James Kennedy is a internationally touring DJ, music producer, and reality personality. He currently stars on the hit Bravo reality series Vanderpump Rules.

Biography

James Robert Kennedy was born on October 14, 1946, in Anderson to parents Bill Kennedy and Janie Mae Bolden Greenlee.He had two brothers, George and Walter. According to Sheila Hilton, the former principal of T.L. Hanna High, Kennedy earned the nickname "Radio" in the mid-1960s when he began to show up at the school football field with a transistor radio. In 1964, Kennedy befriended the high school's then football coach Harold Jones.Their friendship served as the basis of the 2003 film Radio starring Cuba Gooding Jr. as Kennedy and Ed Harris as Jones.In 1965, Kennedy became an unofficial 11th-grade student at T.L. Hanna High. Kennedy was considered a permanent high school junior, meaning that he would never graduate or have to leave.