Hi everyone and thank you for joining us for the second annual live recording of the Hollywood

reporters awards chatter podcast here at the Newport Beach Film Festival. I'm the host Scott

Feinberg and my guest today for our 508th episode overall is one of the most understated and

also one of the most successful and influential figures in the world of music and he has been for

some 25 years even though he's only 48. As we will discuss he was one of the first and biggest

celebrity DJs a new phenomenon in the 1990s and he then transitioned into making music becoming one

of the most in-demand producers in the business. Indeed he has worked alongside the likes of Amy

Winehouse Bruno Mars Lady Gaga Paul McCartney Adele and so many other great artists along the way

he has received 12 Grammy nominations seven of which have resulted in wins including for producer

of the year and twice for record of the year the latter coming for his collaboration with Amy

Winehouse rehab and for his collaboration with Bruno Mars uptown funk. He was also recognized with

the best original song Oscar and Golden Globe for a collaboration with Lady Gaga shallow. In 2018 he

established his own label Zellig Records an imprint of Columbia Records and formed the duo Silk

City with fellow producer Diplo and this year he took his biggest steps yet into the world of

music for film with Greta Gerwig's Barbie the soundtrack of which he executive produced the score

of which he co-wrote and a number of the songs of which he co-wrote and or co-produced including

the duolipa single Dance the Night the Billie Eilish and Phineas single what was I made for

the Lizzo single Pink the Sam Smith single Man I Am and yes the Ryan Gosling single I'm just Ken

would you please join me in welcoming Mark Ronson

well thank you for being here it's been a lot of travel and hustling that you're doing at

the moment so thanks for squeezing this in and to begin with I just want to let people know can

you share where you were born and raised to kind of it's not as straightforward as it is for

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