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Barbara Ann Alston, co-founder and lead singer of the hit-making Sixties girl group the Crystals, died February 16th in Charlotte, North Carolina. She was 74.

The singer's family told the Charlotte Observer that Alston died at a Charlotte hospital following a two-week battle with the flu.

Alston's daughter Donielle Prophete told the BBC, "She loved the Crystals. She always talked about singing with them, the work they created together. She loved the sisterhood part of it, the traveling."

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