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And Finally
Ronson’s not a celebrity DJ, OK?
By CMU Editorial | Published on Monday 12 July 2010
Celebrity DJ Mark Ronson says he hates being dubbed a ‘celebrity DJ’, because he reckons it damages his rep. He says the term was applied to him by the media because he started DJing at celebrity parties, most notably Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes’ 2006 wedding, but adds that he wants us to all remember all the proper DJing he did before the c’leb gigs.
He told Digital Spy: “I made my name and reputation DJing in hip hop clubs in New York. ‘Celebrity DJ’ is a term that I hated. To me a celebrity DJ is someone that’s on ‘Big Brother’ or in some kind of B-movie who gets a gig to DJ even though they’re not talented enough to do it”.
He continued: “DJing is an art that I have the utmost respect for and I’ve been practising it since I was seventeen years old. Doing Tom Cruise wedding-type things becomes the focal point of every interview and you realise that you have to cut it [DJing celebrity parties] out if you don’t want to be answering questions about that”.
