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Ron Carroll
began his DJ career in the early 1980s in his own club called Bangin’
Enterprize and after a few years on Chicago’s South Side, started
associating with DJs like Lil’ Louis, Mike Dunn and the legendary
Ron Hardy. With a history of singing in gospel church choirs, Ron
started to sing gospel over house tracks and in collaboration with
Ron Trent, Big ED, Hula & K.Fingers released “My Prayer”
and “A New Day” on the Clubhouse Records label.
In 1994, Ron
ventured to the Winter Music Conference in Miami Florida for the
first time. On the third day he ran into Louie Vega and asked if
he could write for Masters at Work, a request that yielded the Billboard
#1 Dance Hit “I Get Lifted” featuring Barbara Tucker.
Following on from this success, producer Mike Dunn invited Ron to
work with himself and Byron Stingily in the Deep Soul Production
Co where he co-wrote, arranged, and sang background vocals for 6
tracks on Byron’s “The Purist” album out on New York’s
Nervous Records. Following this, Ron went on to work with producers
such as Frankie Knuckles, Mousse T, Boris Dlugosh and Maurice Joshua
and artists such as Destiny’s Child, Adeva, Kim English and
Kathy Brown – an experience that inspired him to become a full-time
artist and producer.
After two tough
years, Ron was introduced to Afterhours Records and produced the
solo artist tracks “Sounds” and “Stronger” while
also collaborating with producer Spero Pagos under the name Ministers
of Sound. At around the same time and while wanting to expand his
repertoire, Ron was introduced to Mazi from Fiat Lux Records in
France, just at the same time he was scouting for someone to write
and sing a new track… “Lucky Star”, the single taken
from resulting album “Hold Up”
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