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aka R.D., is one of the members of the R&B sextet New Edition

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born Ronald Boyd DeVoe, Jr. on November 17, 1967 in Roxbury, Massachusetts
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the last member to join the group after being brought in by his uncle (the group's choreographer) Brooke Payne

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In 1982, the group took second place at a talent show

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Their performance caught the eye of music impresario Maurice Starr who decided to manage the boys and signed them to his Streetwise record label

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The DeVoe Team

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and fellow New Edition members Michael Bivins, Bobby Brown, Ricky Bell and Ralph Tresvant, were the biggest teen group for the better half of the mid-1980s, almost achieving the success of their role models, The Jackson 5

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