Ronnie Spector

Career overview

Veronica Yvette Greenfield, known professionally as Ronnie Spector, was an American singer born on August 10, 1943, in Harlem, Manhattan, New York City, New York. She co-founded and fronted the girl group the Ronettes, sometimes earning the description of the original bad girl of rock and roll. Spector formed the singing group in the late 1950s alongside her older sister, Estelle Bennett, and their cousin, Nedra Talley. The group signed to Phil Spector's Philles label in 1963, and he produced the majority of their recording output during an era that yielded a string of hits in the 1960s. Among these successful releases were Be My Baby in 1963, Baby, I Love You in 1963, The Best Part of Breakin' Up in 1964, Do I Love You? in 1964, and Walking in the Rain in 1964.

Beyond her foundational work with the Ronettes, Spector later collaborated with Gerri Hirshey on a one-woman cabaret show titled Beyond the Beehive. Throughout her career, Spector amassed fifteen known credits in the acting category according to archival data from The Movie Database. Her life and career spanned decades until her death on January 12, 2022, at the age of seventy-eight.