Ronald Isley is an American

United States

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 singer and is known as the lead singer and founding member of the family music group The Isley Brothers

The Isley Brothers

The Isley Brothers are a highly influential, successful and long-running American music group consisting of different line-ups of six brothers, and a brother-in-law, Chris Jasper...

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Ronald Isley was born the third of six brothers (O'Kelly Isley, Jr.

O'Kelly Isley, Jr.

O'Kelly Isley, Jr. , better known as Kelly Isley, was an American singer and one of the founding members of the legendary family group, The Isley Brothers.-Biography:...

, Rudolph Isley

Rudolph Isley

Rudolph Bernard Isley , better known as Rudy Isley, is an American singer-songwriter and is one of the founding members of the legendary family group, The Isley Brothers.-Biography:...

, Ronald, Vernon Isley, Ernie Isley

Ernie Isley

Ernest "Ernie" Isley is a member of the iconic American musical ensemble, The Isley Brothers.-Life and career:Ernie was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, where his older brothers formed The Isley Brothers, first as a gospel group, then as a secular-singing group. In 1960 his family moved to Englewood and...

, Marvin Isley

Marvin Isley

Marvin Isley was the youngest member of the family music group the Isley Brothers and its bass guitarist....

) 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

War bond

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 for singing at a spiritual

Spiritual (music)

Spirituals are religious songs which were created by enslaved African people in America.-Terminology and origin:...

 contest at the Union Baptist Church.