By: Maya Perry
“I pretty much knew what career path I wanted to take back when I was a teenager. It was either going to be a meteorologist or work in radio. I hate math, so radio won the coin toss!”
Cyn City not to be confused with “Sin City” proclaims that she is a combination of three simple words, “Weird. Awkward. Funny.” She further explains, “I’m just me. I try to be as authentic to myself as possible. When I look around and see what flows through social media, it makes me sad sometimes because I feel some of us radio head’s, we forget what we truly started out in radio to do. Move people. Entertain. Make them forget about their worries while they listen to us. I feel as if we have turned into these social media clowns doing every “challenge” in order to go viral. Or do things in order to pump up on our followers count. I need substance. My purpose in radio is simple. Entertain. I want radio to move folks the way some legendary jocks moved me when I was younger.”
Cyn City tells a short memory about growing up around radio. “Growing up, I would see my dad talk with people all around the world using his HAM radio. The original Facebook! Lol. He’s had one since the 70’s or 80’s. I loved sneaking into his “radio room” and would turn it on and see if I could talk to someone in another country. He would get post cards from his “friends” all over the world. I found it fun and exciting! When the time came to pick what I wanted to do in life, radio came naturally.”
When speaking to Cyn City, I loved reading her name. Something so simple as a play on words, yet intriguing. I had to ask, how did she come up with the on air name “Cyn City”? She clarifies, “My real name is spelled Cintia. But, my whole entire life no one could ever spell it correctly, not even my own mother at times! Since I worked in sports radio and it was a boys club, all the boys had nick names. A dear friend/coworker of mine, Zach Krantz from 560 WQAM in Miami, he gave me the name Cyn City on air one day. The boys used just call me “Cin”.Cin turned into Cyn City and well...I ran with it. Cyn City was born!”
You can catch Cyn City on air at Power 96 in Miami as well as cohosting “Not a Basic Podcast”. When I asked her what piece of advice she would give to upcoming women in radio, she concluded “Learn! Learn! Learn! Every department. Every job position. Learn it. You never know where your radio journey will take you. Absorb and learn as much as you can. Toughen up faster. It’ll help face disappointments that WILL come along the way.”