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Film & TV
Known for
- Hair — '3-5-0-0' Soloist1979
- Putney Swope — Face Off Boy1969
- The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson — Self1962
- The Mike Douglas Show — Self1961
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Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- United States
- Active from
- 1950-06-05
- Active to
- 1990-11-10
Discography
- (If You Let Me Make Love to You Then) Why Can't I Touch You?1970
- (If You Let Me Make Love to You Then) Why Can't I Touch You?1970
- When You Get Right Down To It1971
- One Man Band1973
- The More You Do It1976
- Love in All Flavors1977
- If the Shoe Fits1979
- All Over Your Face B/w Don't Need You Now1983
- Brand New Day1983
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- Listeners
- 21,734
- Total plays
- 99,603
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Ronnie Dyson (Ronald Dyson, June 5, 1950 — November 10, 1990) was an American singer and actor. Born in Washington, D.C., Dyson grew up in Brooklyn, New York where he sang in church choirs. At just 18 years of age, he won a lead part in the Broadway production of Hair, debuting in New York in 1968. Dyson became an iconic voice of the 1960s with the lead vocal in the show's anthem of the hippie era, "Aquarius". It is Dyson's voice leading off the song and opening the show with the famous lyric "
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Washington, D.C.
- Place of death
- New York City
- Occupation
- film actor
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Native language
- English language
- Genre
- pop music
- Instrument
- voice
- Record label
- Columbia Records
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- date of birth
- 1950-06-05
- date of death
- 1990-11-11
- cause of death
- heart failure
- Commons category
- Ronnie Dyson
- start of work period
- 1968-00-00
- writing language
- English language
- manner of death
- natural causes
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