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Ronald Wayne "Ronnie" Laws (born October 3, 1950 in Houston, Texas) is an American jazz, blues and funk saxophonist. He is the younger brother of jazz flautist Hubert Laws. Laws is the fifth of eight children born to Hubert Laws, Sr. and Miola Luverta Donahue. Laws attended Stephen F. Austin State University in Nacogdoches, Texas for two years. In 1972, Laws joined the fledgling group Earth, Wind & Fire, playing saxophone and flute on their album Last Days And Time. He left the band soon afterwards, long before they achieved their huge commercial success. In 1976, he began his solo...

Neoclassical rock guitarist, Yngwie Malmsteen, and ex-Black Sabbath frontman, Ronnie James Dio, cover the Aerosmith classic, "Dream On". .

Visually trained artist and non musician Ronnie Sundin (b.1973) has been recording and producing his own music for 15 years covering a wide range of styles within electronic and experimental music. During the second half of the '90s he operated under the name bad kharma with a string of self produced releases on his own BonBon Records imprint which showcased an interest in noisy tape collages combining influences from The Hafler trio, Merzbow and Illusion of Safety. During the first half of the '00s however, he investigated a gradually more and more quiet approach utilizing plenty of field recordings from...

Guitarist Ronnie Montrose began his career as a backing musician, playing with Van Morrison, Boz Scaggs, and Edgar Winter. He finally formed his own band in 1973. Named after the guitarist, Montrose also featured vocalist Sammy Hagar, bassist Bill Church, and drummer Denny Carmassi; they released their debut album in 1974, and Church was replaced by Alan Fitzgerald shortly after its release. Released the following year, Paper Money confirmed the band's status as one of the more popular hard rock acts of their era. However, Hagar was fired after completing the Paper Money tour. Bob James replaced him and keyboardist...