{"id":2042024,"date":"2025-09-22T21:35:05","date_gmt":"2025-09-22T21:35:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2042024"},"modified":"2025-09-22T21:35:05","modified_gmt":"2025-09-22T21:35:05","slug":"chicago-house-music-dj-ron-carroll-dies-at-57-reports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/chicago-house-music-dj-ron-carroll-dies-at-57-reports\/","title":{"rendered":"Chicago house music DJ Ron Carroll dies at 57: reports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div data-article-body=\"true\">\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><strong>The Brief<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul class=\"mb-4\">\n<li class=\"ml-4 list-disc\">\n<div class=\"\">\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Chicago house music DJ and vocalist Ron Carroll reportedly died Monday at 57.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"ml-4 list-disc\">\n<div class=\"\">\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Friends and collaborators shared the news on social media, with one saying he died of a heart attack.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"ml-4 list-disc\">\n<div class=\"\">\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Carroll\u2019s voice and songwriting helped shape global house music in the 1990s and 2000s.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><span><strong>CHICAGO<\/strong> &#8211; <\/span>Ron Carroll, a legendary Chicago house music vocalist and DJ, died Monday at 57, according to multiple reports.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><strong>What we know<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Carroll\u2019s death was <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/story.php?story_fbid=24481078034846348&amp;id=100001124732770&amp;mibextid=wwXIfr&amp;rdid=fO3WRmiUB4OSDmW2#\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:shared on social media;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">shared on social media<\/a> by longtime friend and DJ Deonte Pennington. Chicago producer Stacy Kidd also <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/StacyKidd\/posts\/pfbid02micNthYGyqgST1DiYKYfQoWnDKqrCgcqVVy8JVXc2J3c21pRd6rbgE9sCnBrjVAMl\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:posted a tribute;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">posted a tribute<\/a>, noting Carroll died of a heart attack.<\/p>\n<div class=\"relative\"><img alt=\"&lt;div&gt;Ron Carroll | Photo from his Facebook&lt;\/div&gt;\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"960\" height=\"540\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"rounded-lg\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/s.yimg.com\/ny\/api\/res\/1.2\/fjnQE0KU0iF8jjtnvuqNIg--\/YXBwaWQ9aGlnaGxhbmRlcjt3PTk2MDtoPTU0MDtjZj13ZWJw\/https:\/\/media.zenfs.com\/en\/wfld_fox_local_articles_610\/d4a0c00961b1c13c722477753ebd4edb\"\/><span class=\"absolute bottom-0 right-0 rounded-full bg-white p-3 opacity-100 shadow-elevation-3 transition-opacity duration-300 group-hover:block group-hover:opacity-100 md:p-[17px] lg:bottom-6 lg:right-6 lg:bg-white\/90 lg:p-5 lg:opacity-0 lg:shadow-none\"><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"max-height:none;overflow:visible\">\n<p>Ron Carroll | Photo from his Facebook<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><strong>The backstory<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Carroll was born in Chicago in 1968. He began singing in church choirs before joining the city\u2019s growing house music scene, according to <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/edm.com\/news\/ron-carroll-death\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:EDM.com;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">EDM.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"max-md:faux-bleed mb-4 bg-marshmallow pb-5 dark:bg-ramones md:invisible md:mb-0 md:h-0 md:overflow-hidden md:pb-0\">\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<div class=\"flex w-full flex-nowrap justify-center\">\n<div class=\"flex ad-container\" id=\"_R_5it56mhak5clubsnm6fbH1_\">\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"mb-4 hidden pb-5 md:block\">\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<div class=\"flex w-full flex-nowrap justify-center\">\n<div class=\"flex ad-container\" id=\"_R_9it56mhak5clubsnm6fbH1_\">\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">His career reportedly took off after the 1994 Winter Music Conference in Miami, where he connected with producer Louie Vega and wrote lyrics for Barbara Tucker\u2019s &#8220;I Get Lifted.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Carroll went on to collaborate with house veterans Mike Dunn and Byron Stingily, and his booming vocals carried him to international acclaim, with hits like &#8220;Lucky Star&#8221; alongside French group Superfunk.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><strong>The Source<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The information in this story came from EDM.com and Facebook.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.yahoo.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Brief Chicago house music DJ and vocalist Ron Carroll reportedly died Monday at 57. Friends and collaborators shared the news on social media, with one saying he died of a heart attack. Carroll\u2019s voice and songwriting helped shape global house music in the 1990s and 2000s. CHICAGO &#8211; Ron Carroll, a legendary Chicago house [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2042025,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25173],"tags":[378053,378051,378052,378050,378049],"class_list":["post-2042024","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artists","tag-byron-stingily","tag-chicago-house-music","tag-dj-deonte-pennington","tag-house-music","tag-ron-carroll"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Chicago-house-music-DJ-Ron-Carroll-dies-at-57-reports.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2042024","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2042024"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2042024\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2042025"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2042024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2042024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2042024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}