Valerie (feat. Amy Winehouse)

Mark Ronson

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^{Mark Daniel Ronson, born 4 September 1975, is an English Brit Award and three-time Grammy award-winning music producer, artist and co-founder of Allido Records. His debut album Here Comes the Fuzz, focused on American hip hop. Despite including collaborations with Sean Paul, Nate Dogg and Ghostface Killah, it failed to make an impact on the charts.
"Valerie". Mark Ronson and Amy Winehouse covered "Valerie" for Ronson's second studio album, Version (2007). Released as the album's third single on 15 October 2007, the track was originally done when Winehouse appeared on Jo Whiley's Live Lounge show on BBC Radio 1.
The music video, directed by Robert Hales, was filmed in London on 28 August 2007. It shows Ronson and a group of jazz musicians inviting a woman from the audience onto their stage to "sing" the song (after they notice that Winehouse is not present), followed by  the woman's friends, in the style of group karaoke- although the women essentially mime to Winehouse's voice. A second video of the song has been produced for the Baby J remix, which features samples from the Winehouse/Ronson edition with a rap overlay that makes frequent reference to Ronson and Winehouse, as does the video itself. Rapper Wale can be seen in the beginning of the video.}

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