About
North London's irreplaceable voice. 'Frank' (2003) was the precocious jazz-leaning debut; 'Back to Black' (2006) — written with Mark Ronson, played by Sharon Jones's Dap-Kings, mixed for AM-radio sepia by Tom Elmhirst — was a one-album rewrite of British soul that won five Grammys in a single night. The Ronnie Spector heartbreak and the Camden tabloid fishbowl were inseparable from the music; we lost her in 2011, age 27. The voice is one-of-one, and the catalog (two albums, half a dozen B-sides, a Body Snatchers cover) is permanent.
Tracks featured on snoopspecial
3 tracks of theirs made it onto 4 snoopspecial playlists , spanning 2016–2020. Each one was sequenced into a mix by hand — no algorithmic suggestions, no auto-recommendations.
- Valerie Weekend Kickoff Songs - The Bank (2020) Big Party Mix (2016)
- Back To Black Year In Review 2017 (2018) Your Top Songs 2017 (2017)
- Valerie (feat. Amy Winehouse) - Version Revisited Big Party Mix (2016)