Long before Snooki, there was music. It seems quaint to remember a time when Americans didn't have cable TV, before music videos and reality stars, but the original MTV VJs describe the beginning of ...

Former MTV VJ Matt Pinfield is hospitalized following a stroke earlier this month. Pinfield's radio station KCSN shared in a Facebook post on Jan. 7 that he would be taking a "temporary leave of ...

A former MTV VJ is dead at 52 after a lengthy battle with cancer. Ananda Lewis, best known as a music video jockey and host of “Total Request Live,” has died, her sister Lakshmi Emory announced ...

Former MTV “Total Request Live” host Ananda Lewis has died following a nearly 5-year battle with breast cancer. She was 52 years old. “She’s free, and in His heavenly arms,” the video journalist’s ...

Ananda Lewis, a former MTV VJ who connected a generation of music fans to their favorite celebrities in the network's heyday, has died. She was 52. The news was confirmed by her sister Lakshmi Emory, ...

It was a carefree yet formative part of growing up. Mix tapes were the ultimate form of personal expression, a curated collection of songs meant to convey a mood or message. Whether you were crafting ...

Ananda Lewis was at peace during her final days. The MTV VJ sent a heartbreaking final text message to her best friend, CNN correspondent Stephanie Elam, which she read aloud in an emotional interview ...

"Friends were thinking they were coming to see me for the last time. The doctors never expected me to speak or to walk again," said Pinfield Ingrid Vasquez is a Digital News Writer at PEOPLE. She ...

Ananda Lewis, a former MTV video jockey and talk show host, has died after a lengthy battle with breast cancer. She was 52. Lewis’ sister, Lakshmi, made the devastating news in a short Facebook post ...

Ananda Lewis, the former MTV VJ known in the late 1990s as the “It Girl” for the hip-hop generation, has died after a years-long battle with breast cancer. The TV host, former model and social ...

Former MTV VJ Ananda Lewis has died. She was 52. Ananda's sister, Lakshmi Lewis, announced the news of the host's passing via social media on Wednesday, June 11. "She's free, and in His heavenly arms.