Sway Calloway, usually credited as Sway, is a reporter and executive producer for MTV News.Chrisp, Taj. Q & A With Sway Calloway of MTV News. The Daily Orange: October 19, 2007. He is also the co-host of the nationally syndicated radio show The Wake Up Show. He is one half of the duo Sway & King Tech.

Biography

As a teenager growing up in Oakland, California, Sway became a locally known rapper,and street performer on San Francisco's Pier 39.Entzminger, Angela. Office of Film, Theater and Broadcasting Hosts Second Annual Careers in Television Event The Animator's Journal: April 28, 2007. He teamed up with DJ King Tech after high school and the duo performed at various San Francisco Bay Area clubs. They also released independent albums that were popular locally. A major label record deal with Giant Records followed. The resulting album, Concrete Jungle in 1990, got them the job of co-hosting their own show on radio station KMEL.

The Wake Up Show featured music and interviews with well-known hip hop artists as well as up-and-coming ones. The show became very popular and began simulcasting to Los Angeles on KKBT in 1994 and to Chicago on WEJM by 1996.Wake Up Show about page Ras Kass, Chino XL and Eminem are among the rappers who made their broadcasting debuts on the show. Soon, Sway was also hosting his own morning drive time show on the station.