Sandra Denton

Sandra "Pepa" Denton (born November 9, 1969 in Kingston, Jamaica) is an American R&B/hip-hop singer, and a member of the female rap trio known as Salt-N-Pepa. Her family moved to Queens, New York when she was a child. In 1985

Sandra "Pepa" Denton (born November 9, 1969 in Kingston, Jamaica) is an American R&B/hip-hop singer, and a member of the female rap trio known as Salt-N-Pepa. Her family moved to Queens, New York when she was a child. In 1985, while studying nursing at Queens Borough College, she met Cheryl 'Salt' James. They began rapping together under the name 'Salt-N-Pepa'. The duo made her debut that year, along with Cheryl, with an album called 'Hot, Cool, & Vicious'. In 1988, Deidre 'Spinderella' Roper joined Salt-N-Pepa, as their DJ. Sandra, Cheryl and Deidre released their second album, 'A Salt with a Deadly Pepa' in 1988. In 1990 Sandra had her first child, named Tyran. She made a guest appearance on "Ricki Lake" in 1993 teaching teenage girls the responsibilities of being a mother. She married longtime beau Treach of the rap group Naughty by Nature in 1999. They were divorced in 2001. The group disbanded in 2002, allegedly due to Salt's conversion to born-again Christianity. However, they reunited on September 22, 2005 and performed for the first time in six years as part of VH1's Hip Hop Honors program.