Ronnie White

Ronald Anthony White (April 5, 1938 – August 26, 1995) was an American baritone singer, best known as the co-founder of the Miracles and its only consistent original member.

[2] White helped Robinson compose several hit singles including The Miracles' "My Girl Has Gone", "A Fork in the Road" and also co-wrote the same group's "Don't Look Back".

In addition, he co-wrote Mary Wells' "You Beat Me to the Punch", Marvin Gaye's "One More Heartache" and The Temptations classic, "My Girl", which was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 1998.

This lasted until 1983, when White faced personal struggles following the death of his first wife, Earlyn Stephenson, who died from breast cancer that year.

Controversially, Ronnie White and the other original members of The Miracles, Bobby Rogers, Marv Tarplin, Pete Moore and Claudette Robinson, were not.

[5] However, The Miracles, including White, would later be retroactively inducted into the Hall of Fame by a special committee in 2012, alongside Smokey Robinson.

The Miracles, c. 1962. Clockwise from top left: Bobby Rogers , Marv Tarplin , White, Claudette Robinson and Smokey Robinson .