Artist of the Week

Mark Ronson was born in St John's Wood on 4 September 1975 to socialite Anne Dexter and real estate mogul and music manager Laurence Ronson. He's the older brother of singer/DJ Samantha Ronson and her twin sister, designer Charlotte Ronson. After his parent got divorced, Ronson's mother married Foreigner's guitarist Mick Jones. Growing up in England, Ronson began playing guitar and drums at an early age. He discovered DJ culture when he moved to New York. At age 16, he began listening to the various hip-hop mixtapes released every few months by DJs. Inspired, Ronson confiscated his father's record collection and began trying his hand at mixing.