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Mark Daniel Ronson was born in Notting Hill, London, England, to Laurence Ronson, a then music manager and publisher, now real estate developer, and Ann Dexter-Jones (née Dexter), a writer, jewelry designer, and socialite. His Ashkenazi Jewish ancestors emigrated from Austria, Lithuania, and Russia.
Mark Daniel Ronson was born on 4th September 1975 at St John’s Wood, London, the UK. His father Laurence Ronson is a real estate speculator and a music manager and his mother’s name is Ann Dexter. He has two younger sisters and three half-siblings from his father’s previous marriage.
Apr 16, 2015 · His stepfather Mick Jones co-founded the band Foreigner, and wrote its hit "I Want To Know What Love Is" for Ronson's mother. Ronson was born in London, but his family moved to New York when...
- Mark Ronson was born to a Jewish family in Notting Hill, London. He has two sisters, Charlotte and Samantha. Here they are as kids
- “My family was into their religion and Judaism. It’s funny because Conservative Judaism here is much stricter here than it is in America, so we were not quite Orthodox, but we observe the Sabbath, High Holy Days, that kind of thing,” Ronson explained.
- Growing up, Mark would attend Hebrew School two to three days a week. When he moved to NY with his mom and stepdad, he recalls, “I remember realizing that all the kids I knew were reading the stuff phonetically off the page, and I was just dumbfounded that they let kids do that.”
- “I would never change or give a second thought to living life differently to the way I am. It is troubling, for sure; it’s really ugly, and terrible things are going on all over the world right now,” Ronson said in 2015 of being Jewish.
Behind the board, Ronson discovered, he felt most at home. “He was always a person who was locked up in the studio,” says his sister Samantha. “Mark’s just a nerdy kid.”. And though he ...
Feb 6, 2015 · Rooted in funk, his was a study of genre, culture and history, fed by the impressive vinyl collection belonging to his band-manager father, Laurence Ronson. Dipping his toes in the club scene of New York City in the mid to late 90s served as a preview to the global audience for whom he would later craft his sound.
Jul 17, 2023 · Songwriter, DJ and record producer Mark Ronson has been through a period of renewal. Following divorce, he’s now happily remarried and has become a dad for the first time in mid-life. Not only that but he is turning his attentions to a new skill: composing a film score, as he tells Rolling Stone UK. By Rachel Felder. (Picture: Audemars Piguet)
