{"id":747677,"date":"2022-01-13T10:12:50","date_gmt":"2022-01-13T10:12:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/01\/13\/music-legend-ronnie-spector-who-sang-iconic-song-be-my-baby-dies-at-78\/"},"modified":"2022-01-13T10:12:50","modified_gmt":"2022-01-13T10:12:50","slug":"music-legend-ronnie-spector-who-sang-iconic-song-be-my-baby-dies-at-78","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/01\/13\/music-legend-ronnie-spector-who-sang-iconic-song-be-my-baby-dies-at-78\/","title":{"rendered":"Music Legend Ronnie Spector, Who Sang Iconic Song &#8216;Be My Baby&#8217;, Dies At 78"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-835940 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Ronnie-Spector.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"463\" height=\"446\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>The Ronettes icon Ronnie Spector has died aged 78.<\/p>\n<p>The news pf her death was made known by her family\u00a0on her official website on January 12.<\/p>\n<div class=\"td-a-rec td-a-rec-id-content_inline  tdi_2_530 td_block_template_1\"><span class=\"td-adspot-title\">Advertisement<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"td-all-devices\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/GiftCards-300x250-1.jpg\" alt=\"Gift Cards\"\/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>The statement read: \u201cOur beloved earth angel, Ronnie, peacefully left this world today after a brief battle with cancer.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe was with family and in the arms of her husband, Jonathan.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRonnie lived her life with a twinkle in her eye, a spunky attitude, a wicked sense of humour and a smile on her face.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe was filled with love and gratitude. Her joyful sound, playful nature and magical presence will live on in all who knew, heard or saw her.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn lieu of flowers, Ronnie requested that donations be made to your local women\u2019s shelter or to the American Indian College Fund.<\/p>\n<p><strong>READ ALSO:\u00a0<\/strong>Davido Deletes Post After Criticizing His Cousin\u2019s Election Campaign<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA celebration of Ronnie\u2019s life and music will be announced in the future. The family respectfully asks for privacy at this time.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ronnie was the leader of the girl group The Ronettes, who also celebrated hits such as \u201cBaby I Love You\u201d\u00a0and \u201cWalking in the Rain.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The group were also behind the hit Be My Baby.<\/p>\n<p>The Ronettes became one of the top acts of the 1960s girl-group era. The group toured England with the Rolling Stones and were friends of the Beatles.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 The Ronettes icon Ronnie Spector has died aged 78. The news pf her death was made known by her family\u00a0on her official website on January 12. Advertisement The statement read: \u201cOur beloved earth angel, Ronnie, peacefully left this world today after a brief battle with cancer. \u201cShe was with family and in the arms [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":747678,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[486,862,1482,1483,1484,1485,1486,1487,1488],"class_list":["post-747677","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nollywood","tag-baby","tag-dies","tag-iconic","tag-legend","tag-music","tag-ronnie","tag-sang","tag-song","tag-spector"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/747677","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=747677"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/747677\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=747677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=747677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=747677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}