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Roni Size

Roni Size is an English drum and bass producer and DJ from Bristol, founder of the Full Cycle label who won the 1997 Mercury Music Prize for New Forms.

Roni Size / Reprazent

Roni Size / Reprazent, also known as Reprazent, is an English drum and bass collective formed in Bristol in 1996, best known for New Forms, which won the 1997 Mercury Music Prize.

Ronnie DeVoe

Ronnie DeVoe (Ronald Boyd DeVoe Jr., born 1967, Boston) is a New Edition and Bell Biv DeVoe singer-dancer, known for Poison (4+ million sold) and his Atlanta real estate firm.

Ronnie Drew

Ronnie Drew (Joseph Ronald Drew, 1934–2008), Irish folk singer and founder of The Dubliners, known for his gravelly baritone, 'Seven Drunken Nights', 'The Irish Rover' with The Pogues, and a distinctive flamenco-influenced guitar style.

Ronnie Dunn

Ronnie Dunn, born 1953 in Coleman, Texas, is the lead vocalist of Brooks & Dunn, the best-selling country duo, and a solo artist with albums including Ronnie Dunn and 100 Proof Neon.

Ronnie Hammond

Ronnie Hammond (Ronald William Hammond, 1950-2011) was the lead singer of the Atlanta Rhythm Section from 1972, voicing hits like So Into You and Champagne Jam before retiring in 2001.

Ronnie Hawkins

Ronnie Hawkins (Ronald Cornett Hawkins, 1935–2022), Arkansas-born rockabilly singer called Rompin' Ronnie and The Hawk, moved to Canada in 1958, led the Hawks, and mentored the musicians who became the Band.

Ronnie James Dio

Ronnie James Dio (Ronald James Padavona, 1942–2010), American heavy metal vocalist of Elf, Rainbow, Black Sabbath, Heaven & Hell, and his own band Dio; Holy Diver frontman who popularized the devil horns gesture.

Ronnie James Dio discography

Ronnie James Dio discography: albums and singles by the American metal vocalist across Ronnie Dio and the Prophets, Elf, Rainbow, Black Sabbath, his band Dio, and Heaven & Hell, 1963–2004 plus posthumous live and box-set releases.

Ronnie Lane

Ronnie Lane (1946–1997), English bassist and songwriter of Small Faces and Faces, founder of Slim Chance, collaborator with Pete Townshend on Rough Mix, died of multiple sclerosis.

Ronnie Milsap

Ronnie Milsap, born 1943 in Robbinsville, North Carolina, is a blind American country singer and pianist whose country-pop crossover sound produced 35 No. 1 country hits, six Grammys, CMA Entertainer of the Year 1977, and 2014 Country Music Hall of Fame induction.

Ronnie Montrose

Ronnie Montrose (1947-2012), American rock guitarist from San Francisco; session player for Van Morrison and Herbie Hancock, Edgar Winter Group lead guitarist, founder of the bands Montrose and Gamma, and influential instrumental solo artist.

Ronnie Platt

Ronnie Platt is an American singer and keyboardist, lead vocalist of Kansas since 2014, replacing Steve Walsh; formerly of Shooting Star (2007–2011), a former truck driver, and a thyroid cancer survivor in 2025.

Ronnie Radke

Ronnie Radke (Ronald Joseph Radke), born 1983 in Las Vegas, co-founded Escape the Fate and founded Falling in Reverse after a 2008 prison term; gold debut, platinum "Popular Monster", 2024 album Popular Monster.

Ronnie Scott's Jazz Club

Ronnie Scott's Jazz Club, founded by Ronnie Scott and Pete King on 30 October 1959 at 39 Gerrard Street, Soho, moved to 47 Frith Street in 1965; the first UK club to host American jazz musicians regularly.

Ronnie Spector

Ronnie Spector, born Veronica Yvette Bennett, was the lead singer of the Ronettes, known for "Be My Baby" and "Walking in the Rain," her memoir of her abusive marriage to Phil Spector, and her 2007 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame induction.

Ronnie Van Zant

Ronnie Van Zant, Lynyrd Skynyrd founding lead singer and songwriter from Jacksonville, Florida; wrote and sang Free Bird and Sweet Home Alabama; died in the October 20, 1977 Mississippi plane crash that ended the original band.

Ronnie Vannucci Jr.

Ronnie Vannucci Jr., Las Vegas-born drummer of The Killers since 2002 and frontman of the side band Big Talk; UNLV music graduate, former wedding chapel photographer, known for song-first drumming.

Ronnie Von

Ronnie Von, stage name of Ronaldo Lindenberg Cintra Nogueira, is a Brazilian singer and television presenter born in 1944, a pioneer of Brazilian psychedelic rock whose TV Record show launched Os Mutantes.

Ronnie Wood

Ronnie Wood (Ronald David Wood, born 1947) is the Rolling Stones guitarist, formerly of the Jeff Beck Group and Faces, co-writer of 'Ooh La La', painter, and two-time Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee.

Ronny J

Ronny J (Ronald Oneil Spence, Jr., born 1992, Camden, New Jersey) is a Miami-based producer and rapper of South Florida SoundCloud rap, known for distorted 808-heavy beats, the "Oh my god Ronny" tag, and OMGRONNY, Jupiter, and CHARGED UP.

Ronquières Festival

The Ronquières Festival is a three-day pop-rock festival held since 2012 at the Plan Incliné canal boat lift in Ronquières, Belgium, drawing up to 80,000 visitors.

Rooler

Rooler is the stage name of Christopher Rossi, an Italian-born rawstyle and raw hardstyle producer and DJ based in the Netherlands who co-founded Aggressive Records.

Room for Squares

Room for Squares is John Mayer's debut studio album, released June 5, 2001 on Aware Records and re-released by Columbia on September 18, 2001; 13 tracks, 54 minutes, produced by John Alagía.

Room on Fire

Room on Fire is The Strokes' second studio album (RCA, October 2003), produced by Gordon Raphael after scrapped Nigel Godrich sessions; 11 tracks in 33 minutes, Metacritic 77, Platinum, UK number 2, later reappraised with Pitchfork's 9.2.

Room Under the Stairs

Room Under the Stairs is the fourth studio album by Zayn, released May 17, 2024, on Mercury Records. Co-produced with Dave Cobb and recorded in a shoe cupboard at his rural Pennsylvania home, it shifts from R&B toward stripped-back, country-inspired material.

Roommates (Hilary Duff song)

"Roommates" (Hilary Duff song), released January 15, 2026 on Atlantic Records, is the second single from the album luck… or something; co-written with Matthew Koma and Brian Phillips, produced by Koma and Phillips, with a Matty Peacock-directed video.

Roommates (Malcolm Todd song)

"Roommates" is a 2023 single by American singer Malcolm Todd (Malcolm Hobert), produced with Charlie Ziman, released June 22, 2023 and later on the mixtape Sweet Boy; a TikTok-driven breakup song that led to his Columbia Records signing.

Rooney (band)

Rooney: Los Angeles power pop band formed 1999, fronted by Robert Schwartzman, brother of Jason Schwartzman. Debut album Rooney (Geffen, 2003) sold 500,000+ copies; first band to perform on The O.C.

Rooster (song)

Rooster (song): 1992 Alice in Chains track from Dirt, written by Jerry Cantrell about his Vietnam War veteran father nicknamed Rooster; fourth single (February 1993), peaked at number 7 on Billboard Mainstream Rock Tracks, with a Mark Pellington-directed video.