David Gresham

David Gresham (born 1943 in Mbabane, Swaziland) is a South African independent record producer, publisher, promoter, and radio & television personality. He is best known for his career on SABC's Springbok Radio show, South Africa's Top 20 and on SABC TV's, Pop Shop. He owns David Gresham Entertainment Group. His career, starting in the 1960s and has spanned five decades. Early life The son of a German father, he was born and brought up in Mbabane, Swaziland. He attended St Mark's School in Mbabane. After finishing high school, he was sent to South Africa by his father to become an electromedical engineer. Broadcast career Not wanting a career as an x-ray technician, he instead wanted to be a sound engineer. He auditioned for LM Radio's Rod Vickers, a radio station in Mozambique, for a job as a sound engineer but failed the interview but was given an introduction to a job at Herrick Merryl Recording Studios. Gresham spent three years there learning sound engineering as the company that produced and recorded radio dramas for SABC and he produced the sound and music for radio shows. His break back into LM Radio occurred a few years later when he met the editors of the station at a jazz concert in Swaziland. Gresham arrived at LM Radio in January 1965, six months after the station had changed its format to pop music and broadcast as a 24 hour station. His station manager and managing director there was David Davies and worked with Darryl Jooste, John Berks, and Evelyn Martin. He would broadcast with LM Radio for two and half years but really wanted to compose and record music.