Sparky D

Early life Doreen C. Broadnax was born on June 2, 1965 in Brooklyn, New York City to a Caucasian mother and a black American father. Broadnax was raised in the Van Dyke Housing Projects in the Brownsville neighborhood. During her time with the group, Broadnax was introduced to rapper and music producer Duane Hughes, known professionally as Spyder-D. Broadnax and Hughes then entered into a romantic relationship. After listening to Shanté's song on WBLS's Mr. Magic's Rap Attack on New Year's Eve 1985,

The aforementioned single kicked off the Roxanne Wars, a well-known series of hip hop rivalries during the mid–1980s, yielding perhaps the most answer records in history.