Terry Maxwell Ronald is an
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author, singer, songwriter, and music producer.
Biography
Born in South London, Ronald was a founder member and lead singer with the pop band ''
Gun Shy'',
[ who released one single "Just To Be Your Secret", which was Peter Powell's record of the week on Radio One. In the early 1990s, Ronald released solo album "Roma" on ]MCA Records
MCA Records was an American record label owned by MCA Inc., which later became part of Universal Music Group.
Pre-history
MCA Inc., a powerful talent agency and a television production company, entered the recorded music business in 1962 wit ...
,[ 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
Kylie Ann Minogue (; born 28 May 1968) is an Australian singer, songwriter and actress. She is the highest-selling female Australian artist of all time, having sold over 80 million records worldwide. She has been recognised for reinve ...
, Girls Aloud
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, Dannii Minogue
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, Sophie Ellis-Bextor
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, The Wanted
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, Westlife
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, The Saturdays
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, Lulu
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, Sheena Easton
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, Kim Wilde
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, Atomic Kitten
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, Geri Halliwell
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, Elouise and French pop starlet Lorie.[ In 2007, he appeared as a guest judge on the Judges' Homes section of The X Factor, alongside Dannii Minogue. 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, and The Hurly Burly Show.]Some Girl I Used To Know
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'' with Denise Van Outen.
In 2010, he wrote his first novel '' Becoming Nancy'',The Independent
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as "a deliciously camp rites of passage novel". The book was shortlisted for the 2012 Polari First Book Prize, and in January 2014 it was announced that Tony Award
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-winning director and choreographer Jerry Mitchell
Jerry Mitchell is an American theatre director and choreographer.
Early life and education
Born in Paw Paw, Michigan, Mitchell later moved to St. Louis where he pursued his acting, dancing and directing career in theatre. Although he did not g ...
had bought the rights to the musical stage version of the book, which opened in the U.S in 2019 at the Alliance Theatre
The Alliance Theatre is a theater company in Atlanta, Georgia, based at the Alliance Theatre, part of the Robert W. Woodruff Arts Center, and is the winner of the 2007 Regional Theatre Tony Award. The company, originally the Atlanta Municipal T ...
in Atlanta.
Personal life
Ronald lives in East Dulwich, South London with his civil partner
Civil partnership in the United Kingdom is a form of civil union between couples open to both same-sex couples and opposite-sex couples.
History
Civil partnerships were introduced for same-sex couples under the terms of the Civil Partnershi ...
, Mark.[
]
Discography
Solo albums
Solo singles
References
External links
ASCAP listing
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Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Musicians from London
English male singers
English songwriters
English record producers
LGBT musicians from England
LGBT writers from England
British gay writers
British male songwriters