Roni Size

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Roni Size (2009)
Roni Size (2009)
Chart positions
Explanation of the data
Albums
New Forms
  UK 8th 
platinum
platinum
07/05/1997 (33 weeks)
In the fashion
  UK 15th 
silver
silver
10/21/2000 (4 weeks)
Touching Down
  UK 72 11/02/2002 (1 week)
Singles
Share The Fall
  UK 37 06/14/1997 (2 weeks)
Heroes
  UK 31 09/13/1997 (2 weeks)
Brown paper bag
  UK 20th 11/15/1997 (3 weeks)
Watching Windows
  UK 28 03/14/1998 (2 weeks)
Who told you
  UK 17th 07.10.2000 (3 weeks)
Dirty Beats (feat. MC Dynamite)
  UK 32 03/24/2001 (3 weeks)
Lucky Pressure
  UK 58 06/23/2001 (1 week)
Sound Advice
  UK 69 October 19, 2002 (1 week)
Playtime
  UK 53 11/09/2002 (2 weeks)
Scrambled Eggs / Swings and Roundabouts
  UK 57 07.12.2000 (1 week)
Feel the heat
  UK 55 01/18/2003 (1 week)
Snapshot 3 / Sorry For You
  UK 61 02/22/2003 (1 week)
It's Jazzy / Play it for Me - Part II
  UK 86 04/12/2003 (2 weeks)
Siren Sounds / At The Movies
  UK 67 07/12/2003 (1 week)
Sound Advice / Forget Me Knots
  UK 61 09/06/2003 (1 week)
Strictly Social / Autumn
  UK 70 04/17/2004 (1 week)
Bambakita / Fassy Hole
  UK 60 04/24/2004 (1 week)
Out of Breath (feat. Rahzel )
  UK 44 10/09/2004 (2 weeks)
No More (feat.Beverley Knight)
  UK 26th 01/22/2005 (4 weeks)

Roni Size (* 29. October 1969 in Bristol , England as Ryan Owen Granville Williams ) is an influential drum-and-bass - producer and DJ.

Life

Roni Size grew up as the son of Jamaican immigrants in St Andrew's, a suburb of Bristol . When he was 16, he was banned from school and began attending house parties hosted by the Wild Bunch sound system , which later became Massive Attack , among other things . He learned the basics of music production in the local youth club before finally setting up his own studio.

In 1992 he met DJ Krust with whom he founded the music label Full Cycle Records a year later . In 1997 the double album New Forms was released by the music collective Reprazent , newly founded by Roni Size , for which he was awarded the Mercury Prize . According to the Guinness Book of Records 2002, it is considered the best-selling drum and bass album. In 2001, Roni Size discovered MC Tali , with whom he recorded the record Lyric on my Lip .

Discography

Albums

  • 1997: Roni Size / Reprazent - New Forms
  • 1999: Breakbeat Era - Breakbeat Era
  • 2000: Roni Size / Reprazent - In the Mode
  • 2002: Roni Size - Touching Down
  • 2004: MC Tali - Lyric on My Lip
  • 2004: Roni Size - Return to the V
  • 2008: Roni Size / Reprazent - Best of New Forms (Recall)
  • 2014: Roni Size - Take Kontrol
  • 2015: Roni Size / Reprazent - Live at Colston Hall

Remixes (selection)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Roni Size in the Official UK Charts (English)
  2. ↑ Music Sales Awards: UK
  3. ↑ a b c Mac Randall: Reprazenting Bristol . Yahoo! Music, January 2, 2001 (Interview with Roni Size and DJ Krust)
  4. ↑ biography at laut.de
  5. ^ Past Mercury Winners Gorillaz reject Mercury nomination . BBC News July 24, 2001
personal data
SURNAME Size, Roni
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Williams, Ryan Owen Granville (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British DJ (drum and bass)
DATE OF BIRTH 29th October 1969
PLACE OF BIRTH Bristol , England