Tina Hardwell

Tina Hardwell was raised in Stone Mountain, Georgia in the community of Smoke Rise. She attended Smoke Rise Elementary School and Greater Atlanta Christian School. Tina was active in school, community and professional musical theater. As a child, she spent most of her time studying acting, voice, ballet, tap and jazz. Her father, F.K. Wells was born in Vicksburg, Mississippi and a captain for Delta Airlines. He met her Canadian mother, Rose Marie Eich (a flight attendant for Eastern Airlines) while living in the same Atlanta base. She has one sister, Cynthia. Tina's parents instilled a love of music within her. Her father played the trombone, harmonica and accordion in many Atlanta jazz bands. Her mother grew up on stage and was a children's choir director at Eastminster Presbyterian Church. The Wells family had season tickets to The Alliance Theatre, where Tina would later train extensively. After attending the BFA program at Florida State University, Tina moved to Panama City Beach, Florida to soak up the sun and "play" music. She was discovered by calling in voices from Rossi's Ice Cream Parlour to radio host, Shadow B Cruz on The Great 108, WPFM. Within days, program director, Jeff Davis offered her a weekend gig. She spent the next decade on the airwaves in Florida, Alabama and Louisiana as radio personality, veejay, music director and television host, "Chazrin Blake". In the late 90's, Tina moved to her mother's hometown of Leamington, Ontario to start a family and enjoyed a quiet pace raising her children before returning to film and television. She resides in Oakville, Ontario.