteran did spend three years living in Italy, where she was stationed on the Mediterranean island of Sardinia between 20 and served as a petty officer 2nd class as a journalist. James grew up in Fremont and has called Oakland home, for the most part, since she turned 18.
It is fun and music and positive vibes," said James, who identifies as pansexual and bisexual and owns a home in the city's Fruitvale neighborhood. "Fun and music are kind of my jam that's me. It is one of the many responsibilities the well-known DJ and radio personality is juggling these days as in-person events make a comeback amid the ongoing COVID pandemic. East Bay native Christie James is helping to showcase the local LGBTQ community next month as one of the organizers of the Pridefest Oakland 2022 celebration.
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