MELVIN LINDSEY

Melvin Lindsey was an on-air personality in the Washington, D.C. area.

He is widely known for originating the "Quiet Storm" late-night music programming format on urban contemporary radio stations.

Lindsey began his broadcast career as an intern at Howard University radio station WHUR-FM. In 1976, he brought the "Quiet Storm" to the station's late-night lineup, titled after a single by Smokey Robinson. The show's soulful, melodic and moody tone made it a near immediate success and the 'love song'-heavy format was quickly replicated at radio stations across the country that served an urban, African American adult demographic. Lindsey's show also gave rise to a category of music of the same name.

After a nine-year run on WHUR-FM, Lindsey took his format to another local radio station, WKYS-FM, for five more years until 1990.

Melvin Lindsey died two years later, at the age of 36.