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Infobox musical artist|name = Ronald Isley|image =|occupation = Singer, songwriter, composer, record producer, actor|instrument = Vocals|Singing , keyboards , piano |background = solo_singer |birth_date = Birth date and age|1941|5|21|birth_place = Cincinnati , Ohio , United States |genre = Rhythm and blues , doo-wop , funk , soul music|soul , rock music|rock , smooth soul , quiet storm , contemporary R& B |years_active = 1954–present|website =|associated_acts = The Isley Brothers , Snoop Dogg , Angela Winbush , R. Kelly |label = RCA Records|RCA , Scepter Records|Scepter , Motown|Tamla-Motown , T-Neck Records|T-Neck / Epic Records|Epic , DreamWorks Records|DreamWorks , Def Soul / Island Def Jam Ronald Isley (IPAc-en|icon|'|a?|z|l|i?; born May 21, 1941) is an American recording artist, songwriter, record producer, and occasional actor. Isley is better known as the lead singer and founding member of the family music group The Isley Brothers .
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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. http://psychedelichippiemusic.blogspot.com/2009/11/isley-brothers-success-at-its-best.html Isley Biography 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 (music)|spiritual contest at the Union Baptist Church. By the age of seven, Ronald was singing onstage at venues such as the Regal Theater, South Side (Chicago)|Regal Theater in Chicago, Illinois|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 (Isley Brothers song)|Shout ." By the summer of 1959, the Isley family had moved from Cincinnati to a home in Englewood, New Jersey .Wilner, Paul. http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html? res=F40F1EF73F5F137B93C1A81788D85F438785F9 "Isley Brothers: A Family Affair", The New York Times , March 13, 1977. Accessed September 18, 2011. "WHEN Sallye Isley moved her brood of children from Cincinnati to Englewood in the summer of 1959, she was participating in a show-business phenomenon.... While their older brothers toured America, the younger Isley boys enrolled successively in Englewood Junior High and Dwight Morrow High School.... Right now, the brothers reside near enough to each other to keep in close touch. Ronald lives in Teaneck, Kelly Jr. in Alpine, Rudolph in Haworth and Ernie in Englewood."
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 tenure with Motown Records|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, writing the music and lyrics to the group's new sound. The younger brothers had been providing instrumental help for the brothers since the late 1960s. By the mid-1970s, Ronald was living in Teaneck, New Jersey .
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 (music)|hook singer for R& B veteran R. Kelly , and hip-hop acts such as Warren G. , 2Pac and UGK .
Ronald released his first solo album Mr. I on November 30, 2010. The album includes the first single "No More." It debuted at #50 on The Billboard 200, selling 22,243 copies. It was his first solo album to crack that chart.
In 2010, Isley received a "Legend Award," surveying Isley Brother music written largely by the younger brothers, at the Soul Train Music Awards .
Personal life
In 1993, Isley married producer/composer/singer Angela Winbush in Los Angeles California. They quietly divorced in early 2002. http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1355/is_n12_v84/ai_14121790/? tag=rbxcra.2.a.22 Winbush Isley Marry When Winbush received chemotherapy following her ovarian cancer diagnosis, Isley was by her side giving her his support in her recovery. He has older children with various women, including daughters Tawanna and Trenisha. In 2004, while in London, Isley suffered a mild stroke, which halted an Isley Brothers tour there. In September 2005, Isley made headlines when he married background singer Kandy Johnson (of the duo JS/Johnson Sisters), who is 35 years his junior. http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1355/is_10_108/ai_n15655326/ 63 Year Old Isley Marries 28 Year Old Johnson Their son, Ronald Isley Jr., was born in January 2007. http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1355/is_22_109/ai_n26699086/? tag=rbxcra.2.a.11 We're Having A Baby! http://mediatakeout.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 In 2007, it was reported Isley had kidney problems and lived with a pacemakerCitation needed|date=November 2010. He still lives in St. Louis.
Tax Evasion
Isley was charged with and convicted of Tax avoidance and tax evasion|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.cite web|url= http://www.vibe.com/news/news_headlines/2006/09/ronald_isley_gets_3_years_for_tax_evasion/|publisher=Vibe|date=September 5, 2006|author=Concepción, Mariel|title=Ronald Isley Gets 3 Years For Tax Evasion Isley's sentence was affirmed by the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.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 http://www.billboard.com/bbcom/news/article_display.jsp? vnu_content_id=1003709824. 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.See Federal Bureau of Prisons , prisoner number 31215-112, at http://www.bop.gov/iloc2/InmateFinderServlet? Transaction=NameSearch& needingMoreList=false& LastName=Isley& Middle=& FirstName=Ronald& Race=U& Sex=U& Age=& x=25& y=15. After his sentence was completed, 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.cite web|url= http://www.ftb.ca.gov/individuals/txdlnqnt.shtml|title=Delinquent Taxpayers|accessdate=2010-06-22
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