DJ was 15 when he got a calling for his life’s work Music man Salina Journal Cain Humphrey was a 15-year-old high school student
when he attended a school dance and realized what he wanted to be when he grew up. The dance was no fun, Humphrey said, because the disc jockey played music the kids didn’t like, wouldn’t take requests, didn’t have a light show and just sat there. “I thought, ‘I could do better than that,’ ” he said. Humphrey approached school officials at his southwest Kansas school in West Elk and asked if he could DJ the next dance. They agreed.
He borrowed friends’ cassette tapes, made lights out of coffee cans, borrowed a teacher’s tuxedo and had so much fun doing it, he never stopped.