By Jacques Kelly, The Baltimore Sun
6:08 p.m. EST, January 29, 2014
Pamela Audrey Hall, a former radio station program director who was active nationally in jazz and contemporary gospel music circles, died of cancer Jan. 21 at St. Agnes Hospital. She was 57 and lived in Ellicott City.
She was named Black Radio's Music Director of the Year in 1992. Billboard Magazine also nominated her as music director of the year.
Born in Philadelphia, she was the daughter of Dr. William Martin Hall, a gynecologist at Sinai Hospital and the old Lutheran and Provident hospitals, who was a founder of the Garwyn Medical Center. Her mother, Mildred DaSilva Hall, is a homemaker. The family moved to Baltimore many years ago and lived in Ashburton.
Ms. Hall attended Samuel Ready School before graduating from Western High School in 1974, where she played on the basketball team.
Ms. Hall earned a bachelor of arts in communication from Howard University, where she graduated with honors. She went into radio as an undergraduate and worked at the campus radio station, WHBC-AM, and was the assistant music director at WHUR-FM.
As a young woman, she studied piano in Baltimore and listened to her father's extensive collection of jazz recordings. She later collaborated with him on a radio program, "Doctor Jazz," which aired on satellite radio. She often visited Blues Alley in Washington and the Left Bank Jazz Society in Baltimore.
"She became a prominent music authority in the industry," said her brother, Norman B. Hall of Martha's Vineyard, Mass. "Many artists owe their career to her giving them air time and breaking in their first records. She stood for the highest ethical standards in the music industry."
Family members said she lived in New York City while in her 20s and was music director at WBLS-FM, part of Inner City Broadcasting.
She was later a promotions representative for Prelude Records and was then a regional promotions manager and artists and repertoire representative at Arista Records, also in New York.
She returned to Baltimore in 1984 and worked in cable television and as a legislative aide to Rep. Elijah E. Cummings. She was also an independent record representative in the Mid-Atlantic region. In 1993, she returned to Howard University as music director and an interim program director.
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