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September 4th, 2008 - Happy Birthday Mark Ronson!
By Allie | September 4, 2008
Mark Daniel Ronson (born 4 September 1975) is an English Brit Award and three-times Grammy award-winning music producer, artist and co-founder of Allido Records.
He’s 33!
His debut album Here Comes the Fuzz, focused on American hip hop. Despite including collaborations with Sean Paul, Nate Dogg and Ghostface Killah, it failed to make an impact on the charts.
His second album, Version focused on the British music scene, with covers of songs by the likes of Radiohead, Maxïmo Park, The Smiths, Amy Winehouse, The Zutons and Kaiser Chiefs. The album includes three top ten hits and won Ronson a BRIT Award for Best Male Artist 2008. He is the first person to win a BRIT award, who does not sing on the actual recording.
Ronson was born into a wealthy Jewish family in London, England, the son of writer and socialite Ann Dexter-Jones and one-time band manager and real estate entrepreneur Laurence Ronson. His parents are of Ashkenazi descent, with ancestors from Russia and Lithuania.
He has younger twin sisters, Charlotte Ronson, a fashion designer, and Samantha Ronson, a singer and DJ as well (Lindsay Lohan’s girlfriend). After his parents broke up, his mother married Foreigner guitarist Mick Jones, which contributed to a childhood surrounded by music.
The family moved to New York in 1983, when Ronson was eight years old and Mark soon discovered a skill for playing records. Visits to his father back in the UK would fuel a passion for Brit rock (Def Leppard, UB40 etc.) It was in the mid-1980s that Mark made what was probably his first major contribution in music, albeit uncredited, when he helped to create the theme tune to the cartoon ‘ThunderCats’.
Personal Life:
Ronson lived next door to, and was friends with, Sean Lennon. Ronson became a naturalised citizen of the United States in 2008.
In 2002, he began dating Quincy Jones’s daughter, actress/singer Rashida Jones. They became engaged in March 2003, with Ronson proposing by creating a crossword puzzle with the message “Will you marry me”. They later broke up.
Mark Ronson made a cameo appearances in the video of More Than a Woman by Aaliyah as a DJ in the club-dancing scenes in a booth.
He is currently dating fashion model Daisy Lowe.
Other September 4th Birthdays:
Judith Ivey-Actress -57
Khandi Alexander-Actress -51
Lone Skye-Actress -37
Wes Bentley-Actor -30
Beyonce Knowles-Singer 27
Topics: Celebrity Birthdays, Lindsay Lohan, Wired Gossip, Wired Music |
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