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 ...

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, and can be heard on the London station Mi-Soul. As one half of the dance production duo

, 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 "Dina" 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 (Carole King song)#Quartz version, It's Too Late" (1991), "Don't Be a Stranger (Din ...

which reached No. 8 on the UK charts in 1991. "Naked Love (Just Say You Want Me)" also reached the top 40 in 1991. He has also performed on releases by the Brand New Heavies 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

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awards in the categories of Best Radio Show and UK Best Club DJ and was voted Best Club DJ by readers of ''

Blues & Soul ''Blues & Soul'' is a British music magazine, established in 1967 by John Abbey. ''The Independent'' has noted ''Blues & Soul'' as being the equal of magazines such as ''NME'' and '' Q''. ''Billboard'' magazine has called ''Blues & Soul'' "a r ...

'' magazine in 2000. He was also nominated for Best DJ at the

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

2008.

References

External links

Official website
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