Nedra Talley Ross obituary
Singer with the Ronettes girl group who renounced show business for gospel music
Her sweet smile made Nedra Talley Ross the odd one out in the Ronettes, whose other two members, her cousins Veronica and Estelle Bennett, faced the world with sultry stares as they climbed the pop charts in 1963 with their first hit, Be My Baby.
All three, however, shared a look borrowed from the tough girls in Spanish Harlem, the New York neighbourhood where they had grown up: piled-up hairdos, heavy eye makeup and slinky, shiny, skin-tight dresses.
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