Ronnie Herel is a DJ, radio presenter, and previously a recording artist with

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production duo

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. Herel has hosted shows on

BBC Radio 1Xtra BBC Radio 1Xtra is a British digital radio station owned and operated by the BBC. It broadcasts black music and urban music, including hip hop and R&B and is a sister station to Radio 1. Launching at 18:00 on 16 August 2002, it had been cod ...

BBC Radio 1 BBC Radio 1 is a British national radio station owned and operated by the BBC. It specialises in modern popular music and current chart hits throughout the day. The station provides alternative genres at night, including electronica, dance, ...

, and can be heard on the

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station Mi-Soul. As one half of

, he had a number of hits in the early 1990s. The first of these was "Meltdown" followed by "It's Too Late" featuring the vocals of

Dina Carroll Geraldine Carroll (born 21 August 1968) is an English singer. She had a string of hits during the 1990s, including the UK top ten singles, " It's Too Late" (1991), " Don't Be a Stranger" (1993), "The Perfect Year", (1993), and "Escaping" (1996 ...

which reached no. 8 in the UK charts in 1991. He has also performed on releases by the

Brand New Heavies The Brand New Heavies is an acid jazz and funk group formed in 1985 in Ealing in west London. Centered around songwriters/multi-instrumentalists Simon Bartholomew and Andrew Levy, the core members of the group since its founding, Brand New H ...

and collaborated with Clubland. More recently, he worked with DJ LJ Blends. In the mid-late 1990s, he was co-director of the record shop Uptown Records. Herel broadcast on

between August 2003 and August 2012, including "The Basement" and "1xtra Chart show". In October 2012, he moved to Mi-Soul, initially hosting the Monday night "Big R&B show", and more recently weekday 'drive-time'. He has also previously been nominated for two

MOBO The MOBO Awards (Music of Black Origin, also known as the MOBOs) are an annual British music award presentation honouring achievements in " music of black origin", including hip hop, grime, UK Drill, R&B, soul, reggae, jazz, gospel, and Af ...

awards in the categories of Best Radio Show and UK Best Club DJ and was voted Best Club DJ by readers of Blues & Soul Magazine in 2000. He was also nominated for Best DJ at the

Urban Music Awards The Urban Music Awards (UMA) is a hip-hop, R&B, dance, and soul music awards ceremony which was launched by Jordan Kensington in 2003 and is now held in several countries. The US version of the award ceremony, the Urban Music Awards USA, was ...

2008.

References

External links

Official website
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