Tyrone Garfield "Ron" Kersey (April 7, 1949 – January 25, 2005) was an American

United States

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 keyboardist

Keyboardist

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, songwriter

Songwriter

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, producer

Record producer

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 and arranger

Arranger

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 most known for writing the music to "Disco Inferno

Disco Inferno (The Trammps song)

-Tina Turner version:Tina Turner covered the song in 1993 for the What's Love Got to Do with It soundtrack and it charted at number twelve in the UK Singles Chart, 4 places higher than The Trammps' version...

" by The Trammps

The Trammps

The Trammps were an American disco band, who were based in Philadelphia and were one of the first disco bands. The band's first major success was with their 1972 cover version of "Zing! Went the Strings of My Heart". The first disco track they released was "Love Epidemic" in 1973...

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Kersey was born in Philadelphia, PA, and served in the US Air Force. He was a member of the disco

Disco

Disco is a genre of dance music. Disco acts charted high during the mid-1970s, and the genre's popularity peaked during the late 1970s. It had its roots in clubs that catered to African American, gay, psychedelic, and other communities in New York City and Philadelphia during the late 1960s and...

 band The Trammps and received a Grammy Award

Grammy Award

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 for the soundtrack

Soundtrack

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 to Saturday Night Fever

Saturday Night Fever

Saturday Night Fever is a 1977 drama film directed by John Badham and starring: John Travolta as Tony Manero, an immature young man whose weekends are spent visiting a local Brooklyn discothèque; Karen Lynn Gorney as his dance partner and eventual friend; and Donna Pescow as Tony's former dance...

 which included "Disco Inferno". He was also a member of MFSB

MFSB

MFSB was a pool of more than thirty studio musicians based at Philadelphia’s famed Sigma Sound Studios. They worked closely with the production team of Gamble and Huff and producer/arranger Thom Bell, and backed up such groups as Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes, the O’Jays, the Stylistics, the...

 and The Salsoul Orchestra. Kersey suffered a stroke in 1997 and died in Philadelphia in 2005.

External links

• www.soulwalking.co.uk