Roland Stone, Date of Birth, Date of Death
TweetRoland Stone
American singer
Date of Birth: 12-Aug-1941
Date of Death: 22-Dec-1999
Profession: singer
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Leo 
About Roland Stone
- Roland Stone (born Roland LeBlanc, 12 August 1941 – 22 December 1999) was an American rhythm and blues and pop singer who performed and recorded in New Orleans between the 1950s and 1990s.
- Singer Aaron Neville described him as "the singingest white guy I've ever heard".He was born in New Orleans, and in his teens played guitar in a Warren Easton High School band, The Jokers.
- In 1959 he was invited by Mac Rebennack (later known as Dr.
- John) to join his group, The Skyliners.
- He won a contract with Ace Records, but made his first recording, a version of the song "Junco Partner" re-worked as "Preacher's Daughter", for the Spinett label, set up by singer Frankie Ford and his manager Joe Caronna.
- For contractual reasons Caronna changed the singer's name to Stone.
- At the Ace label, he then recorded "Something Special", which was written and produced by Rebennack, and arranged by Allen Toussaint, and "Just A Moment", which became a regional hit and sold an estimated 100,000 copies.
- However, later records in the early 1960s, some released on Cosimo Matassa's White Cliffs label, failed to sell.In 1964, Stone quit the music business.
- He worked in New Orleans and then Texas – where he performed occasionally under his real name until the late 1970s – before returning to his home city in 1979 to work in his uncle's dry cleaning business.
- Following an approach from record producer Carlo Ditta, he recorded again with Dr.
- John in the 1990s, releasing two albums on Orleans Records, Remember Me (1994) and Live on the Creole Queen (1997).
- He also performed at local clubs and festivals, while working with his brother in a galvanized metal company.A compilation of his Ace recordings was issued in the UK in 1999.
- He died in New Orleans that year at the age of 58.
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