Terry Ronald

Infobox musical artist
Name = Terry Ronald


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Background = non_performing_personnel
Origin = London, England
Occupation = producer, songwriter
Genre = Pop, Dance
Years_active = 1990–present
Label = MCA (1990-1992)
Thriller Jill Production (2002-Present)
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Terry Ronald ( London, United Kingdom) is a songwriter and producer from London who has worked with a variety of different singers and bands.

Biography

Ronald started out as lead singer with band "Gun Shy" who released on single "Just To Be Your Secret", which was Peter Powells record of the week on Radio One. He then became a solo artist and signed to MCA Records during the early 1990s. He moved on to songwriting and production. Together with Ian Masterson, he founded the production company Thriller Jill.

Ronald's diverse range of work includes songwriting and production for Lulu, Sheena Easton, Kim Wilde, Atomic Kitten, Girls Aloud, Geri Halliwell, Kylie Minogue and most extensively Dannii Minogue.

olo career

In the early 1990s Ronald achieved chart success with a pop career releasing an album and four singles.

He joined Robert Palmer and Hall and Oates on a European tour in 1990 in order to promote his solo material. After each of the performances, "Studio Sessions", a mini 10" album containing live studio recordings from Roma and two cover songs was distribued for free. During his time with MCA he became good friends with Australian pop diva Dannii Minogue and it was the start of over a decade of friendship.

A new career

Upon departing with his record label MCA in 1992, Ronald embarked upon a successful career in production and songwriting. Working with a diverse range of artists demonstrated his production and songwriting abilities.

Current projects

*Terry is in the studio at the moment working on EXCLUSIVE material with Dannii Minogue - check back for updates.
*Thriller Jill, the production partnership between Terry and Ian Masterson, are also currently recording an album. It is set to be a collection of eclectic electronic cover songs featuring various artists. Dannii Minogue has recorded an electro-ballad version of the Olivia Newton-John hit "Xanadu". The album, titled "Road Trip" and released on Petrol Records, will also feature vocals by Terry himself.
*Terry has very recently been working on live vocal arrangements for British boyband Westlife and British girlband Girls Aloud.
*In addition to this he is hard at work with Girls Aloud on the production of their forthcoming tour.
*Terry is currently working with hit production team LMC and Dannii Minogue

Discography

"What the Child Needs" featured on the European release of Roma released on 14 January 1992. Although not a major chart success in the UK it remained at number one in the Kiss Chart for many weeks. It is still cited by legendary soul DJ Chris Hill as his biggest crowd pleaser.

olo albums

Writing and production

References

* [http://www.ascap.com/ace/search.cfm?requesttimeout=300&mode=results&searchstr=1625829&search_in=c&search_type=exact&search_det=t,s,w,p,b,v&results_pp=20&start=1 ASCAP listing]

External links

* [http://terryronald.mysite.wanadoo-members.co.uk/ Terry Ronald fansite]
* [http://www.filecabin.com/up1/1148051753-Ronald.doc Terry Ronald biography]