Beloved DJ and podcaster dies of cancer at just 53

Tammie Holland, a well-known power personality, podcast host, and DJ, died of colon cancer at property 53 connected Saturday.

The Emmy-nominated on-air seasoned from St. Louis was a starring sound connected FOXY 106.9 FM's first all-black female power show, 'The Real Breakfast Crew.'  A trailblazer for African American female successful radio, she besides hosted nan podcast 'This Week pinch Tammie Holland.'

The comedian and character was first diagnosed pinch colon crab successful 2021, and was unfastened astir her then-ongoing battle. Holland was on-air conscionable weeks earlier her passing, and announced she would person hospice attraction aft her shape IV colon crab had dispersed to her lungs and her brain.

During her ain treatment, Holland was dedicated to nan community, involving herself successful fundraisers and helping different group who were battling crab themselves, Don Williams, aka DJ Wrekk 1, programme head for Foxy 106.9 FM, told Fox2Now. 

A 2 hr tribute was held for her connected Monday, wherever listeners called successful and shared their favourite memories of Holland. 

On and disconnected nan air, Holland was a societal justness advocator who went retired of her measurement to thief her community, particularly protesting against constabulary brutality. 

Notably, she amplified nan Ferguson unrest successful 2014 by sharing a powerful image of Michael Brown's begetter and securing an early question and reply pinch his mother.

Holland said she wouldn't fto her crab test extremity her from surviving nan remainder of her life.

'Very early on, I stopped saying, 'Why me?' Holland told The St. Louis American successful January. 'It's like, 'Why not me?' My crab has caused maine to unrecorded life pinch much volition – to unrecorded life connected purpose.'

Holland's co-hosts, coworkers and nan power position she loved truthful overmuch person expressed their love, condolences and admiration.

'Tammie's singular bequest successful nan power manufacture spans complete 3 decades, and her effect connected nan metropolis of St. Louis will beryllium profoundly felt,' Foxy 106.9 FM said successful a statement.

'Tammie was a cherished fixture connected Foxy 106.9. She was known for her lukewarm smile, contagious laughter and genuine enthusiasm for life.'   

'She opened doors for a batch of people,' Holland's power co-host Aretha 'Lady Re' Richardson told section NBC affiliate KSDK.

'Tammie really played a large domiciled - I'm not going to cry, but she really played a large domiciled successful a batch of things that group don't moreover cognize about.'

'She has this infectious laughter and everybody loves it,' her co-host, Mz. Sinita, said. 'Just nan sound of that sound and that laughter and past she would ever bust retired successful immoderate harmonic opus aliases thing connected nan microphone.'

'Just seeing these past fewer days and Tammie connected this travel these past fewer years, I conscionable cognize she'll beryllium remembered arsenic a beautiful tone that touched truthful many,' Tonee Roper, an on-air characteristic astatine Foxy 106.9 FM, told Fox2Now. 

'And her kindness activity connected air, sharing her journey, inspiring each done difficult times. We will each retrieve that.'

Her ceremonial is planned for Tuesday, July 23.