Ron LaSalle
Ron LaSalle (* in Niagara Falls, New York ) is an American rock singer and music producer.
LaSalle played bass professionally at the age of fourteen and performed regularly with blues and rhythm and blues bands in his hometown. He later founded the band The East Side Rockers , with whom he made around three hundred performances a year for ten years.
He then went to Toronto to focus on writing titles. It was here that his first single, Only the Strong Survive, was created . In Nashville , he then recorded for EMI with musicians like Garry Tallent and Max Weinberg , Richard Leigh , Bucky Baxter , George Marinelli , Jack Keller , Dennis Robbins and Buddy Blackmon .
He founded the Truth Management Company and shortly afterwards with Garry Tallent and Tim Coats the label D'Ville Records , where musicians like Greg Trooper and Steve Conn released.
In 2001 he released his first own album, Too Angry to Pray , which made it into the Top 20 Roots Rock / Americana lists in fifteen states. In 2007 the album Nobody Rides for Free followed , in which he increasingly reverted to his roots in blues music.
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| SURNAME | LaSalle, Ron |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American rock musician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 20th century |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Niagara Falls (New York) |