Tom Joyner

Mr. Joyner credits his sense of style to growing up in Tuskegee, Ala., where his parents met while working at the air base and later built a Midcentury Modern house with a large picture window. He remembers performances in town by musicians such as Ella Fitzgerald and Count Basie. "Style was in my neighborhood." After graduating from Tuskegee Institute (now Tuskegee University), Mr. Joyner started in radio in Montgomery, Ala., and in 1994 went on to become host of "The Tom Joyner Morning Show," an ABC Radio Networks nationally syndicated show aimed at Black listeners, which drew approximately eight million listeners every week in 120 markets and featured interviews with presidents (Clinton and Obama), celebrity actors, musicians and renowned Black academics. While living in Dallas in the late 1990s, Mr. Joyner began vacationing in Miami. He bought his first house on Golden Beach as a Valentine’s Day and anniversary present for his wife; they have since divorced.