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About

Mike in July 2023
June 2019 voiceover demo

Mike Chimeri is a Twitch streamer, contemporary jazz radio host, photographer, videographer, blogger, voice over artist, and a lifelong instrumental music enthusiast.

He recently hosted Instrumental Invasion with Mike Chimeri, which aired Wednesday nights on WCWP-FM, LIU Post‘s public radio station. The show premiered April 1, 2020, and concluded with a three-night sendoff from November 15 to 17, 2023.

Mike’s life in radio began in 2001, hosting a contemporary jazz show called The Mike Chimeri Show. From July 2004 to May 2005, he hosted The (original) Instrumental Invasion at WGBB-AM. He ran a Live365 Internet Radio station, MCJN: Mike Chimeri Jazz Net, from May to July 2007.

From January to July 2010, he was one of the hosts of Evening Jazz on WCWP-FM, a Monday to Thursday format. For the first five months, he hosted Tuesdays and Thursdays, limiting himself to Thursdays for the last two months.

His second Live365 station, CJazzPlus, was in operation from September to December 2010.

Since 2006, Mike has hosted a two-hour contemporary jazz radio show on WCWP during the weekend of LIU Post’s Homecoming. Shows have aired live some years, prerecorded other years, and both from 2015 to ’19 and in ’22. (Mike did not participate in 2010. The programming block was postponed in 2020 due to COVID-19. The Abrams Communications Center renovation forced another postponement in ’23.)

From July to September 2017, he posted a series of videos on his YouTube channel called Mike Chimeri’s Music Collection.

In 2021, Mike was selected for induction into the WCWP Hall of Fame. He was officially honored at a joint 2020-21 ceremony held in June 2022.

Mike is not afraid to admit he has what was once known as Asperger Syndrome, an autism spectrum disorder. Although only diagnosed with it in 1999, he’s had it his entire life.

“Chimeri” is pronounced “shimMARY.”

If you want to go beyond comments to posts, you can e-mail Mike at mikechimeri@gmail.com, friend him on Facebook, look at his photos (and occasional Twitch stream clips) on Instagram, follow him on Bluesky, or connect with him on LinkedIn.