A well-known emcee simply known as DJ Bussy has been awarded a Best of Bermuda Gold Award.

Dennis Maynard a.k.a. DJ Bussy previously hosted a mid-morning radio show and is now the presenter of the drive home show on KJAZ 98.1 FM.

He has been on the radio for about a year and said although he knew he had fans, winning a Bermuda Gold Award was the icing on the cake.

"My sales representative Janson Cross called me and said, 'I've been trying to call you, you have won a Bermuda Gold Award'. I said, 'I did?'"

Unlike the party scene where he is the other half of popular DJ sound system China and Bussy, he plays a lot more than Reggae beats during his show, called Simply Class for the Mature and Sexy.

Although DJ Bussy is a hit, he never thought that he would be a radio host. He dropped out of Robert Crawford School for Boys and began on a musical journey.

"I didn't finish [high school] and after that I got into music and I've been into it ever since," he said. "I have been making money from it since I was about 18 or 19 and I'm 38 now.

"It has been really profitable and there are so many gigs and things going on, I'm getting a little tired, but we love what we do.

"I never thought that I would ever get a radio show, China and I would talk about it years ago, and then we just left it alone."

Twenty-five years ago he started out with several sound systems, before pairing off with China a.k.a Kingsley Burchall.

"They have been calling him China forever, because he looks Chinese," he said of his friend he has known since Primary Three. We have been into music for a very long time."

But it was former radio presenter Davano Spencer, who was instrumental in getting him the job at KJAZ.

"I rang him and he said, 'come up'. He and Bootsie were doing the morning show and I came on [hosted a show] after them."

On what keeps things alive for him, he said: "One is the new music that comes out, you feel it and like Bob Marley said, 'when you feel it, you feel no pain'.

"And then when you are in front of a big crowd it excites you, I make the party, I am a mic man.

"I get everyone singing and you will sing with me. It is all about the vibe and taking the party to where it is supposed to be."

Speaking of his fans the father-of-two added: "Now everywhere I go it's like, '98.1, simply class'.

"And if I am not on, then they want to know what happened. So I thank all of my fans and the Bermuda Gold Awards."