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Syreeta the Wonder Woman

Judith Sims, Rolling Stone, 2 January 1975

LOS ANGELES — Her name means "sweet singer" in India; in Swahili it means "one of uniqueness, or something like that," but Syreeta Wright claims it was just a name suggested by her Aunt Rose who didn't really know it was prophetic. "It was supposed to be Syredha, but the hospital put it down wrong and my mother just left it. That's how it's pronounced, though; it isn't Sir-ee-ta, it's Sir-ee-da."

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