
Alex Sensation
Alex Sensation is a popular, award-winning radio DJ, multicultural musical tastemaker, and recording artist. Born as Javier Alexander Zalazar in Bogotá, Colombia, he immigrated to the United States as a child. At 16, he began collecting records -- influenced by an older brother who was a club DJ -- and eventually secured gigs spinning in clubs by deceiving managers about his age. At 17 he was already working at the globally celebrated Copacabana.
During his tenure at the Copa, he was approached by Caliente 105.9 FM's Tony Luna (later program director for Amor 93.1 FM), who offered him a weekend position as a mixer. Sensation took the gig and remained with the station for about a year and a half before it changed formats. Six months after leaving, he was offered a job at New York's most popular Latin music radio station, La Mega 97.9 FM, as the main mixer of a segment called La Mega Mezcla del Mediodía. Sensation soon became the station's most...