Jennifer Miro, Keyboardist/Vocalist for the Nuns, Dead at 54

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Jennifer Miro, best known as the keyboardist/vocalist in '70s San Francisco punk group the Nuns alongside Alejandro Escovedo, died last month in New York following a bout with cancer. She was 54.

According to a Jan. 4 story in San Francisco Weekly, Miro -- born Jennifer Anderson -- was suffering from liver and breast cancer and lived her remaining days in a Manhattan studio apartment. Refusing standard treatment, the musician died on Dec. 16 at Bellvue Hospital where she was receiving hospice care. Various message boards speculated on her passing over the holidays but nothing was officially confirmed until now.

Growing up in California, Miro met Escovedo and Jeff Olener to form the Nuns in 1975 and became known around the San Francisco punk scene. They are also noted for being one of the support bands playing the Sex Pistols infamous final show of their original incarnation at Winterland in January, 1978.