[2] Originally aspiring to be a nurse, Young's professional music career started after fellow Inkster High School classmate Gladys Horton asked her to audition for a spot left by Georgia Dobbins.

[2] Young sang co-lead on Marvelettes' songs, including singles "Locking Up My Heart" and "Too Many Fish in the Sea".

She went on to sing lead on several classics such as "Don't Mess with Bill" (a million-selling gold 45), "The Hunter Gets Captured by the Game", "When You're Young and in Love" and "My Baby Must Be a Magician".

They turned down the offer to sing "Where Did Our Love Go", and the song was instead given to the Supremes, while the Marvelettes recorded Too Many Fish in the Sea.

Another former Motown Artist, Kim Weston, encouraged her and helped rise above her problems to make her comeback.

[2] She made a brief return to performing in the early 1990s but without Marvelettes members Gladys Horton and Katherine Anderson.

On June 3, 1962, Wanda's first of four children, Meta (Young) Ventress, was born (Florence Ballard of the Supremes substituted for her in the Marvelettes during this period).

[6] In her later years, Young resided in Inkster, Romulus, Redford, and the Brightmoor section of Detroit.

She died from chronic obstructive pulmonary disease in Garden City, Michigan on December 15, 2021, at the age of 78.