Ronnie Spector
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American singer (1943–2022)
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Ronnie Spector was an American female singer and rock and roll artist. Her career began in 1959 and concluded in 2021. She is associated with the genres of soul, pop, punk, and alternative rock. Her notable work includes the song "Be my baby," which she co-authored with Vince Waldron.
Spector was born in 1943 and died in 2022. She maintained an official website and had a presence on social media platforms. Her music has been tagged as female vocalists and american. She has been referenced by 327 other encyclopedia articles.
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Person · Open Library
- Works
- 1
Top works
- Be my baby
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Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Female
- Origin
- United States
- Active from
- 1943-08-10
- Active to
- 2022-01-12
Discography
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 45,866
- Total plays
- 258,853
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Ronnie Spector (born Veronica Yvette Bennett in New York City on 10 August 1943; died 12 January 2022) was the lead singer of the 1960's girl group The Ronettes, who most famously sang Be My Baby. She was the ex-wife of producer Phil Spector. Kept a near prisoner by Phil Spector throughout her teens and 20s, she eventually left the abusive relationship to raise her son, and re-establish her languishing singing career. Many attempts fell flat; even 1976's Say Goodbye to Hollywood <a href="https
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
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· 2015 · cited 29,161x
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· 2021 · cited 9,950x
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· 2020 · cited 9,188x
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- Sharing and community curation of mass spectrometry data with Global Natural Products Social Molecular Networking
· 2016 · cited 4,447x
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Key facts
- Website
- ronniespector .com
- Also known as
- Ronnie Bennett Ronnie Greenfield
- Born
- Veronica Yvette Bennett , ( 1943-08-10 ) August 10, 1943, New York City , U.S.
- Died
- January 12, 2022 (2022-01-12) (aged 78), Danbury, Connecticut , U.S.
- Genres
- Pop rock
- Occupation
- Singer
- Years active
- 1959–2022
- Labels
- Colpix Philles Columbia Apple Bad Girl Sounds
- Formerly of
- The Ronettes
- Spouses
- Phil Spector ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1968 ; divorced</span>"}]]}'>div. 1974 ) Jonathan Greenfield ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1982 )
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- female
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- New York City
- Place of death
- Danbury
- Spouse
- Phil Spector
- Sibling
- Estelle Bennett
- Occupation
- singer
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Genre
- pop music
- Instrument
- voice
- Record label
- Apple Records
- Official website
- www.ronniespector.com
- Image
- Ronnie Spector 1966.jpg
- Voice type
- mezzo-soprano
Show 14 more facts
- relative
- Nedra Talley
- Commons category
- Ronnie Spector
- date of birth
- 1943-08-10
- ethnic group
- Irish Americans
- hair style / hair length
- beehive
- social media followers
- 3169
- start of work period
- 1959-00-00
- birth name
- Veronica Yvette Bennett
- date of death
- 2022-01-12
- name in native language
- Ronnie Spector
- manner of death
- natural causes
- cause of death
- cancer
- end of work period
- 2021-00-00
- member of
- The Ronettes
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Encyclopedic overview
Veronica Yvette Greenfield (née Bennett; August 10, 1943 – January 12, 2022), known professionally as Ronnie Spector, was an American singer. Regarded as the "bad girl of rock and roll", she achieved international fame for founding and fronting the girl group the Ronettes.
Spector formed the singing group the Ronettes with her older sister, Estelle Bennett, and their cousin, Nedra Talley, in the late 1950s. They were signed to Phil Spector's Philles label in 1963 and he produced the majority of their recording output. The Ronettes had a string of hits in the 1960s, including "Be My Baby" (1963), "Baby, I Love You" (1963), "(The Best Part of) Breakin' Up" (1964), "Do I Love You?" (1964), and "Walking in the Rain" (1964). She married Phil Spector in 1968 and soon stopped performing publicly. Spector fled the home they shared in 1972, and filed for divorce in 1974. Afterwards Spector re-formed the Ronettes and began performing again.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Ronnie Spector” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.