The audiobook version of Be My Baby, narrated by Rosie Perez, is out on Tuesday Rachel DeSantis is a senior writer on the music team at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2019, and her work ...

Though he was known for contributing to some of the greatest acts in music (the Ronettes and Ike & Tina Turner), Phil was still a problematic man who eventually committed a deathly crime (via The ...

Zendaya has another big project in the works: She’s about to play the late Ronnie Spector, lead singer of the Ronettes, in an upcoming biopic. Deadline reported in March 2025 that Zendaya has been ...

Oscar winner Barry Jenkins will direct A24’s “Be My Baby,” a biographical drama about Ronnie Spector. Zendaya, who has been attached to the project since 2020, will portray the ’60s music icon. Before ...

Ronnie Spector, the cat-eyed, bee-hived rock ‘n’ roll siren who sang such 1960s hits as “Be My Baby,” “Baby I Love You” and “Walking in the Rain” as the leader of the girl group the Ronettes, has died ...

Music icon Ronnie Spector has died. The celebrated vocalist was 78. Spector -- who was born Veronica Bennett -- died on Wednesday after a battle with cancer, according to a statement released by her ...

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"Gay people made us. I love it. People have caught up. People have a chance to be who they are." That's just one of many great quotes writer Andre Torrez got in his July 3, 2014 interview with music ...

The film will cover Spector’s early years. The story will focus on how the Ronettes were formed and eventually signed to Philles Records, run by Phil Spector, who would later become Ronnie’s husband.