Don Cornelius
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- Worked as an insurance salesman before turning to jobs in television and radio.
- Was a news announcer at WCIU in Chicago in the 1960s when he started hosting dance parties around the city and had the idea to create Soul Train.
- Hosted Soul Train from 1971 to 1993, when a series of guest hosts took over.
- Created the Soul Train Music Awards in 1987.