{"id":246839,"date":"2025-09-22T17:39:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-22T17:39:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/246839\/"},"modified":"2025-09-22T17:39:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-22T17:39:10","slug":"chicago-house-music-dj-ron-carroll-dies-at-57-reports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/246839\/","title":{"rendered":"Chicago house music DJ Ron Carroll dies at 57: reports"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\"><strong>CHICAGO<\/strong> &#8211; Ron Carroll, a legendary Chicago house music vocalist and DJ, died Monday at 57, according to multiple reports.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"WFLD\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">What we know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">Carroll\u2019s death was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/story.php?story_fbid=24481078034846348&amp;id=100001124732770&amp;mibextid=wwXIfr&amp;rdid=fO3WRmiUB4OSDmW2#\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">shared on social media<\/a> by longtime friend and DJ Deonte Pennington. Chicago producer Stacy Kidd also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/StacyKidd\/posts\/pfbid02micNthYGyqgST1DiYKYfQoWnDKqrCgcqVVy8JVXc2J3c21pRd6rbgE9sCnBrjVAMl\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">posted a tribute<\/a>, noting Carroll died of a heart attack.<\/p>\n<p>  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/ron-carroll-fb.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-v-0dea8073=\"\"\/> <\/p>\n<p data-v-0dea8073=\"\">Ron Carroll | Photo from his Facebook <\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"WFLD\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">The backstory:<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">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 href=\"https:\/\/edm.com\/news\/ron-carroll-death\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">EDM.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">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 data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">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=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\"><b data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source:<\/b> The information in this story came from EDM.com and Facebook.<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox32chicago.com\/tag\/us\/il\/cook-county\/chicago\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-6fc2855c=\"\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Chicago<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox32chicago.com\/tag\/entertainment\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-6fc2855c=\"\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Entertainment<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox32chicago.com\/tag\/news\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-6fc2855c=\"\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">News<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CHICAGO &#8211; Ron Carroll, a legendary Chicago house music vocalist and DJ, died Monday at 57, according to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":246840,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5124],"tags":[960,5404,171,5386,1818,50,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-246839","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-chicago","8":"tag-chicago","9":"tag-cook-county","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-il","12":"tag-illinois","13":"tag-news","14":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115249176477429917","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246839","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=246839"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246839\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/246840"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=246839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=246839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=246839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}