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Adam Curry

American broadcasting and internet personality (born 1964)

Adam Clark Curry (born September 3, 1964) is an American podcaster, announcer, internet entrepreneur, and media personality, known for his stint as a VJ on MTV and being one of the first celebrities to personally create and administer websites. Also known for co-hosting the No Agenda show, in the 2000s, he first became involved in podcasting and has been called the "Podfather" because of his efforts.2

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Born Sep 3, 1964.1

Career

Occupation: journalist, podcaster, writer, presenter, blogger, actor, businessperson, radio personality.4

  • Date not recordedFounded Podcast Index LLC3

Curry was born in Arlington, Virginia, but lived in Amstelveen, Netherlands, from 1972 to 1987. After a time working in Dutch pirate radio at Radio Picasso in Amstelveen and Radio Decibel in Amsterdam in the early 1980s under the pseudonym "John Holden", he got a break in broadcasting as the host of the Dutch weekly pop-music television program Countdown, and the English version of the same show, which was broadcast on pan-European music channel Music Box. He also hosted several other radio and television programs for the Dutch broadcast station Veronica. Aside from Countdown, in the Netherlands, Adam Curry is mostly known for his part in the Curry and Van Inkel radioshow (together with Dutch DJ Jeroen van Inkel), broadcast on Radio 3 for Veronica between 19:00 and 22:00 on Friday.

In 1987, Curry became a VJ for MTV. Besides making spot appearances between music videos, he was also the host of the programs Headbangers Ball and MTV Top 20 Video Countdown in which he interviewed stars like Michael Jackson and Paul McCartney. While working for MTV, he also did radio work, including drive-time

host for the New York City radio station WHTZ, and host of the national program HitLine USA.

Curry hosted the radio countdown show "Adam Curry's Top 30 Hitlist" for Entertainment Radio Networks from November 1991 to June 1994.

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Personal life

  • BornSep 3, 1964, Arlington County5
  • CitizenshipUnited States, Kingdom of the Netherlands6
  • ResidenceAustin7
  • SpousesPatricia Paay 1989 to 20098; Micky Hoogendijk 2012 to 20158

Since 1999, Curry has, at one time or another, lived in Rijkevorsel, Antwerp Province, Belgium; Guildford and London, England; San Francisco and Los Angeles, California, and Austin, Texas, U.S.

He is fluent in both English and Dutch.

Curry was married to Dutch television/radio personality Patricia Paay from 1989 to 2009. They have a daughter, Christina.

In July 2012, Curry married Micky Hoogendijk. On January 29, 2015, Curry announced on the No Agenda show that he and Hoogendijk had separated. Hoogendijk and Curry divorced in 2015.

Curry married his girlfriend of four years, Tina Snider (dubbed "The Keeper" by John C. Dvorak on the No Agenda Show), on May 19, 2019, in Austin, Texas.

Curry is the nephew of former CIA official and United States Ambassador to Korea Donald Gregg, whom he calls "Uncle Don" in his podcast.

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Religious beliefs

Together with his wife Tina Snider, he found God at age 58. In an interview on Dutch television that was shown right before an episode of the Hour of Power in January 2025, Curry says that he and his wife simultaneously felt the need to find a church and start reading the Bible. After watching the episode of The Chosen in which Jesus explains to Nicodemus how to be born (again) of water and the Spirit, Curry says he was ready to be baptized. He considers it an honorary title when people are calling him a Jesus-freak. Curry tells openly about this process and the changes in his life in interviews and podcasts.

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