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Ron Carroll is an American singer, songwriter and producer. He is primarily known in the house music circuit. Carroll has worked with many of house's most famous producers, including E-Smoove, Maurice Joshua and Bob Sinclar. He has also produced, usually with partner Spero Pagos, for other vocalists or his own songs.

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Career

Carroll was born in Chicago in 1968. As a boy, he learned to sing while a member of his church choir. As a teenager, he was a fan of rock band KISS, but became interested in house music when he attended a high school dance and spent time watching the DJ perform. Carroll started performing as a DJ in the late 1980s in a club he himself opened. He released his first official record, "My Prayer", in 1993, a track produced by local producers Hula (from the Outhere Brothers, Kay Fingers and Ron Trent. Because of his style of singing like a preacher, he received the nickname "The Minister of Sound".

In 1994, he got his first big break when he attended the World Music Conference in Miami. Still an unknown outside Chicago, Carroll walked up to Louie Vega, who gave him a chance to write the lyrics to Barbara Tucker's "I Get Lifted". This allowed the opportunity to join Mike Dunn's and Byron Stingily, also from the Chicago house scene, in the Deep Soul production company as singer, songwriter and producer. He wrote the lyrics for six tracks in Stingily's album The Purist and also wrote and produced the anthem "The Sermon". In 1996 he met Greek-American producer Spero Pagos, and the two created MOS Productions (for Ministers Of Sound), for the UC/Afterhours label.

In this label, he also met Mazi Namvar, who introduced him to the European house scene. This allowed him to take part in the French house classics "My Love" (produced by Kluster) and "Lucky Star" (produced by Superfunk), both released in 2000. The following year, he opened his own label, Body Music Records. Carroll's activities as a singer in Europe brought him into contact with Dutch producers Hardsoul in 2003, for whom he wrote and sang in "Back Together", followed in 2004 by "Wonderful World" for Bob Sinclar, a track that appeared in Sinclar's album Western Dream.

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Discography

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Albums

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Singles

Ron Carroll
RC Groove/RC Groove Project
  • 1998 "Sermon One EP", as RC Groove Project, with Mike Dunn
  • 2000 "The Sermon", as RC Groove Project
  • 2001 "Nothin' But Funk", as RC Groove
  • 2001 "Brighter Day", as 'RC Groove Project
  • 2001 "The RC Groove Project #2", as RC Groove Project
  • 2002 "Strings", as RC Groove
  • 2002 "High Again", as RC Groove, with Lady D
  • 2003 "Believe", as RC Groove Project, with Dawn Tallman
  • 2003 "Spirit Of The Dance", as RC Groove
  • 2003 "Superfreaque Music", as RC Groove, with Dino Vulpitta
Testament
  • 1999 "It Is Well"
  • 2000 "Work It Out", with Spero Pagos
  • 2000 "We Need Love", with Robert Collado
  • 2003 "Sun Is Shining"
  • 2005 "World Harmony"
Other aliases
  • 1998 "My Way", as Subculture, with Rick Garcia and Lejuan
  • 1998 "Feel It, Move It, Shout It", as Ron Carroll's Black Pearl, with Paul Walton
  • 2000 "Beautiful", as Ground Level, with Spero Pagos and Rheji
  • 2000 "Got To Hold On", as Ministers Of Sound, with Spero Pagos and Paul Walton
  • 2001 "Someday", as Ground Level, with Spero Pagos and Rheji
  • 2001 "Can You Feel It", as Subculture, with Rick Garcia
  • 2001 "Wait", as The RC Connection, with Mazi and Jackie Haywood
  • 2002 "Deep In My Soul", as Shay Coco Butta, with Josh Collins
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