[2] Scottish singer Lesley Rankine (born April 11, 1965)[3] began her music career as frontwoman for the London garage-psych band The Grizzelders, recording one cassette-only release called Making It Real Gear.
She then formed the noise rock band Silverfish, leaving the group after the release of their 1993 LP Organ Fan and then departing for Seattle.
[7][8] A remix album, Revenge, the Sweetest Fruit, appeared in 1996,[9] with a UK version titled Stroking the Full Length following a few months later.
In 1996 Rankine joined Tom Jones for a cover of the song "Kung Fu Fighting",[11] and later recorded a one-minute version of Lerner and Loewe's "Thank Heaven for Little Girls" for a Samuel Bayer-directed Mountain Dew commercial in which she also appeared.
[12] Rankine then moved to New Orleans, Louisiana, but only stayed only six months due to events including a rash of car-jackings and hold-ups in the surrounding areas, and the murder of a woman in the garden across from her home.
[13] For a short time Ruby collaborated with former Creation label members Mark Bowen and Dick Green, but by March 2008 no further recordings had been released.