GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) — After decades of broadcasting on Grand Rapids airwaves, a familiar voice has been silenced.
“He brought a musician’s ear to the radio studio,” Tim Steele said of Aris Hampers, the man behind the voice.
Steele said he has known Hampers for over 40 years. They worked in radio together.
“We had nicknames for each other on air,” Steele said. “I always called Aris the Jedi knight of rock ‘n’ roll.”
Steele learned through a message Hampers posted to Facebook that Hampers has a one-and-a-half inch cancerous tumor on his windpipe.
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