Doris Coley (August 2, 1941 – February 4, 2000)[1][2] was an American musician, who was best known as a member (and occasional lead singer) of the Shirelles.
Doris was the lead singer on their biggest hit, "Dedicated to the One I Love".
[3] With schoolmates Shirley Owens (later Shirley Alston Reeves), Addie "Micki" Harris and Beverly Lee, she formed the Shirelles in Passaic in 1958, one of the first all-girl groups of the rock era.
They performed their self-written "I Met Him on a Sunday" for Florence Greenberg and was signed to her Tiara label (the song was so popular, it was bought by Decca Records).
[4] Many years later, in 1994, when the Rhythm and Blues Foundation gave the Shirelles a Heritage Award, Kenner sang with the group's other surviving members, Alston Reeves and Lee, for the first time in 19 years (Harris having died in 1982).