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Home / Longevity / Healthy Aging / Ronnie DeVoe At 54: “It’s A Blessing”

Ronnie DeVoe At 54: “It’s A Blessing”

(photo credit: Ronnie DeVoe Instagram)

It’s been more than 40 years since the super group, New Edition came on the seen as a teen pop group sensation with hits like “Candy Girl,” “Can You Stand The Rain” and “You’re Not My Kind Of Girl.” It’s hard to believe that Ronnie DeVoe is turned 54 (yes, 54!).

DeVoe was the second-to-last member to join New Edition (Johnny Gill being the last) after being brought in by his uncle and the group’s choreographer, Brooke Payne. In 1981, the group took second place at a talent show which caught the eye of record producer, Maurice Starr, who signed them to his Streetwise record label. New Edition went on to become the biggest-selling boy band group from the mid to late 1980s.

(photo credit: Ronnie DeVoe instagram)

After New Edition’s 1990 breakup, Devoe and fellow New Edition members, Ricky Bell and Michael Bivins, formed the R&B/hip-hop group, Bell Biv DeVoe. Bell Biv DeVoe’s 1990 debut album, Poison, sold more than 5 million copies and garnered five hit singles such as “Poison” and “B.B.D. (I Thought It Was Me)?”.

“It is a great blessing to know that as New Edition we were trend setters,” DeVoe remembers. “And then in 1989 when word got out that NE were going their separate ways but Michael Bivens, Ricky Bell and Ronnie Devoe were getting together to form a group. We were trend setters.

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We took music in another direction. And a lot of hip hop and R&B has been building off of that. It’s a sense of accomplishment to know that we were there, along with a couple other groups before the record industry took that shift. But you can definitely see the influence in the (hip hop/R&B) genre today. No matter what club we go to around the country…18 + or 35+, we hear it in the club and it bang today like it banged 20 years ago. It’s a real blessing.”

 

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Like with many of his fellow bandmates, New Edition was not the end of DeVoe’s career.

With 30 plus years of longevity and worldwide exposure on television, radio and stage, Ron, has been able to use his notoriety and experience as a licensed real estate agent since 2002 to build a team of diligent, knowledgeable, and experienced Real Estate Professionals.

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