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Do'reen, a one time singer English R&B group Soul II Soul is dead after a robbery she was involved in went horribly wrong.

The 36 year old was shoplifting from a store in Sussex when she was caught by staff. She ran out of the store and into the oncoming traffic and was hit by three cars.

Do'reen, whose real name was Doreen Waddell sang lead vocal on the Soul II Soul hit "Feel Free" from their first album 'Club Classics Vol 1". The song was the second single from the album but failed to chart. It was Caron Wheeler out front of "Keep On Movin'" that made the act a success. Soul II Soul topped the charts with the song Back to Life on the same album, in which Caron Wheeler was the lead singer.

Waddell had not been active in the music industry for several years, and neighbours quoted by the Daily Telegraph newspaper said she did not talk about her time with Soul II Soul.

"She wasn't really earning the sort of money that she had done but she didn't let that get her down," the newspaper quoted Annie Ingham, a neighbour in Shoreham, as saying.

"You have to remember she had been a very successful singer who had appeared on television . . . and then suddenly it was all gone. She never resented that, but it didn't mean life was easy," she said.

Soul II Soul said it would not comment on Waddell's death.

She was attempting to shoplift from a Tesco store in West Sussex. Do'reen is survived by a 4 year old son.


By Paul Cashmere