British musician
Terry Ronald
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Birth name
| Terry Maxwell Ronald
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Origin
| South London
, England
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Occupations
| Songwriter, producer, musician, author
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Years active
| 1987?present
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Labels
| MCA
(1987?1992)
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Website
| terryronald
.com
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Musical artist
Terry Maxwell Ronald
is an English author, songwriter, music producer and singer.
Biography
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Born in South London, Ronald was a founder member and lead singer with the pop band
Gun Shy
,
[1]
who released one single, "Just to Be Your Secret",
[2]
which was
Peter Powell
's record of the week on
Radio One
. In the early 1990s, Ronald released the solo album
Roma
on
MCA Records
,
[3]
[4]
from which four singles were released.
Ronald developed his career as a melody writer and lyricist, usually working with another writer. His musical work includes songwriting, production and vocal arranging for
Kylie Minogue
,
Girls Aloud
,
Dannii Minogue
,
Sophie Ellis-Bextor
,
the Wanted
,
Westlife
,
the Saturdays
,
Lulu
,
Sheena Easton
,
Kim Wilde
,
Atomic Kitten
,
Geri Halliwell
, Elouise and French pop starlet
Lorie
.
[1]
[4]
In 2007, he appeared as a guest judge on the Judges' Homes section of
The X Factor
, alongside Dannii Minogue.
[5]
He has worked as a vocal coach on music TV shows including
The Voice
,
The Voice Kids
,
All Together Now
and
Let's Sing & Dance for Comic Relief
.
Ronald has worked on the creative team of several West End theatre productions, including
Rent Remixed
, which starred
Denise Van Outen
, Siobhan Donaghy and Luke Evans,
[6]
and
The Hurly Burly Show
.
[1]
In 2013, Ronald co-wrote the musical one-woman play
Some Girl I Used to Know
with Denise Van Outen.
[7]
In 2010, he wrote his first novel
Becoming Nancy
,
[4]
published in April 2011 by Transworld and described by Suzy Feay in
The Independent
as "a deliciously camp rites of passage novel".
[8]
[9]
The book was shortlisted for the 2012 Polari First Book Prize, and in January 2014 it was announced that director and choreographer
Jerry Mitchell
had bought the rights to the musical stage version of the book, which opened in the U.S. in 2019 at the
Alliance Theatre
in Atlanta.
[10]
The first UK production of
Becoming Nancy
opens at
Birmingham Rep
in October 2024, for which Ronald has written five new songs along with
Elliot Davis
and
George Stiles
.
[11]
Personal life
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Ronald lives in East Dulwich, South London with his
civil partner
, Mark.
[4]
Discography
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Solo albums
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- Studio Sessions
(1990)
- Roma
(1991)
- Underworld Gospel EP
(2019)
Solo singles
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- "Calm the Rage" (June 1990),
MCA
- "Chains of Love" (February 1991), MCA
- "One More Dollar" (May 1991), MCA
- "What the Child Needs" (October 1991), MCA (re-released in 1992 with new mixes)
References
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