Sandy Denton
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- This article is about Sandy "Pepa" Denton. See Salt-N-Pepa for information on the group.
Sandra "Pepa" Denton (born 9 November 1969 in Kingston, Jamaica) is an American R&B / hip-hop singer, and a member of the female rap trio known as Salt-N-Pepa. Her family moved to Queens, New York when she was a child. In 1985, while studying nursing at Queensborough Community College, she met Cheryl "Salt" James. They began rapping together under the name 'Salt-N-Pepa'. The duo made their debut that year with an album called Hot, Cool, & Vicious. In 1988, Deidra "Spinderella" Roper joined Salt-N-Pepa, as their DJ. Denton, James and Roper released their second album, A Salt with a Deadly Pepa in 1988.
In 1990 Denton had her first child, named Tyran. She made a guest appearance on Ricki Lake in 1993 teaching teenage girls the responsibilities of being a mother. She married longtime beau Treach of the rap group Naughty by Nature in 1999. They were divorced in 2001.
Salt-N-Pepa disbanded in 2002 because Salt grew tired of the music business after a seventeen year run. Salt later became a born-again Christian. However, the group reunited on September 22, 2005 and performed for the first time in six years as part of VH1's Hip Hop Honors program.
In 2005, Denton was a cast member of VH1's The Surreal Life (season 5). Her acting credits also include the motion picture "Joe's Apartment", and a stint as Officer Andrea Phelan on the HBO drama, Oz. [1]
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