RON ISLEY OUT OF PRISON, NEW MUSIC FORTHCOMING

Legendary crooner, Ron Isley said regular visits from his wife singing gospel music weekly in the prison chapel helped him endure a 3-year prison sentence he recently completed. Isley, aka "Mr. Bigg", was imprisoned for tax evasion in 2006. Now that he's been released he's headed to the studio to work on an all-star album featuring old and new talent. “Some of the people that I'm working with on this album will be Lauryn Hill, T.I., Rick Ross and Burt Bacharach," Isley said in an interview with Steve Harvey. He also plans to record a gospel album.


While he was behind bars Isley, 69, bonded with some of the inmates.

“(I was) talking to young people and crying with them and people that were gonna be in there some years and that part really hurts,” Isley said, according to the Web site Singers Room. “They (inmates) looked up to me.”

Isley will be hit the stage in Atlantic City on May 8th and at The Paradise Theatre in the Bronx, NY on May 9th.