Way back in June 2007, I was trying to ascertain whether or not Saundra had passed away. At the time, it was merely a rumour. I reached out to my pal Simon White, the DJ and soul music writer, because he had been involved with Ian Levine's Motorcity project, nd this was his response:-
As for Saundra, Ian Levine asked Yvonne Allen about this recently, and
according to Yvonne, Saundra did indeed pass away "four or five years
ago" but it seems her family wanted it kept private. It made
made me quite sad to hear this news. I spent time with Saundra while
she was in London recording with Ian and in fact had a few little
tourist days with her showing her round the capital. She was lovely.
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I was saddened that the re-grouped Elgins went with Yvonne rather than Saundra I had the sense that there was some bad blood between the gentlemen of the group and Saundra - there were unpleasant rumours - but I assumed it was simply that she decided to give up singing just when the Elgins seemed to be close to being big stars at Motown.
SWI