Ron Mael
Sign in to saveAmerican musician and co-founder of the band Sparks
Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1945-08-12
- Works
- 1
Top works
- In the Words of Sparks... Selected Lyrics
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 59
- Total plays
- 196
Ron Mael (born Ronald David Mael, 12 August 1945, Culver City, California, USA), is an American musician and songwriter. He and his younger brother Russell Mael, make up the core of the pop duo Sparks. Ron plays keyboard and writes most of the songs. When the band hit the peak of its popularity in the 1970s, he was well-known for his strange appearance, often remaining motionless over his keyboard. His conservative clothes and unfashionable toothbrush moustache attracted much attention, as does
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Social Identity Theory and the Organization
· 1989 · cited 31,504x
- Observational Evidence from Supernovae for an Accelerating Universe and a Cosmological Constant
· 1998 · cited 16,012x
- The Sequence of the Human Genome
· 2001 · cited 10,177x
- IntCal13 and Marine13 Radiocarbon Age Calibration Curves 0–50,000 Years cal BP
· 2013 · cited 9,512x
- Analysis of protein-coding genetic variation in 60,706 humans
· 2016 · cited 8,983x
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Key dates
- Born
- 12 August 1945
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Ron
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Culver City
- Occupation
- screenwriter
- Genre
- new wave
- Instrument
- keyboard instrument
- Record label
- Bearsville Records
Connections
Categories
1945 births20th-century American male musicians20th-century American musicians21st-century American keyboardists21st-century American male musicians21st-century American musiciansAmerican expatriates in FranceAmerican expatriates in the United KingdomAmerican male songwritersAmerican new wave musiciansAmerican people of Jewish descentAmerican synth-pop musicians