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According to a brief statement from her family, Ronnie Spector’s family announced in a statement that the iconic singer passed away on Wednesday at the age of 78 after a “brief battle with cancer.”
As the lead singer of ’60s girl group The Ronettes, Spector changed the direction that females could take in music. The Ronettes brought a bad-girl attitude to pop music that had remained fairly clean-cut before they joined the scene. The group also included Spector’s older sister Estelle Bennett and their cousin Nedra Talley.




