Ronald Isley (pronounced /ˈaɪzliː/ ; 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 .
Biography
Career
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 . Ronald, like many of his siblings, began his career in the church. He began singing at the age of three, winning a $25 war bond for singing at a spiritual contest at the Union Baptist Church. By the age of seven, Ronald was singing onstage at venues such as the Regal Theater in Chicago , alongside Dinah Washington and a few other notables.
By his early teens, he was singing regularly with his brothers in church tours. In 1957, sixteen-year-old Ronald and his two elder brothers Kelly, 19 and Rudy, 18, moved to New York recording doo-wop for local labels before landing a major deal with RCA Records in 1959, where the trio wrote and released their anthemic "Shout " . For much of the Isley Brothers' duration, Ron Isley would remain the group's consistent member of the group as well as the lead vocalist for most of the group's tenure with sporadic lead shares with his older brothers. In 1969, Ron and his brothers reformed T-Neck Records in a need to produce themselves without the control of record labels, forming the label shortly after ending a brief departure with Motown . In 1973, the group's style and sound drastically changed following the release of the 3 + 3 album where brothers Ernie Isley and Marvin Isley and in-law Chris Jasper permanently enter the brothers' lineup, though the younger brothers had been sporadically providing instrumental help for the brothers since the late 1960s.
After Kelly Isley's death in 1986 and Rudy Isley's exit to fulfill a dream of ministry in 1989, Ronald has carried on with the Isley Brothers name either as a solo artist or with accompanying help from the group's younger brothers, much more prominently, Ernie Isley. In 1990, Isley scored a top ten duet with Rod Stewart with a cover of his brothers' hit, "This Old Heart of Mine (Is Weak for You) " and in 2003, Ronald recorded a solo album, Here I Am: Bacharach Meets Isley, with Burt Bacharach . In addition, Ron Isley became a sought-after hook singer for hip-hop acts such as R. Kelly , Warren G. , 2Pac and UGK .
Ronald plans on releasing his new album Mr. I on November 30, 2010. The album will include the first single "Close to You", featuring Lauryn Hill .
In 2010, Isley received a "Legend Award" at the Soul Train Music Awards , as well as performed with Kelly and others (aired on BET ).[3]
Personal life
In 1993, Isley married producer/composer/singer Angela Winbush in Los Angeles California. They quietly divorced in early 2002. . He has older children with various women, including daughter Tawanna. In September 2005 Isley made headlines by marrying background singer, Kandy Johnson (of the duo JS/Johnson Sisters); Johnson was 28 and Isley 63 . Their son Ron Jr was born in January 2007 . In 2004, while in London, Isley suffered a mild stroke, which halted an Isley Brothers tour there. In 2007, it was reported Isley had kidney problems and lived with a pacemaker[citation needed ] .
Tax Evasion
Isley was charged with and convicted of tax evasion charges. The Hollywood Reporter reports Isley was sentenced to 37 months in prison, instead of the maximum sentence, which would have sent Isley to jail for 26 years . Isley's sentence was affirmed by the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit . Isley was imprisoned at the Federal Correctional Institution at Terre Haute, Indiana , and was scheduled for release on April 13, 2010. He was moved to a half-way house in St. Louis, Missouri following an early departure that October. . After his sentence is completed, Isley will continue his career this year on his first tour since his sentence. Isley was released from a federal half-way house on April 13, 2010.
Isley is listed as one of California's most delinquent taxpayers, with a $303,411.43 debt from a lien filed on October 22, 2002.
References
- ^ http://psychedelichippiemusic.blogspot.com/2009/11/isley-brothers-success-at-its-best.html Isley Biography
- ^ http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1355/is_n12_v84/ai_14121790/?tag=rbxcra.2.a.22 Winbush Isley Marry
- ^ http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1355/is_10_108/ai_n15655326/ 63 Year Old Isley Marries 28 Year Old Johnson
- ^ http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1355/is_22_109/ai_n26699086/?tag=rbxcra.2.a.11 We're Having A Baby!
- ^ http://mediatakeou t.com/44791/wow_66_year_old_ronald_isley_photod_out_with_his_lovely_wife____whos_only_31_how_he_do_dat_at.html 66 Year Old Ron Isley, His 25 Year Old Backup Singer Wife Kandi, 3 year old son Ron Jr
- ^ Concepción, Mariel (September 5, 2006). "Ronald Isley Gets 3 Years For Tax Evasion" . Vibe. http://www.vibe.com/news/news_headlines/2006/09/ronald_isley_gets_3_years_for_tax_evasion/ .
- ^ See United States v. Isley, 2008 Tax Notes Today (Tax Analysts) 29-13, No. 06-50509 (9th Cir. 2008).
- ^ "Court Upholds Isley's Tax Evasion Sentence," Feb. 12, 2008, Billboard.com, at [1] .
- ^ See Federal Bureau of Prisons , prisoner number 31215-112, at [2] .
- ^ "Delinquent Taxpayers" . http://www.ftb.ca.gov/individuals/txdlnqnt.shtml . Retrieved 2010-06-22.
External links
- Ronald Isley at the Internet Movie Database
- Ronald Isley biography
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