McAuley Boys

The McAuley Boys
The McAuley Boys in 2010. Photo by Ian "Flash" Jennings
Background information
Also known as	McAuley
Origin	London, Ontario, Canada
Genres	Pop, R&B
Years active	1995 – present
Labels	80/20 Records Popular Records LLC Aquarius Records/EMI
Associated acts	Mac Graham
Members	Gary McAuley George McAuley Mark McAuley Randy McAuley

The McAuley Boys are an R&B vocal quartet based in London, Ontario, Canada. The members include brothers Ronald (Gary) McAuley, George McAuley, Mark McAuley, and Randal (Randy) McAuley. They are most notable for their 1997 Juno Award nomination for Best R&B/Soul Recording, having their cover of the Andy Gibb song "I Just Want To Be Your Everything" released on BMG Music Canada's Beat Factory Music GROOVEssentials Volume One, and performing the Canadian National Anthem "O Canada" at the 1997 Major League Baseball All-Star Game. They cite The Jackson 5 as being their main influence.

The brothers were born to Rita and Winston McAuley, a schoolteacher and social worker respectively, who immigrated to Canada from their native Grenada where both parents performed music professionally. Rita McAuley sang with her sisters as The Mark Sisters.

In 1992, while attending the University of Western Ontario (UWO) in London, Ontario, Gary McAuley began songwriting with a then-unknown Stephan Moccio. In an interview with Billboard magazine, Moccio states that the pair had written a song for Celine Dion, which they used as an introduction to Dion and her husband/manager René Angélil during a visit to the campus. In the same interview, Moccio states that throughout his four years at UWO, he and Gary McAuley would play jazz and R&B in local clubs around London. In a 2016 interview with Shad on CBC Radio One's Q, Moccio said the song "How Do I Win Your Heart" (co-written with Gary) earned praise from David Foster after they sent him a demo on cassette. The multi-platinum producer praised their strong songwriting skills, saying "You have the talent to go all the way." For Gary, this led to a brief mentorship session in L.A. with Foster.