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<a href="/biography/kidd-kraddick">David Peter Cradick</a> was a <a href="/biography/kidd-kraddick">radio host</a> and TV personality. He was commonly known as Kidd Kraddick. He was famous for his shows like, Kidd Kraddick in the morning. He passed away in 2013 due to heart disease.

In his early life Cradick Kraddick was born in Napoleon, Ohio and grew up in Dunedin, Florida. His first radio position was in Tampa. He later worked in Fresno, California (KYNO-FM), Miami, Florida, Salt Lake City (KAYK & KLRZ), and Los Angeles (KHTZ), where he also worked comedy clubs as an MC.

He moved to Dallas in 1984 and took over the night shift on the newly formatted top-40 station KEGL (The Eagle) and established a following. In 1990, Kraddick was named to the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ten_Outstanding_Young_Americans">Ten Outstanding Young Americans</a> list by the United States Junior Chamber. KEGL changed formats from Top 40 pop/rock to Modern Rock in 1992 and Kraddick was released from his contract. After eight months off the air, he was hired to a morning position at Top 40 KHKS-106.1 "Kiss-FM" in Dallas-Fort Worth. He won a 1998 Marconi Award for Major Market Radio Personality of the Year while he was with KHKS and the next year he won Air Personality of the Year at the Radio Music Awards. He began to syndicate the show in 2001 and moved the production to an independent studio in Las Colinas. He became a member of the Texas Radio Hall of Fame. In 2016, Kraddick was posthumously inducted into the National Radio Hall of Fame.

Kidd Kraddick in the Morning was born as a local radio program in Dallas, Texas, and survived through numerous cast changes. The show is broadcast from 5-10 a.m. Central on weekday mornings and is nationally syndicated in more than 75 markets and the American Forces Radio Network. Kraddick voiced a number of characters, making extensive use of voice altering technology in improvising characters as they came up during show discussions. One of the most popular was him improvising the voice of J-Si Chavez's wife/high school sweetheart Kinsey. He has voiced other characters such as "Must Be Nice Guy", Rhonda from Potluck Texas, and other characters that added flair to the show. Since his passing in 2013, the show airs as an ensemble program under the name The Kidd Kraddick Morning Show featuring the remaining cast members, Kellie Rasberry, Alaric "Big Al" Mack, Jose "J-Si" Chavez and Jenna Owens

He got married to his first wife Carol in 1986 when she was 22 and he was 27. They got separated in 2007. They got their divorce finalized in 2008. They have one daughter out of this relationship. He got engaged to Lissi, a week before his death. Lissi Mullen was his girlfriend for two years. In 2009, he was diagnosed with lymphoma and has kept it as a secret from his family.

The reason for the separation was said to be infidelity. It was said that Kidd had an affair with Taylor. However, Kidd commented that if he actually had an extramarital relationship, the other DJs would have created a big scene out of it and the news would have spread all over town in no time.

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He announced his separation and informed that he and Carol did not want to go in detail into the personal matters. He said that he would stop talking about Carol on the show for the sake of her privacy. Carol always knew that she would soon be separated from her husband. They did not live together for a long time. He knew Carol from her senior year in high school.

He agreed that most of the mistakes that were committed to the marriage was due to him. He said that he was egoistic, stubborn and very emotional and would talk without thinking. He also said that his career added a lot of pressure on his personal life. He also said that he would try to maintain a healthy relationship with Carol for the sake of his daughter.

In 2011, he announced that he is dating a woman who is 21 years younger than him. At the age of 53, he proposed to Lissi. In 2011, he announced that he had cancer and was taking treatment for the same between 2011 and 2012, his health was regained, and he met Lissi.

Kraddick died on July 27, 2013, while attending an annual fundraiser for his charity, Kidd's Kids, at Timberlane Country Club in Gretna, Louisiana. Jefferson Parish Deputy Coroner Granville Morse said heart disease was “evident” and that drug use and foul play were not suspected, according to his findings after a routine autopsy. Morse said Kraddick had an enlarged heart, which is a sign of high blood pressure. He also had three diseased vessels and one of his arteries had an 80 percent blockage. In early August 2013, the Jefferson Parish Coroner's Office concluded Kraddick's cause of death was arteriosclerotic and hypertensive cardiovascular disease

After his death, his daughter inherited the condo in which he and Lissi were living together. It was said that she demanded Lissi to leave the condo, immediately. It was said that his daughter was angry that he was dating someone who was younger than her. Kidd also apologized to her in the show about this age difference. Carol never talked about their separation or the reason for it in the media. It was said that his daughter took Carol’s side during the separation and he was alone for most of this time, after the separation. It was also said that Carol did not communicate with Kidd when he announced about his health problems.  Though he wanted his relationship with Carol to be smooth, it was not so in the real life.

There are no details as what happened to Lissi after his death. Carol was not known to have dated anyone nor did she get married after the separation.

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