Biography
Tyson was born Ronald Tyson Presson in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and raised in Monroe, North Carolina. Before joining the Temptations in 1983, he wrote for them on their 1977 Atlantic album, Hear to Tempt You. That album (and the one after it) stiffed and they returned to Motown Records for four more albums with tenor Glenn Leonard before Tyson joined them.
Tyson was lead singer of a Philadelphia soul group called The Ethics, which later changed its name to Love Committee. His brother David Tyson is a member of singing group The Manhattans. In addition to his work as a singer, Tyson has written songs for artists such as The O'Jays, First Choice, Eddie Kendricks, Archie Bell & The Drells, The Four Tops, The Dells, Eddie Holman and Gloria Gaynor. Additionally, Tyson served as lead vocals for Tom Moulton's 12" releases on Casablanca Records, "I Don't Need No Music" and "Put Yourself in My Place."
Tyson, who succeeds Kendricks, Ricky Owens, Damon Harris, and Glenn Leonard as the Temptations' falsetto, has a tenure with the group that is third only to tenor Otis Williams, who has been in the group since its inception in 1960; and bass singer Melvin Franklin, who was in the group from 1960 until his death in 1995. As a side project, he released a solo Christmas album, Christmas...My Favorite Holiday, in 2004.
Read more about this topic: Ron Tyson
Famous quotes containing the word biography:
“As we approached the log house,... the projecting ends of the logs lapping over each other irregularly several feet at the corners gave it a very rich and picturesque look, far removed from the meanness of weather-boards. It was a very spacious, low building, about eighty feet long, with many large apartments ... a style of architecture not described by Vitruvius, I suspect, though possibly hinted at in the biography of Orpheus.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“In how few words, for instance, the Greeks would have told the story of Abelard and Heloise, making but a sentence of our classical dictionary.... We moderns, on the other hand, collect only the raw materials of biography and history, “memoirs to serve for a history,” which is but materials to serve for a mythology.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)