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Diana Ross Biography

(1944–)

Related Works

Albums
1970 Reach Out
1970 Everything Is Everything
1971 Surrender

1971 I'm Still Waiting
1972 Lady Sings The Blues
1973 Touch Me In The Morning
1973 Diana and Marvin (with Marvin Gaye)
1974 Live At Caesar's Palace
1975 Mahogany
1976 Diana Ross
1977 An Evening With Diana Ross
1977 Baby It's Me
1978 Ross
1979 The Boss
1980 Diana
1981 To Love Again
1981 Why Do Fools Fall I Love
1982 Silk Electric
1983 Ross
1984 Swept Away
1985 Eaten Alive
1987 Red Hot Rhythm 'N' Blues
1989 Working Overtime
1989 Greatest Hits Live
1991 The Force Behind The Power
1993 Live, Stolen Moments
1993 Christmas In Vienna (with Placido Domingo, José Carreras)
1995 Take Me Higher
1999 Every Day Is a New Day
2006 Blue
2006 I Love You
Compilations
1981 All The Great Hits
1983 Diana Ross Anthology
1993 One Woman, The Ultimate Collection
1996 Voice Of Love
Singles
Singles
1970 Reach Out and Touch (Somebody's Hand)
1970 Ain't No Mountain High Enough
1971 I'm Still Waiting
1971 Surrender
1973 Touch Me In The Morning
1973 You're A Special Part Of Me (with Marvin Gaye)
1974 All Of My Life
1974 You Are Everything (With Marvin Gaye)
1976 Do You Know Where You're Going To (theme from Mahogany)
1976 One Love In My Lifetime
1980 My Old Piano
1980 I'm Coming Out
1981 It's My Turn
1981 Endless Love
1982 Muscles
1985 Chain Reaction

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Diana Ross official Web site

Singer and actress. Born on March 26, 1944, in Detroit, Michigan. An accomplished performer, Ross began singing in a group with friends Mary Wilson, Florence Ballard, and Barbara Martin as a teenager. Martin eventually dropped out, but the remaining members of the group went on to become the internationally successful 1960s R&B and pop trio, the Supremes (which was later Diana Ross and the Supremes).

Signed to Motown Records by famed record producer and label founder Berry Gordy, Jr., in 1961, the Supremes scored its first number one hit with the song "Where Did Our Love Go?" (1964). In all the trio scored 12 number one hits, including "Stop! In the Name of Love" (1965) and "Someday We Will Be Together" (1969).

Ross left the Supremes for a solo career in 1969 and hit the charts the next year with the songs "Reach Out and Touch Somebody's Hand" and "Ain't No Mountain High Enough." In 1972, she branched out into acting with the Billie Holiday biopic Lady Sings the Blues. While the film received mixed reviews, Ross's performance garnered her an Academy Award nomination for Best Actress. The soundtrack for the film was a huge success and helped spurn on new interest in Holiday. Ross went on to star in several more films, including Mahogany (1975) and The Wiz (1978).

The next decade started out on a strong note for Ross with her album Diana (1980), which contained the hits "Upside Down" and "I'm Coming Out." With her new record label MCA, she recorded "Muscles" (1982), written by Michael Jackson, which did well on the charts. Later in the decade, though, her sales began to falter. Still she continued to record and perform and returned to Motown Records near the end of the 1980s. Back with the label that launched her career, she achieved some success with The Force Behind the Power (1991).

In the 1990s, Ross made several appearances on the small screen. She starred in the 1994 television movie, Out of Darkness, playing a woman with schizophrenia. Ross took on lighter fare with Double Platinum (1999), another television movie. She starred as a famous singer who had abandoned her daughter to pursue her career. Brandy, a well-known pop performer, played her daughter. Some of the songs from the project were featured on Ross' 1999 album, Every Day Is a New Day.

Around this time, Ross experienced some personal difficulties. She got into a dispute with a security guard in 1999 at London's Heathrow airport and a result was arrested and detained for several hours before being released. The next year she was arrested for driving under the influence and later convicted. Also in 2000, Ross launched a Supremes tour, which was highly criticized for not including original member Mary Wilson or later addition Cindy Birdsong. After experiencing some problems, the tour was eventually cancelled.

In 2007, Ross suffered a great personal loss. Her father, Fred Ross, died in November of that year. "He touched many lives and he will be truly missed," Diana Ross said in a statement. On tour at the time, she returned home to Detroit to be with her family. A few weeks after her father's death, Ross honored by the Kennedy Center for her contributions to the arts. Smokey Robinson and actor Terrance Howard were on hand to provide tributes to the singing superstar, and Ciara, Vanessa Williams, and Jordin Sparks paid homage to Ross in song.