ronald isley
Ronald Isley (born May 21, 1941 in Cincinnati, Ohio, United States) is an American singer and is known as the lead singer and founding member of the family music group The Isley Brothers. [1]
Singer/composer Ronald Isley has enjoyed a successful career in popular music for more than 40 years. [2]
Singer/composer Ronald Isley has enjoyed a successful career in popular music for more than 50 years. [3]
Soul music legend Ronald Isley is probably better known to many as the lead singer of the legendary soul, funk and R&B group the Isley Brothers. [4]
Lead vocalist and composer for the Isley Brothers, 1950s-; recorded for several record companies including RCA, Atlantic, Wand, Tamla/Motown, Warner Bros., Island, and T-Neck. [2]
Lead vocalist and composer, Isley Brothers, 1950s-; recording artist, for such companies as RCA, Atlantic, Wand, Tamla/Motown, Warner Bros., Island, T-Neck, Epic, Dreamworks, and DefJam. [3]
Lead singer of the Isley Brothers. [5]
Ronald Isley was born the third of six brothers (O’Kelly Isley, Jr., Rudolph Isley, Ronald, Vernon Isley, Ernie Isley, Marvin Isley) to Sallye Bernice (Bell) and O’Kelly Isley, Sr. [6]
That year, they released the album of the same name and soon found mainstream success with their rock-infused That Lady, Pt. [4]
The Isley Brothers’ first RCA release, “Turn to Me,” went nowhere but their second release, “Shout,” was a huge hit on the rhythm and blues chart in 1959. [3]
Success continued for the Isley Brothers into the early 1980s when they scored a top 40 pop single “Don’t Say Goodnight” from the platinum selling album, Go All the Way. [2]
In 1954, when Ronald was only 13, he and his brothers, Rudolph, O’Kelly and Vernon Isley, formed the original lineup of what would become the Isley Brothers. [...] After several failed attempts, the brothers hit pay dirt after cultivating a song that had been created after the brothers’ inspired performance of Jackie Wilson’s “Lonely Teardrops” at a 1959 Washington, D.C. show. [1]
He began singing at the age of three, winning a $25 war bond for singing at a spiritual contest at the Union Baptist Church. [6]
By 1957, the band had abandoned their gospel roots for more secular affair recording doo-wop ballads and up-tempo numbers that went nowhere. [4]
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[5] Ronald Isley Discography at Discogs
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