Best Of: 'Barbie' Music Producer Mark Ronson / Model Bethann Hardison

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🗓️ 16 September 2023

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Grammy and Oscar-winning music producer Mark Ronson is known for his party hits, pop songs, soulful arrangements, and producing for stars like Amy Winehouse, Lady Gaga, and Adele. His latest project is the Barbie soundtrack and score.

We talk with Bethann Hardison about her 50+ year career as a trailblazer in the fashion world. She started modeling in the late '60s during the height of the Black is Beautiful movement. There's a new documentary about her life and career called Invisible Beauty.

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0:04.8	Pole by J.M. Coatsay. The Nobel Prize-winning author presents a new novel of
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0:14.5	available wherever books are sold. From W.H.Y.Y. in Philadelphia, this is
0:21.1	Fresh Air Weekend. I'm Tanya Mosley. Today, Grammy and Oscar-winning music
0:25.6	producer Mark Ronson. He's known for his party hits, pop songs, and soulful
0:30.3	arrangements, producing for stars like Amy Winehouse, Lady Gaga, and Adele. His
0:35.4	latest project is Barbie the Album, as well as the soundtrack for the film. Also,
0:40.8	do you remember the first time you saw a black model on the cover of a magazine
0:45.0	or walk down a runway? Chances are our guest Bethan Hardison had something to do
0:49.9	with it. She entered the fashion world in the late 60s as a model before
0:54.0	becoming one of the first black women to own a modeling agency. I come along
0:58.2	skinny boy-like, not being really truly in drudgesment in a way could be, you
1:03.9	know, because I wasn't trying to have makeup on and have hair pressed and all that.
1:08.5	A new documentary chronicles Hardison's life and career. It's titled Invisible
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