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Dusty Street, Seminal Voice for KROQ and a Pioneering DJ in San Francisco Scene, Dies at 77

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Chris Willman Senior Music Writer and Chief Music Critic Dusty Street, a DJ familiar to Southern Californians as one of the seminal personalities in the early days of KROQ, and one of the pioneering female voices in rock radio, period, died Saturday at age 77 in Eugene, Oregon.

With her sultry voice and deep knowledge of the music she played, Street was not just an essential personality in L.A. rock radio history.

She began her career in San Francisco, DJ-ing at freeform KMPX beginning in 1967 before moving on to KSAN in 1969, where she held court for a decade.

She moved on to KROQ in 1979, as the new wave movement was cresting and making that station feel like a clubhouse for a new generation.

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