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Ronald Bell (musician), the Glossary

Ronald Nathan Bell (November 1, 1951 – September 9, 2020), also known as Khalis Bayyan, was an American composer, singer, songwriter, arranger, producer, saxophonist and co-founding member of Kool & the Gang.^[1]

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African-American woodwind musicians
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Al Jazeera English

Al Jazeera English (AJE; lit) is a 24-hour English-language news channel operating under Al Jazeera Media Network, which is partially funded by the government of Qatar.

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As One (Kool & the Gang album)

As One is the fourteenth studio album by the funk band Kool & the Gang, released in 1982.

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Atomic Kitten

Atomic Kitten are an English girl group formed in Liverpool in 1998, whose current members are Liz McClarnon and Natasha Hamilton.

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Big Fun (Kool & the Gang song)

"Big Fun" is a 1982 song by the American band Kool & the Gang.

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Blackstreet

Blackstreet (often stylized as BLACKstreet) is an American R&B group founded in 1992 by record producers Chauncey "Black" Hannibal, and Teddy Riley.

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Blue (English group)

Blue are a British boy band consisting of members Simon Webbe, Duncan James, Antony Costa, and Lee Ryan.

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Celebrate!

Celebrate! is the twelfth studio album by American band Kool & the Gang.

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Celebration (Kool & the Gang song)

"Celebration" is a 1980 song by American band Kool & the Gang.

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Cherish (Kool & the Gang song)

"Cherish" is a song by American R&B band Kool & the Gang, released in May 1985.

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Classical music

Classical music generally refers to the art music of the Western world, considered to be distinct from Western folk music or popular music traditions.

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Dance Club Songs

Dance Club Songs was a chart published weekly between 1976 and 2020 by Billboard magazine.

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Elwood, New York

Elwood is a census-designated place (CDP) in the Town of Huntington in Suffolk County, on Long Island, in New York, United States.

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Emergency (Kool & the Gang album)

Emergency is the sixteenth studio album by the American band Kool & the Gang, released in 1984.

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Everybody's Dancin'

Everybody's Dancin is a studio album by the American band Kool & the Gang, released in 1978.

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Forever (Kool & the Gang album)

Forever is the seventeenth studio album by the funk band Kool & the Gang, released in 1986.

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Fresh (Kool & the Gang song)

"Fresh" is a song by the American group Kool & the Gang.

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Funk

Funk is a music genre that originated in African-American communities in the mid-1960s when musicians created a rhythmic, danceable new form of music through a mixture of various music genres that were popular among African-Americans in the mid-20th century.

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Gangland (album)

Gangland is the twenty-first studio album by the band Kool & the Gang, released in 2001 following a five-year gap between albums.

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Gannett

Gannett Co., Inc. is an American mass media holding company headquartered in New York City.

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Get Down on It

"Get Down on It" is a 1981 song by American band Kool & the Gang.

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Golden Gloves

The Golden Gloves of America is an organization that promotes annual competitions of amateur boxing in the United States, in which winners are awarded a belt and a ring, and the title of national champion.

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Good Times (Kool & the Gang album)

Good Times is the third studio album, and fifth album of new material released by the funk band Kool & the Gang.

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Higher Plane (song)

"Higher Plane" is the name of a hit song by R&B/funk band Kool & the Gang and written by Robert Earl Bell, Ronald Nathan Bell, George Melvin Brown, Robert Spike Mickens, Claydes Charles Smith, Dennis Thomas and Rick Westfield.

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Hollywood Swinging

"Hollywood Swinging" is a 1974 song by R&B/funk band Kool & the Gang from their album Wild and Peaceful.

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Hollywood Walk of Fame

The Hollywood Walk of Fame is a landmark which consists of 2,783 five-pointed terrazzo-and-brass stars embedded in the sidewalks along 15 blocks of Hollywood Boulevard and three blocks of Vine Street in the Los Angeles, California district of Hollywood.

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In the Heart

In the Heart is the fifteenth studio album by the funk/R&B band Kool & the Gang, released on November 21, 1983.

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Jamiroquai

Jamiroquai are an English acid jazz and funk band from London.

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Jazz

Jazz is a music genre that originated in the African-American communities of New Orleans, Louisiana, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, with its roots in blues, ragtime, European harmony and African rhythmic rituals.

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Jersey City, New Jersey

Jersey City is the second-most populous, New Jersey Department of Labor and Workforce Development.

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Joanna (Kool & the Gang song)

"Joanna" is a song by Kool & the Gang from their 1983 album In the Heart.

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Jungle Boogie

"Jungle Boogie" is a funk record by Kool & the Gang from their 1973 album Wild and Peaceful.

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Kool & the Gang

Kool & the Gang is an American R&B, soul, and funk group formed in Jersey City, New Jersey in 1964.

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Kool & the Gang discography

This article presents the discography of American band Kool & the Gang.

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Kool and the Gang (album)

Kool and the Gang is the debut studio album by funk band Kool & the Gang.

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Ladies' Night (album)

Ladies' Night is the eleventh studio album by the American band Kool & the Gang, released in 1979.

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Ladies' Night (song)

"Ladies' Night" is a song by American band Kool & the Gang, released as the first single from their eleventh album of the same name (1979).

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Liberty X

Liberty X (originally called Liberty) are an English/Irish pop group originally consisting of Michelle Heaton, Tony Lundon, Kevin Simm, Jessica Taylor and Kelli Young.

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Light of Worlds

Light of Worlds is the fifth studio album, and seventh album of new material by the American R&B group Kool & the Gang.

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Lil' Kim

Kimberly Denise Jones (born July 11, 1974), Those giving 1974 include.

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Lisa Stansfield

Lisa Jane Stansfield (born 11 April 1966) is an English singer, songwriter, and actress.

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Live at PJ's

Live at PJ's is the second live album released by the funk band Kool and the Gang.

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Live at the Sex Machine

Live at the Sex Machine is the first live album released by the funk band Kool and the Gang.

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Love & Understanding

Love & Understanding is the seventh studio album by the funk band Kool & the Gang, released in 1976.

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McLean, Virginia

McLean is an unincorporated community and census-designated place in Fairfax County, Virginia, United States.

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Miles Davis

Miles Dewey Davis III (May 26, 1926September 28, 1991) was an American jazz trumpeter, bandleader, and composer.

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Misled (Kool & the Gang song)

"Misled" is a 1984 song by American R&B group Kool & the Gang taken from their album, Emergency.

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Music Is the Message

Music Is the Message is the second studio album, and the fourth overall album, by the funk band Kool & the Gang.

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Nation of Islam

The Nation of Islam (NOI) is a religious and political organization founded in the United States by Wallace Fard Muhammad in 1930.

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Open Sesame (Kool & the Gang album)

Open Sesame is the eighth studio album by the funk band Kool & the Gang, released in 1976 on Mercury Records.

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Open Sesame (Kool & the Gang song)

"Open Sesame" is a song recorded by Kool & the Gang for their 1976 eponymous studio album.

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Pop music

Pop music is a genre of popular music that originated in its modern form during the mid-1950s in the United States and the United Kingdom.

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Pride (Rachid song)

"Pride" is a song by American R&B singer Rachid, from his debut album, Prototype (1998).

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Quran

The Quran, also romanized Qur'an or Koran, is the central religious text of Islam, believed by Muslims to be a revelation directly from God (Allah).

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Rhythm and blues

Rhythm and blues, frequently abbreviated as R&B or R'n'B, is a genre of popular music that originated within African-American communities in the 1940s.

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Robert "Kool" Bell

Robert Earl "Kool" Bell (born October 8, 1950), also known by his Muslim name Muhammad Bayyan, is an American musician, singer & songwriter. Ronald Bell (musician) and Robert "Kool" Bell are Kool & the Gang members.

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Something Special (Kool & the Gang album)

Something Special is the thirteenth studio album by American band Kool & the Gang, released in 1981.

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Songwriters Hall of Fame

The Songwriters Hall of Fame (SHOF) is an American institution founded in 1969 by songwriter Johnny Mercer, music publisher/songwriter Abe Olman, and publisher/executive Howie Richmond to honor those whose work, represent, and maintain, the heritage and legacy of a spectrum of the most beloved English language songs from the world's popular music songbook.

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Soul music

Soul music is a popular music genre that originated in the African-American community throughout the United States in the late 1950s and early 1960s.

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Spirit of the Boogie

Spirit of the Boogie is the sixth studio album by Kool & the Gang, released in 1975.

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Spirit of the Boogie (song)

"Spirit of the Boogie" is a funk/soul song recorded by Kool & the Gang as the title track for their 1975 album.

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State of Affairs (Kool & the Gang album)

State of Affairs is the twentieth studio album by the band Kool & the Gang, released in 1996 following a four-year gap between albums.

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Steppin' Out (Kool & the Gang song)

"Steppin' Out" is a hit song for Kool & the Gang.

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Still Kool

Still Kool is a studio album by the band Kool & the Gang, released in 2007 on New Door Records.

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Stone Love (song)

"Stone Love" is a 1987 song written and performed by Kool & the Gang, issued as the second single from the band's 1986 album Forever.

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Summer Madness (instrumental)

"Summer Madness" is an instrumental tune that was released in 1974 by Kool & the Gang on their album Light of Worlds.

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Sweat (Kool & the Gang album)

Sweat is the eighteenth studio album by the band Kool & the Gang, released in 1989 following a three-year gap between albums.

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Take My Heart (You Can Have It If You Want It)

"Take My Heart (You Can Have It If You Want It)" or "Take My Heart" is a 1981 single by Kool & the Gang from their album, Something Special.

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The Force (Kool & the Gang album)

The Force is the ninth studio album by the funk band Kool & the Gang, released in 1977 on De-Lite Records.

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The Hits: Reloaded

The Hits: Reloaded is a studio album by the band Kool & the Gang issued in 2004 by Edel Records.

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The Spokesman-Review

The Spokesman-Review is a daily broadsheet newspaper based in Spokane, Washington, the city's sole remaining daily publication.

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Thelonious Monk

Thelonious Sphere Monk (October 10, 1917 – February 17, 1982) was an American jazz pianist and composer.

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Too Hot (Kool & the Gang song)

"Too Hot" is a song recorded by the American band Kool & the Gang for their first Platinum-selling 1979 album Ladies' Night.

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Unite (Kool & the Gang album)

Unite is the nineteenth studio album by the band Kool & the Gang, released in 1992 following a three-year gap between albums.

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United States Virgin Islands

The United States Virgin Islands, officially the Virgin Islands of the United States, are a group of Caribbean islands and an unincorporated and organized territory of the United States.

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USA Today

USA Today (often stylized in all caps) is an American daily middle-market newspaper and news broadcasting company.

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Warith Deen Mohammed

Warith Deen Mohammed (born Wallace D. Muhammad; October 30, 1933 – September 9, 2008), also known as W. Deen Mohammed, Imam W. Deen Muhammad and Imam Warith Deen, was an African-American Muslim leader, theologian, philosopher, Muslim revivalist, and Islamic thinker.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronald_Bell_(musician)

Also known as Khalis Bayyan, Khalis Bell, Ronald "Khalis" Bell, Ronald Nathan Bell.

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See also

African-American Sunni Muslims

African-American woodwind musicians

American funk saxophonists

Converts to Sunni Islam

Former Nation of Islam members

Kool & the Gang members

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