Nessa Diab Biography
Nessa Diab is an extremely talented American radio and television personality who made her way to the hearts of people with her sheer creative geniuses and influential style. Born during the Gulf War days, Nessa’s fate turned when she moved to the U.S. for a degree in Mass Communication.
The opportunity allowed her to break free from her war-impinged early years and come out as a superstar in her own right. While studying at UC, Berkeley, Nessa first bagged a show on the WILD 94.9 KYLD airwaves. Ever since then, there was no looking back for the spirited girl who climbed up the ladder of success, one at a time.
The magnum opus of Nessa’s already successful career came in when she bagged a primetime show at San Francisco’s Wild 94.4’s ‘Nessa’s Night Show. Taking her success story further, she clutched an appointment at New York City’s iconic Hot97, to become ‘The Voice of New York. She even has served as the host of several popular American television shows. In 2015, Nessa was invited to the United Nation’s celebration of ‘Women’s History Month to talk about the status of women in media.
Nessa Diab Age
Nessa was born on May 6, 1981, Her birth sign is Taurus.
Nessa’s Family
Nessa Diab was born on May 6, 1981, in Southern California. She was raised as a Muslim by her Egyptian father and Middle Eastern mother. She has two brothers. Due to the nature of her father’s job, the family shifted base to Saudi Arabia when Nessa was young. However, they traveled frequently in and out of California.
Born at a time when the Middle East was embroiled in the Gulf War, Nessa, from an early age, had a first-hand experience of the war and the tragedies that resulted from it. She wore gas masks to school. War sirens, bloody combats, gory battlefields, and innocent death was the environment that Nessa grew up in.
It was due to this that she wanted to break out of this lifestyle and breathe freely. Nessa got the chance when she enrolled at the University of California, Berkeley for a degree in Mass Communication. Before her career took off, Nessa was into creating music and writing songs. She even remixed music. In fact, much before officially being on radio, one of Nessa’s remixed songs, ‘Rydaz’ of the Destiny Child song ‘Soldier’, was played on air.
Nessa Diab Husband
Nessa dated Aldon Smith before getting to a relationship with football quarterback Colin Kaepernick in July 2015. It was almost a year later in February 2016 that they made their relationship official, publicly announced in the media.
Nessa Diab Children
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Nessa’s Height
Nessa stands 5 feet and 8 inches tall.
Nessa’s Career
she began working on a news show on WILD 94.9 KYLD. Not the one to be satisfied easily, She grabbed another show on POWER 106 KPWR called ‘West Coast Report’. With this, she became a handful of the lot who was concurrently an on-air personality in the two largest radio markets on the West Coast. Diab then changed her home station from WILD 94.9 to ENERGY 92.7 in San Francisco but she returned to WILD 94.9 for the station’s overnight show during weekdays. Diab next bagged a weekday night show for 101.5 JAMZ in Phoenix, Arizona.
Maneuvering her way through the radio ranks, her next stop was for San Francisco’s Wild 94.4 primetime radio show ‘Nessa’s Night Show. The show proved to be the biggest breakthrough in her career. Her celebrity interviews helped her rise to prominence not just on San Francisco airwaves but also on YouTube. Such was the admiration and appreciation that MTV offered her the opportunity to host the popular TV show ‘Girl CodeM’.
Her career peaked at meteoric heights in 2015 when she replaced Angie Martinez on the drivetime slot on New York City’s iconic Hot97, thus becoming ‘The Voice of New York. As a jockey in one of the biggest and most influential hip-hop stations in the world, Nessa’s popularity rose tenfold.
Currently, she also serves as the host of The Nessa Show on Host 97, which airs on the radio station WQHT KMVQ. Besides her successful radio career, She has also hosted the television shows, such as ‘Ain’t That America’, ‘iHeartRadio Music Festival’, ‘VH1 Big Morning Buzz’, and ‘Teen Mom Aftershow’, and ‘Real Talk’.
Nessa Diab Net Worth
The TV personality has an estimated net worth of 2 million dollars as of 2019.
Nessa Diab and Jenelle Evans
Jenelle Evans walked out of Monday’s Teen Mom 2 reunion in tears after being confronted by host Nessa Diab over the reality star’s negative comments about her boyfriend Colin Kaepernick. Tension sparked between the women when Evans explained her issues with costar Amber Portwood and came to a boiling point when Portwood called her husband David Eason abusive. That’s when Diab, 38, explained Evans did the same to her. “You posed hateful comments on social media about my family. My man, Colin Kaepernick,” Nessa stated.
Evans quickly denied she ever said anything nasty about Kaepernick, 31, forcing Diab to share her comments with the audience. Back in September, Evans expressed disappointment in Nike on Facebook after the brand revealed Kaepernick was the face of their “Just Do It” campaign. Kaepernick, who has been a Nike athlete since 2011, made headlines in August 2016 when he declined to stand for the anthem when it was played before games. Instead of standing, he kneeled to protest racial injustice and police brutality.
