Though the world knew her as Ronnie Spector, she was born Veronica Bennett in the Washington Heights district of New York City. According to The Associated Press, she came from a multi-racial ...

Ronnie Spector, whose towering voice propelled indelible early 1960s hit records including "Be My Baby,” “Baby, I Love You” and "Walking in the Rain," died Wednesday after a brief battle with cancer.

Veronica Bennett presented as a bad girl. Which she might have been, growing up as she did in Spanish Harlem with an Irish-American father and a mother half Black and half Cherokee. "Half breed" ...