Damien Richard Fahey (born June 1, 1980) is an MTV VJ, television host, and drummer.
Fahey grew up in Chicopee, Massachusetts, and moved to the town of Longmeadow, Massachusetts during the summer of 1992. He attended Williams Middle School and graduated from Longmeadow High School before being accepted a place at Northeastern University in Boston, Massachusetts where he majored in communication studies.
While he was a high school student in Longm...
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Damien Richard Fahey (born June 1, 1980) is an MTV VJ, television host, and drummer.
Fahey grew up in Chicopee, Massachusetts, and moved to the town of Longmeadow, Massachusetts during the summer of 1992. He attended Williams Middle School and graduated from Longmeadow High School before being accepted a place at Northeastern University in Boston, Massachusetts where he majored in communication studies.
While he was a high school student in Longmeadow, Fahey became an intern and then a part-time radio DJ at adult-contemporary station 94.7 WMAS-FM, based in Springfield, Massachusetts. Upon admission to Northeastern University in 1999, he acquired a position as a part-time overnight DJ with Boston, Massachusetts radio station KISS 108 FM.
It was while he was working at KISS 108 that Fahey was hired by MTV after a nationwide search for a new VJ in 2002. He replaced the popular VJ Carson Daly as the host of MTV's Total Request Live after Daly left the network to host his own late-night...
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