Diana Ross (singer)

Diane Earle (Diana) Ross (Detroit, Michigan, March 26, 1944) is an American soul singer. She was familiar with The Supremes and has had a successful solo career.



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[hide] *1 Biography  ==Biography[ Edit] == ===Career[ Edit] === She was born in a family with six children. Together with Florence Ballard , Mary Wilsonand Barbara Martin, she formed The Primettes in 1959. After they got a contract withMotownin 1960, was the name of the Group changed in The Supremesin 1961. Barbara Martin left the Group shortly thereafter. In 1967 they were Diana Ross and the Supremes. Florence Ballard was fired by Motown owner Berry Gordy, and Cindy birdsong came on and they formed a singing trio again. The Supremes names twelve large hits on during this period, almost all written and produced by the trio Holland-Dozier-Holland.
 * 1.1 Career
 * 1.2 Personal
 * 2 discography
 * 2.1 Albums
 * 2.2 Singles
 * 2.3 Radio 2 Top 2000
 * 2.4 Dvds
 * 3 Filmography
 * 4 Trivia
 * 5 external links

Ross left the Group In October 1969 and she began a solo career that also proved successful. Her first big hit was a new version of the written by Ashford & Simpson Ain't No Mountain High Enough in 1970. She went on to star in a film adaptation of the life of Billie Holiday, Lady Sings the Blues. For her role, she received a Oscarnomination.

They brought in 1973 an album of duets with Marvin Gaye under the title Diana and Marvin. Diana Ross scored thus strengthening their some big hits. In 1975 she came back on the silver screen in the film Mahogany. The title song Do You Know Where you're Going To became a number 1 hit. Her second, self-titled album was in the top 10 right.

In 1978 Ross played the role of Dorothy in the film musical The Wiz. Michael Jackson reprised the role of scarecrow.

Her duet with Lionel Richie, Endless Love1981, turned out to be the best selling single of her career. It was her last hit on the Motownlabel. Accola has a contract with RCA, but after a couple of successful and less successful albums in the late 1980s they returned back to Motown. She had a contract until 2001.

Early 80 's began her career to go downwards. To avoid this The Bee Gees was contacted to write a hit for her. This cooperation resulted in the song Chain Reaction that came out in 1985. It was a big hit in England, where it was number one. In Netherlands, the song no higher than a tip-listing.

On 16 and 17 October 2009 was Ross the Symphonica in Rosso's headlining. Ross joined in the GelreDome Arnhem on for 34,000 people per evening. Because the Organizer TEG went bankrupt, Marco Borsato & friends gave two extra concerts to performances by Ross to be able to pay. ===Personal<span class="mw-editsection" len="339" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Ross has been married twice: with Robert Ellis Silberstein from 1971 to 1977 and with Arne Næss Jr. from 1986 to 2000. Næss died in 2004 as a result of an accident duringmountain climbing. Ross has two daughters with Silberstein and two sons with Næss. in addition, she has a daughter with Berry Gordy, who was born when Ross half a year with Silberstein was married. In 2009 she became grandmother when this (oldest) daughter a son. Ross was also named in the will of Michael Jackson as Governor for the children after his death.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-1" len="173" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"> [1] ==Discography<span class="mw-editsection" len="339" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">See also discography The Supremes. ===Albums<span class="mw-editsection" len="334" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === ===Singles<span class="mw-editsection" len="335" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === ===Radio 2 Top 2000<span class="mw-editsection" len="344" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === ===DVDs<span class="mw-editsection" len="333" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === ==Filmography<span class="mw-editsection" len="339" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == ==Trivia<span class="mw-editsection" len="335" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] ==
 * 1972: Lady Sings the Blues (nominated for an Academy Award for best actress in 1972)
 * 1975: Mahogany
 * 1978: The Wiz
 * 1994: Out of Darkness (TV movie)
 * 1999: Double Platinum (also a TV film)
 * Her first album Diana Ross (1970) was re-released the same year under the name Ain't no mountain high enough
 * Ross has six in the Billboard Hot 100 number-one hits to her name as a solo singer. If the twelve number-one hits as lead singer of The Supremes are summed, then they are equal with Elvis Presley in the total number of number-one hits.
 * She was also featured as lead on the number 1-single We are the world (USA for Africa).
 * A mixed sample of her hit "I'm coming out was used by the Notorious b.i.g. for his number 1-single Mo money mo problems.