![]() Ray left the BBC Asian Network on 4 June 2010 to pursue other radio and television work. In 2008 The Adil Ray Show won the best radio show category at the UK Asian Music Awards. In May 2006, Ray took over the drive time afternoon slot, and from January 2009 he presented the station's Breakfast Show from 7:00am each weekday. In 2003, Ray was the first to interview and champion R&B star Jay Sean. Ray joined the BBC Asian Network in 2002 to present the late night Adil Ray Show. He then joined Century Radio in Manchester, Radio Aire Leeds and Ministry of Sound Radio. In 1997, Ray landed a spot with Galaxy 105, a job that made him the first full-time British South Asian presenter to host a mainstream commercial radio show in the UK. Later, during his placement year, he got a job with a new small Asian radio station in Birmingham where he spent the first half of the year, before moving on to Choice FM (1995). Ray began his career as a radio host on a pirate radio station in Huddersfield while studying at the University of Huddersfield, and DJing at the university venue Eden (1992). ![]() Ray graduated from the University of Huddersfield with a 2:1 BA (Hons) in Marketing in 1997. Ray was a keen cricketer and represented Birmingham and District Premier League side West Bromwich Dartmouth during the late-1980s and early-1990s. Ray attended Yardley Junior and Infant School and Handsworth Grammar School, his first day being the day after the Handsworth Riots in 1985. Ray's parents divorced during his adolescence. ![]() His mother worked for the Immigration Appeals Department in the Civil Service and was of Buganda and Kenyan Asian ancestry. Ray's father Abdul worked as a bus driver for almost forty years. He was brought up in the suburb of Yardley. Ray was born in Birmingham, England, to a Pakistani Muslim father from Lahore, and a Kenyan mother.
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