fbpx
Wikipedia

Diana Ross

March 20, 2023

This article is about the American singer. For the English children's author, see Diana Ross (author).

Diana Ross (born March 26, 1944) is an American singer and actress. She rose to fame as the lead singer of the vocal group The Supremes, who became Motown's most successful act during the 1960s and one of the world's best-selling girl groups of all time. They remain the best-charting female group in history,[2] with a total of twelve number-one hit singles on the US Billboard Hot 100, including "Where Did Our Love Go", "Baby Love", "Come See About Me", and "Love Child".[3]

Diana Ross
Ross performing in 2022
Born (1944-03-26) March 26, 1944 (age 78)
Detroit, Michigan, U.S.
Occupations
  • Singer
  • actress
Years active1956–present[1]
Spouse(s)
​
​
(m. 1971; div. 1977)​

​
​
(m. 1986; div. 2000)​
Children5, including Rhonda, Tracee and Evan
RelativesBarbara Ross-Lee (sister)
AwardsFull list
Musical career
Genres
Instrument(s)Vocals
Labels
Formerly ofThe Supremes
Websitedianaross.com

Following departure from the Supremes in 1970, Ross embarked on a successful solo career in music, film, television and on stage. Her eponymous debut solo album featured the U.S. number-one hit "Ain't No Mountain High Enough" and music anthem "Reach Out and Touch (Somebody's Hand)". It was followed with her second solo album, Everything Is Everything (1970), which spawned her first UK number-one single "I'm Still Waiting". She continued her successful solo career by mounting elaborate record-setting world-wide concert tours, starring in a number of highly watched prime-time television specials, and releasing hit albums like Touch Me in the Morning (1973), Mahogany (1975), and Diana Ross (1976) as well as their number-one hit singles, "Touch Me in the Morning", "Theme from Mahogany (Do You Know Where You're Going To)", and "Love Hangover", respectively. Ross further released numerous top-ten hits on various Billboard charts throughout the 1970s, '80s, and '90s. She achieved several more global number-one singles, "Upside Down" (1980), "Endless Love" (1981), "Why Do Fools Fall in Love" (1982), "Chain Reaction" (1986), "If We Hold on Together" (1988) and "When You Tell Me That You Love Me" (1991).

Ross has also achieved mainstream success and recognition as an actor. Her first role was her Golden Globe Award-winning and Academy Award-nominated portrayal of Billie Holiday in the film Lady Sings the Blues (1972); she also recorded its soundtrack, which became a number one hit on the U.S. album chart. She also starred in two other feature films, Mahogany (1975) and The Wiz (1978), and later appeared in the television films Out of Darkness (1994), for which she was nominated for a Golden Globe Award, and Double Platinum (1999).

Ross was named the "Female Entertainer of the Century" by Billboard in 1976. Since her solo career began in 1970, Ross has released 25 studio albums, numerous singles, and compilations that have sold more than 100 million records worldwide.[4] She is the only female artist to have had number-one singles on the Billboard Hot 100 as a solo artist, as the other half of a duet, as a member of a trio, and as an ensemble member. In 2021, Billboard ranked her the 30th greatest Hot 100 artist of all time.[5][6] Her hits as a Supreme and a solo artist combined put Ross among the Top 5 artists on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart from 1955 to 2018.[7] She had a top 10 UK hit in every one of the last five decades, and sang lead on a top 75 hit single at least once every year from 1964 to 1996 in the UK, a period of 33 consecutive years and a record for any performer. In 1988, Ross was inducted to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of the Supremes, and is one of the rare performers to have two stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. She was the recipient of a Special Tony Award in 1976, the Kennedy Center Honors in 2007, the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award in 2012 and 2023 (the latter as a member of The Supremes), and the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2016.

Early life

 
The building that was part of the Brewster-Douglass Housing Projects in Detroit, where Ross spent her teenage years

Diana Ross was born in Detroit, Michigan, on March 26, 1944.[8][9] She was the second of six children born to Ernestine (née Moten; January 27, 1916 – October 9, 1984) and Fred Ross, Sr. (July 4, 1920 – November 21, 2007). Her mother named her Diane, but the birth certificate was mistakenly filled out with the name Diana. Her family and Detroit friends called her Diane all her life.[10] Ross grew up with two sisters (Barbara[11] and Rita) and three brothers: Arthur; Fred Jr.; and Wilbert, also known as Chico.

Ross and her family originally resided at 635 Belmont St., in the North End section of Detroit, near Highland Park, Michigan, where her neighbor was Smokey Robinson. When Ross was seven, her mother contracted tuberculosis, causing her to become seriously ill. Ross' parents sent their children to live with Ernestine's parents, the Reverend (pastor of Bessemer Baptist Church) and Mrs. William Moton in Bessemer, Alabama. After her mother recovered, she and her siblings returned to Detroit.

On her 14th birthday, in 1958, her family relocated to the working-class Brewster-Douglass Housing Projects, settling at St. Antoine Street. Ross attended Cass Technical High School,[12] a four-year college and preparatory magnet school, in downtown Detroit, and, aspiring to become a fashion designer, she took classes in clothing design, millinery, pattern making, and tailoring. In the evenings and on weekends she also took modeling and cosmetology classes (Ross has written that Robinson loaned her the funds required to attend these), and participated in several of the school's extracurricular activities, including its swim team. In 1960, Hudson's downtown Detroit store hired Ross as its first African American bus girl.[13] For extra income, she also provided hairdressing services to her neighbors. Ross graduated from Cass Tech in January 1962.

Career

1959–1970: The Supremes

Main article: The Supremes
 
Ross (far right) performing with the Supremes, as lead singer in 1966

When she was fifteen, Ross joined the Primettes, the sister group to a male vocal group called the Primes, after she had been brought to the attention of music manager Milton Jenkins by Primes member Paul Williams. Among the other members of the Primettes were Florence Ballard (the first group member hired by Jenkins), Mary Wilson, and Betty McGlown, Williams' then-girlfriend. After the Primettes won a talent competition in 1960 in Windsor, Ontario, A&R executive and songwriter, Robert Bateman invited them to audition for Motown Records.

Later, following the success of her live performances at sock hops and similar events, Ross approached William "Smokey" Robinson, her former neighbor (rumored to also have been her childhood boyfriend) about auditioning for Motown; he insisted that the group audition for him first. Robinson then agreed to bring the Primettes to Motown, on condition that they allow him and his group, the Miracles, to hire the Primettes' guitarist, Marv Tarplin (who had been discovered by Ross) for an upcoming tour. Tarplin ended up playing in Robinson's band(s) for the next 30-plus years. In her autobiography, Secrets of a Sparrow, Ross wrote that she felt that this had been was "a fair trade".

The Primettes later auditioned for Motown, before various Motown executives. In Berry Gordy's autobiography, To Be Loved, Gordy recalled that he had been heading to a business meeting when he happened to hear Ross singing "There Goes My Baby", and that Ross's voice "stopped me in my tracks". He approached the group and asked them to perform it again, but, after learning how young they were, Gordy advised them to finish high school before trying to get signed by Motown.[14]

Undeterred, the group began coming to Motown's Hitsville U.S.A. headquarters every day, offering to provide extra help for Motown's recordings, often including hand claps and background vocals. That year, the group recorded two tracks for Lu Pine Records, with Ross singing lead on one of them. During the group's early years, Ross served as its hairstylist, make-up artist, seamstress, and costume designer. In late 1960, having replaced McGlown with Barbara Martin, the Primettes were allowed to record their own songs at Hitsville's studio, many written by "Smokey" Robinson, who, by then, was vice president of Motown ("Your Heart Belongs to Me" and "A Breathtaking Guy"). Gordy, too, composed songs for the trio, including "Buttered Popcorn" (featuring Ballard on lead) and "Let Me Go the Right Way". While these songs were regional hits, they were not nationwide successes.

In January 1961, Gordy agreed to sign the group on the condition they change their name. Songwriter and Motown secretary Janie Bradford approached Florence Ballard, the only group member at the studio at the time, to pick out a new name for the group. Ballard chose "Supremes", reportedly, because it was the only name on the list that did not end with "ette". Upon hearing the new name, the other members weren't impressed, with Ross telling Ballard she feared the group would be mistaken for a male vocal group (a male vocal group was, indeed, named the Supremes). Gordy signed the group under their new name on January 15, 1961.

A year later, Barbara Martin left the group, reducing the quartet to a trio. In late 1963, the group had their first hit with "When the Lovelight Starts Shining Through His Eyes", peaking at No. 23 on the Billboard Hot 100 pop chart. At the end of the year, Gordy assigned Ross the role of the group's lead singer.

 
Ross with the Supremes in 1967

In June 1964, while on tour with Dick Clark's Cavalcade of Stars, the group scored their first number-one hit with "Where Did Our Love Go", paving the way for unprecedented success: between August 1964 and May 1967, Ross, Wilson, and Ballard sang on ten number-one hit singles, all of which also made the UK Top 40.[14] The group had also become a hit with audiences both domestically and abroad, going on to become Motown's most successful vocal act throughout the sixties.

Ross began to dominate interviews with the media, answering questions aimed at Ballard or Wilson. She pushed for more pay than her colleagues. In 1965, she began using the name Diana from the mistake on her birth certificate, surprising Ballard and Wilson who had only known her as Diane.[15] Following significant issues with comportment, weight, and alcoholism, Florence Ballard was fired from the Supremes by Gordy in July 1967, hiring Cindy Birdsong from Patti LaBelle and the Bluebelles as Ballard's replacement. Gordy renamed the group Diana Ross & the Supremes, making it easier to charge a larger performance fee for a solo star and a backing group, as it did for other renamed Motown groups. Gordy initially considered having Ross leave the Supremes for a solo career in 1966, eventually changing his mind because he felt the group's success was still too significant for Ross to pursue solo obligations. Ross remained with the Supremes until early 1970.

As the lead voice of the Supremes, she was really only the soul—or perhaps élan vital—of a machine, ready to plug into whatever arrangement, lyric, or show dress Berry Gordy and the Motown organization provided. She sang of the pain of love without appearing to suffer, but, that doesn't mean that the catch-phrases—'You keep me hanging on,' 'Where did our love go?' 'Love is like an itching in my heart, and I can't scratch it'—were softened or somehow corrupted. Instead, they were transcended with the vivacity that is Diana Ross' great gift. No matter how she is stylized, no matter what phony truism she mouths, this woman always lets you know she is alive.

— Robert Christgau, 1973[16]

The group appeared as a trio of singing nuns in a 1968 episode of the popular NBC TV series Tarzan. Between their early 1968 single "Forever Came Today" and their final single with Ross, "Someday We'll Be Together", Ross would be the only Supremes member to be featured on many of their recordings, often accompanied by session singers the Andantes or, as in the case of "Someday We'll Be Together", Julia and Maxine Waters and Johnny Bristol.[17] Still, Wilson and Birdsong continued to sing on recordings.

Gordy drove Ross relentlessly throughout this period and Ross, due to anxiety arising from Gordy's demands of her, began suffering from anorexia nervosa, according to her autobiography, Secrets of a Sparrow. During a 1967 performance in Boston, Massachusetts, Ross collapsed onstage and had to be hospitalized for exhaustion.

In 1968, Ross began to perform as a solo artist on television specials, including the Supremes' own specials such as TCB and G.I.T. on Broadway, The Dinah Shore Show, and a Bob Hope special, among others. In mid-1969, Gordy decided that Ross would depart the group by the end of that year, and Ross began recording her initial solo work that July. One of the first plans for Ross to establish her own solo career was to publicly introduce a new Motown recording act.

Though she herself did not claim their discovery, Motown's publicity department credited Ross with having discovered the Jackson 5. Ross would introduce the group during several public events, including The Hollywood Palace.[18] In November, Ross confirmed a split from the Supremes in Billboard. Ross's presumed first solo recording, "Someday We'll Be Together", was eventually released as a Supremes recording and became the group's final number-one hit on the Hot 100. It was also the final number-one Billboard Hot 100 single of the 1960s. Ross made her final appearance with the Supremes at the Frontier Hotel in Las Vegas, Nevada on January 14, 1970.[19]

1970–1980: Solo career and films

 
Ross as a guest star with football player and actor Rosey Grier, on the Danny Thomas television program Make Room for Granddaddy in 1971

In May 1970, Ross released her eponymous debut solo album, which included her signature songs, "Reach Out and Touch (Somebody's Hand)" and "Ain't No Mountain High Enough", the latter becoming Ross's first number-one solo single. Follow-up albums, Everything Is Everything (1970) and Surrender (1971) came out shortly afterwards. In 1971, the ballad "I'm Still Waiting" became her first number-one single in the UK. Later in 1971, Ross starred in her first solo television special, Diana!, which included the Jackson 5.

In 1971, Diana Ross began working on her first film, Lady Sings the Blues (1972), which was a loosely based biography on singer Billie Holiday. Despite some criticism of her for taking the role, once the film opened in October 1972, Ross won critical acclaim for her performance in the film. Jazz critic Leonard Feather, a friend of Holiday's, praised Ross for "expertly capturing the essence of Lady Day". Ross's role in the film won her Golden Globe Award and Academy Award nominations for Best Actress. The soundtrack to Lady Sings the Blues became just as successful, reaching No. 1 on the Billboard 200, staying there for two weeks, and selling two million units. In November 1972, Ross sung the song "When We Grow Up" for the children's album, Free to Be... You and Me.

In 1973, Ross had her second number-one hit in the U.S. with the ballad "Touch Me in the Morning". Later in the year, Motown issued Diana & Marvin, a duet album with fellow Motown artist Marvin Gaye. The album became an international hit. Touring throughout 1973, Ross became the first entertainer in Japan's history to receive an invitation to the Imperial Palace for a private audience with the Empress Nagako, wife of Emperor Hirohito.

In April 1974, Ross became the first African-American woman to co-host the Academy Awards, with John Huston, Burt Reynolds, and David Niven.

 
Actor Anthony Perkins photographing Ross in the film trailer for Mahogany (1975)

After the release of a modestly successful album, Last Time I Saw Him (1973), Ross's second film, Mahogany, was released in 1975. The film reunited her with Billy Dee Williams, her co-star in Lady Sings the Blues and featured costumes designed by Ross herself. The story of an aspiring fashion designer who becomes a runway model and the toast of the industry, Mahogany was a troubled production from its inception. The film's original director, Tony Richardson, was fired during production, and Berry Gordy assumed the director's chair himself.[20]

Gordy and Ross clashed during filming, with Ross leaving the production before shooting was completed, forcing Gordy to use secretary Edna Anderson as a body double for Ross. While a box-office success, the film was not well received by the critics: Time magazine's review of the film chastised Gordy for "squandering one of America's most natural resources: Diana Ross".[20] Nonetheless, Ross had her third number-one hit in the U.S. with "Theme from Mahogany (Do You Know Where You're Going To)".

A year later, in 1976, Ross released her fourth solo number-one hit, "Love Hangover", a sensual, dramatic mid-tempo song that bursts into an uptempo disco tune. Later that year, Ross launched her "An Evening with Diana Ross" tour. The tour's success led to a two-week stint at Broadway's Palace Theatre and a 90-minute, Emmy-nominated television special of the same name, featuring special make-up effects by Stan Winston, for a scene in which Ross portrayed legendary cabaret artist Josephine Baker and blues singers Bessie Smith and Ethel Waters,[21] and a Special Tony Award.[22]

The albums Baby It's Me (1977) and Ross (1978) sold modestly.

In 1977, Motown had acquired the film rights to the Broadway play The Wiz, an African-American reinterpretation of L. Frank Baum's The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. The film initially was to include the stage actors who had performed on the play, but producer Rob Cohen could not garner the interest of any major Hollywood film studios. It was not until Ross convinced Cohen to cast her (instead of Stephanie Mills, who portrayed Dorothy on Broadway) as Dorothy that Universal Pictures agreed to finance the production.

This casting decision led to a change in the film's script, in which Dorothy went from a schoolgirl to a schoolteacher. The role of the Scarecrow, also performed by someone else onstage, was eventually given to Ross's former Motown labelmate, Michael Jackson. Ross and Jackson had a modest dance hit with their recording for the film of "Ease on Down the Road". Their second duet, actually as part of the ensemble of The Wiz, "Brand New Day", found some success overseas.

The film adaptation of The Wiz had been a $24 million production, but upon its October 1978 release, it earned only $21,049,053 at the box office.[23][24][25] Though pre-release television broadcast rights had been sold to CBS for over $10 million, the film produced a net loss of $10.4 million for Motown and Universal.[24][25] At the time, it was the most expensive film musical ever made.[26] The film's failure ended Ross's short career on the big screen and contributed to the Hollywood studios' reluctance to produce the all-black film projects which had become popular during the blaxploitation era of the early to mid-1970s for several years.[27][28][29]

In 1979, Ross released The Boss, continuing her popularity with dance audiences, as the title song became a number-one dance single. On July 16, 1979, Ross guest-hosted an episode of Johnny Carson's The Tonight Show, featuring Lynda Carter, George Carlin, and Muhammad Ali as guests.[30] Later that year, Ross hosted the HBO special, Standing Room Only, filmed at Caesars Palace's Circus Maximus Theater in Las Vegas, Nevada, during her "Tour '79" concert tour.[31] This concert special is noted for its opening, during which Ross literally makes her entrance through a movie screen. In November of that year, Ross performed The Boss album's title track as a featured artist during the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade, in New York City.[32]

In 1980, Ross released her most successful album to date, Diana. Composed by Chic's guitarist Nile Rodgers and bassist Bernard Edwards, the album included the hits "I'm Coming Out" and "Upside Down", the latter becoming her fifth chart-topping single in the U.S.

Ross scored a Top 10 hit in late 1980 with the theme song to the film It's My Turn. Continuing her connections with Hollywood, Ross recorded the duet ballad "Endless Love", with Lionel Richie. The song would become her sixth and final single to reach number one on the Billboard Hot 100.

1981–1987: Leaving Motown and RCA years

 
Ross in 1981

Ross began negotiations to leave Motown at the end of 1980. After over 20 years with the label, Ross received US$250,000 as severance. RCA Records offered Ross a $20 million, seven-year recording contract, which gave her complete production control of her albums. Before signing onto the label, Ross allegedly asked Berry Gordy if he could match RCA's offer. Gordy stated that doing so was "impossible". Ross then signed with RCA on May 20, 1981. At the time, Ross's was music history's most expensive recording deal.

In October 1981, Ross released her first RCA album, Why Do Fools Fall in Love. The album sold over a million copies and featured hit singles such as her remake of the classic hit of the same name and "Mirror Mirror". Shortly thereafter, Ross established her production company, named Anaid Productions ("Diana" spelled backwards), and also began investing in real estate and touring extensively in the United States and abroad.

Before the release of Why Do Fools Fall in Love, Ross hosted her first TV special in four years, Diana. Directed by Steve Binder, the concert portions of the special were filmed at Inglewood, California's 17,500-seat The Forum indoor stadium and featured performances by Michael Jackson, Muhammad Ali, Dallas actor Larry Hagman, music impresario Quincy Jones and members of the Joffrey Ballet.[33][34]

In early 1982, Ross sang "The Star-Spangled Banner" at Super Bowl XVI[35] and appeared on the musical variety show Soul Train.[36] The episode, devoted completely to her, featured Ross performing several songs from Why Do Fools Fall in Love.

On May 6, 1982, Ross was honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.[37] She followed up the success of Why Do Fools Fall in Love with Silk Electric, which featured the Michael Jackson-written and -produced "Muscles", resulting in another Top 10 Grammy nominated success for Ross. The album eventually went gold on the strength of that song. In 1983, Ross ventured further out of her earlier soul-based sound for a more pop rock-oriented sound following the release of the Ross album. Though the album featured the Top 40 hit single, "Pieces of Ice", the Ross album did not generate any more hits or achieve gold status.

On July 21, 1983, Ross performed a free concert on Central Park's Great Lawn, aired live worldwide by Showtime. Proceeds of the concert would be donated to build a playground in the singer's name. Midway through the beginning of the show, a torrential downpour began. Ross tried to continue performing, but the severe weather forced the show to be stopped after 45 minutes. Ross urged the large crowd to exit the venue safely, promising to perform the next day.

The next day's concert suffered no rain, but the memorabilia that was supposed to be sold to raise money for the playground had already been destroyed by the storm. When journalists discovered the exorbitant costs of the two concerts, Ross faced criticism from Mayor Ed Koch and the Parks Department commissioner. During a subsequent mayoral press conference, Ross handed Koch a check for US$250,000 for the project.[38] The Diana Ross Playground was built three years later.[39]

In 1984, Ross released Swept Away. The album featured "All of You", a duet with friend Julio Iglesias. The single was featured on both Ross's album and Iglesias's 1100 Bel Air Place, his first English-language album. It became an international hit, as did the Lionel Richie-penned ballad "Missing You", composed as a tribute to Marvin Gaye, who had been killed earlier that year. Swept Away garnered gold record sales status.

Her 1985 album Eaten Alive, produced by Barry Gibb of the Bee Gees, garnered a number one single overseas and a Top 20 spot on the album charts. The song "Chain Reaction" reached number one in the U.K., Australia, South Africa, Israel and Ireland, and the title track, a collaboration with Michael Jackson and Gibb, also performed well. Both songs had strong music videos that propelled the tracks to success. The "Eaten Alive" video was patterned after the 1970s horror film The Island of Dr. Moreau, while the one for "Chain Reaction" saluted the 1960s American Bandstand-style TV shows. The video for "Experience", the third single from the album, reignited the "Eaten Alive" romantic storyline with Ross and actor Joseph Gian.

Earlier in 1985, Ross appeared as part of USA for Africa's "We Are the World" charity single, which sold over 20 million copies worldwide. Ross's 1987 follow-up to Eaten Alive, Red Hot Rhythm & Blues found less success; it reached No. 39 on the Billboard Top R&B Albums chart and No. 12 in Sweden. However, the album's accompanying television special was nominated for three Emmy Awards and won two: Outstanding Costume Design for a Variety or Music Program (Ray Aghayan and Ret Turner) and Outstanding Lighting Direction (Electronic) for a Miniseries or a Special (Greg Brunton).[40]

On January 27, 1986, Ross hosted the 13th annual American Music Awards.[41] Ross returned the next year to host the 14th annual telecast.[42]

1988–1999: Return to Motown

In 1988, Ross chose to not renew her RCA contract and had been in talks with her former mentor Berry Gordy to return to Motown. When she learned of Gordy's plans to sell Motown, Ross tried advising him against the decision, though he ended up selling it to MCA Records in June of that year. Following the sale of the company, Ross was asked to return to the Motown label with the condition that she have shares in the company as a part-owner; Ross accepted the offer.

That same year, Ross was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of the Supremes alongside her former singing partners Mary Wilson and Florence Ballard. She also recorded the theme song to animated adventure drama film The Land Before Time (1988). "If We Hold on Together" became an international hit, reaching number one in Japan.

Ross's next album, 1989's Workin' Overtime, was not a commercial success, despite the title track reaching the top three of the Billboard's Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart.[43] The album peaked at No. 34 on the Billboard Hot R&B Albums chart, and achieved top 25 placings in Japan and the UK, attaining a silver certification in the latter country. Subsequent releases, such as The Force Behind the Power (1991), Take Me Higher (1995), and Every Day Is a New Day (1999) produced similar results, achieving more international than domestic success.

In 1991, Ross became one of the few American artists to have headlined the annual Royal Variety Performance, performing a selection of her UK hits before Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh at the Victoria Palace Theatre, London.[44] This marked her second appearance at the Royal Variety Performance, the first being in 1968 with the Supremes.

The Force Behind the Power sparked an international comeback of sorts when the album went double platinum in the UK.[45] led by the near chart-topping No. 2 UK hit single "When You Tell Me That You Love Me". The single's duet version with Irish boy band, Westlife, also hit No. 2 in the UK in 2005. The album performed well across Europe and into Japan as The Force Behind the Power achieved Gold record status in the nation. The album produced an astounding 9 singles across international territories, including another Top 10 hit, "One Shining Moment".

In 1993, Ross returned to acting with a dramatic role in the television film, Out of Darkness. Ross won acclaim for her role in the TV movie and earned her third Golden Globe nomination, although she did not win.

In 1994, One Woman: The Ultimate Collection, a career retrospective compilation, became a number one hit in the UK, selling quadruple platinum, and selling well across Europe and in the English-speaking world. The retrospective was EMI's alternative to Motown's box set Forever Diana: Musical Memoirs.

Ross performed during the opening ceremony of the 1994 FIFA World Cup held in Chicago, where she infamously missed a penalty kick that was part of her act, and during the pre-match entertainment of the 1995 Rugby League World Cup final at Wembley Stadium.[46]

On January 28, 1996, Ross performed at the Super Bowl XXX halftime show, held at the Sun Devil Stadium in Tempe, Arizona.[47] Earlier that month, Ross's Tokyo concert, Diana Ross: Live in Japan, filmed live at the city's Nippon Budokan Stadium, was released.[48]

In May 1996, Ross received the World Music Awards' Lifelong Contribution to the Music Industry Award.[49] On November 29, EMI released the compilation album, Voice of Love, featuring the singles "In the Ones You Love", "You Are Not Alone" and "I Hear (The Voice of Love)".[50]

On February 8, 1997, EMI released the Japanese edition of Ross's album, A Gift of Love, featuring the single, "Promise Me You'll Try".[51] In May, she performed with operatic tenors Plácido Domingo and José Carreras again at the Superconcert of the Century concert, held in Taipei, Taiwan.[52] She later inducted the Jackson 5 into The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame on May 6.[53]

On February 19, 1998, Ross hosted the Motown 40 telecast on ABC.[54] In 1999, Ross was named the most successful female singer in the history of the United Kingdom charts, based upon a tally of her career hits. Madonna would soon succeed Ross as the most successful female artist in the UK. Later that year, Ross presented at the 1999 MTV Video Music Awards in September of the year and shocked the audience by touching rapper Lil' Kim's exposed breast and pasty-covered nipple, amazed at the young rapper's brashness.[55]

In 1999, she and Brandy Norwood co-starred in the television movie, Double Platinum, which was aired prior to the release of Ross's album, Every Day Is a New Day.

2000–2003: Supremes reunion

Main articles: Motown 25: Yesterday, Today, Forever and Return to Love Tour

Ross reunited with Mary Wilson first in 1976 to attend the funeral service of Florence Ballard, who had died in February of that year. In March 1983, Ross agreed to reunite with Wilson and Cindy Birdsong for the television special Motown 25: Yesterday, Today, Forever. The Supremes did not rehearse their performance for that evening, due to time constraints. A scheduled medley of hits was cancelled.

Instead of following producer Suzanne de Passe's instructions to recreate their choreography from their final Ed Sullivan Show appearance, Wilson (according to her autobiography) planned with Birdsong to take a step forward every time Ross did the same, then began to sing lead on the group's final number-one hit song, "Someday We'll Be Together", on which Wilson did not perform.

Later, Wilson introduced Berry Gordy from the stage (unaware that the program's script called for Ross to introduce Gordy), at which point Ross subtly pushed down Wilson's hand-held microphone, stating, "It's been taken care of." Ross then re-introduced Gordy.[56][57] These moments were excised from the final edit of the taped special, but still made their way into the news media; People magazine reported that "Ross [did] some elbowing to get Wilson out of the spotlight."[58]

In 1999, Ross and mega-tour promoter SFX Entertainment (which later became Live Nation) began negotiations regarding a Diana Ross tour which would include a Supremes segment. During negotiations with Ross, the promoters considered the creation of a Supremes tour, instead. Ross agreed. As the tour's co-producer, Ross invited all living former Supremes to participate. Neither Jean Terrell nor late 1970s member Susaye Greene chose to participate. 70s Supremes Lynda Laurence and Scherrie Payne were then touring as Former Ladies of the Supremes.

Ross contacted Mary Wilson and Cindy Birdsong, who then began negotiations with SFX. Negotiations with Wilson and Birdsong (who allowed Wilson to negotiate on her behalf) failed when Wilson refused SFX's and Ross's offer of $4 million for 30 performances. Following the passage of SFX's final deadline for Wilson to accept their offer, Payne and Laurence, already negotiating with SFX, signed on to perform with Ross on the tour.

Laurence and Payne would later say that they got along well with Ross. The newly formed group performed together on Today and The Oprah Winfrey Show, as well as VH1's VH1 Divas 2000: A Tribute to Diana Ross. The Return to Love Tour launched in June 2000, to a capacity audience in Philadelphia. The tour's final performance was at New York City's Madison Square Garden. The tour was cancelled by SFX shortly thereafter, due to mediocre ticket sales, despite glowing reviews from media as varied as Billboard magazine, the Detroit Free Press, the Los Angeles Times and The Village Voice newspapers.

On December 5, 2000, Ross received a Heroes Award from the National Academy of Recording Arts & Sciences (NARAS). The Heroes Award is the highest distinction bestowed by the New York Chapter.[59]

Diana Ross's first public post-RTL appearance was at a fundraiser for former president Bill Clinton. In January 2001, Love & Life: The Very Best of Diana Ross was released in the United Kingdom, becoming Ross's 17th gold album in that country. In June, Ross presented costume designer Bob Mackie with the Lifetime Achievement Award at the American Fashion Awards.

Two days before the September 11 attacks, Ross performed "God Bless America" at the US Open before the tournament's women's final, between Venus and Serena Williams. Immediately following the attacks, Ross performed the song again at Shea Stadium, before the New York Mets first game, after driving cross-country to be with her children (in the wake of the attacks, flying in the U.S. was temporarily restricted.).[60] Ross teamed with legendary singers Patti LaBelle and Eartha Kitt, among others, for a Nile Rodgers-produced recording of Sister Sledge's classic disco hit, "We Are Family", recorded to benefit the families of 9/11 victims.

In May 2002, Ross and all five of her children appeared on Barbara Walters' Mother's Day television special. Shortly thereafter, Ross admitted herself into the 30-day substance abuse program at the Promises Institute in Malibu, California, after friends and family began to notice a burgeoning alcohol problem. Ross left the program three weeks later and began to fulfill previously scheduled concert dates, beginning with a performance before a 60,000-strong crowd at London's Hyde Park, for Prince Charles' Prince's Trust charity.

U.S. ticket sales for the new tour were brisk, from coast to coast. Venues, such as Long Island's Westbury Music Fair, California's Cerritos Center for the Performing Arts and Humphrey's Concerts by the Bay, attempted to add extra shows, due to public demand. Sold-out performances in Boston and Ontario, Canada, followed. In August, shortly after the tour began, however, Ross re-entered the Promises Institute's substance abuse rehabilitation program. That December, during her stay at Arizona's Canyon Ranch Health Resort, Ross was pulled over by Tucson police for driving the wrong way on a one-way street. She failed a breathalizer test and was arrested for a DUI. Ross was later sentenced to 48 hours in jail, which she served near her home in Greenwich, Connecticut.

In January 2003, Ross was honored as Humanitarian of the Year by Nile Rodgers' We Are Family Foundation. Shortly thereafter, Ross was feted as an honored guest at the National Association of Black-Owned Broadcasters Awards. Later that year, Ross was the guest performer at that year's Metropolitan Museum of Art's Costume Institute's annual gala, in an ensemble custom-designed by fashion designer Tom Ford, followed by an appearance as the surprise celebrity model for American couturier Dennis Basso's runway show.

In February 2003, the Supremes were honored by the Rhythm and Blues Foundation with its Pioneer Award.[61]

2004–2019: Later career

 
Ross is applauded by her fellow Kennedy Center honorees as she is recognized for her career achievements by President George W. Bush in the East Room of the White House Sunday, December 2, 2007, during the Kennedy Center Gala Reception. From left to right: singer-songwriter Brian Wilson; filmmaker Martin Scorsese; Ross; comedian, actor and author Steve Martin, and pianist Leon Fleisher.

In May 2004, Ross and daughter Tracee Ellis Ross appeared on the cover of Essence magazine, in celebration of its 50th anniversary.[62] On December 8, 2004, Ross was the featured performer for Stevie Wonder's Billboard Music Awards' Century Award tribute.[63]

On January 14, 2005, Ross performed at the Tsunami Aid: A Concert of Hope TV concert to help raise money for the tsunami victims of the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake.[64] On January 20, 2005, Ross launched her M.A.C. Icon makeup collection, as part of the beauty corporation's Icon Series.[65] In 2005, Ross participated in Rod Stewart's Thanks for the Memory: The Great American Songbook, Volume IV recording a duet version of the Gershwin standard, "I've Got a Crush on You". The song was released as promotion for the album and later reached No. 19 on the Billboard Hot Adult Contemporary chart, marking her first Billboard chart entry since 2000.[66] Ross was featured in another hit duet, this time with Westlife, on a cover of Ross's 1991 hit "When You Tell Me That You Love Me", repeating the original recording's chart success, garnering a No. 2 UK Singles Chart hit (No. 1 in Ireland).

Also in 2005, Ross was featured as an honored guest at Oprah Winfrey's Legends Ball Weekend, a three-day celebration honoring 25 African-American women in art, entertainment and civil rights. On May 22, 2006, a year after the celebration, a one-hour program about the weekend aired on ABC, including celebrity interviews and behind-the-scenes moments.[67] On March 22, 2006, Ross's televised Central Park concerts, entitled "For One & for All", were named TV Land Awards' Viewer's Choice for Television's Greatest Music Moment.[68]

In June 2006, Universal released Ross's shelved 1972 Blue album. It peaked at No. 2 on Billboard's Top Jazz Albums chart.[69] Later in 2006, Ross released her first studio album in seven years with I Love You. It would be released on EMI/Manhattan Records in the United States in January 2007.[70] EMI Inside later reported the album had sold more than 622,000 copies worldwide. "I Love You" peaked at No. 32 on Billboard's Hot 200 albums chart[71] and No. 16 on Billboard's Top R&B Albums chart. Ross later ventured on a world tour to promote I Love You. In 2007, Ross was honored with the BET Awards' Lifetime Achievement Award and, later, as one of the honorees at the Kennedy Center Honors.

 
Ross in concert in Rotterdam, Netherlands, 2007

On August 28, 2008, Ross performed at the opening of the US Open tennis tournament, as part of a tribute to Billie Jean King.[72][73] Ross headlined the 2008 Nobel Peace Prize Concert in Oslo, Norway.[74][75]

In October 2009, Ross was the featured performer at the annual Symphonica in Rosso concert series, held at the GelreDome Stadium in Arnhem, Netherlands.[76]

In 2010, Ross embarked on her first headlining tour in three years titled the More Today Than Yesterday: The Greatest Hits Tour. Dedicated to the memory of her late friend Michael Jackson, the concert tour garnered positive reviews, nationwide.[77]

In 2011, Ross was inducted into the Michigan Rock and Roll Legends Hall of Fame.[78]

In February 2012, Ross received her first Grammy Award, for Lifetime Achievement, and announced the nominees for the Album of the Year.[79] In May, a DVD of her Central Park concert performances, For One & For All, was released and featured commentary from Steve Binder, who directed the special. A month later, on December 9, she performed as the marquee and headlining performer at the White House-hosted Christmas in Washington concert, where she performed before former President Barack Obama. The event was later broadcast as an annual special on TNT.

In 2013, Ross completed a tour in South America and a tour in the United States. On July 3, 2014, Ross was awarded the Ella Fitzgerald Award for "her extraordinary contribution to contemporary jazz vocals", at the Montreal International Jazz Festival. On November 20, 2014, Ross presented the Dick Clark Award for Excellence to Taylor Swift at the American Music Awards.

In 2015, Ross appeared in the video for the song "How to Live Alone" performed by her son Evan Ross. On April 1, 2015, Ross began the first of nine performances as a part of her mini-residency, The Essential Diana Ross: Some Memories Never Fade at The Venetian in Las Vegas, Nevada.[80][81] On November 27, 2015, Motown/Universal released the album Diana Ross Sings Songs from The Wiz, recorded in 1978. The album features Ross's versions of songs from the film version of the musical The Wiz, in which she starred along with Michael Jackson, Nipsey Russell, Ted Ross, Richard Pryor and Lena Horne.

In February 2016, Ross resumed her In the Name of Love Tour, which began in 2013. On November 22, 2016, Ross was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President Obama.[82]

In December 2016, Billboard magazine named her the 50th most successful dance club artist of all time.[83]

On June 30, 2017, Ross headlined the Essence Festival in New Orleans, Louisiana, with her daughter Rhonda Ross-Kendrick performing as the opening act.[84][85] On November 19, 2017, Ross received the American Music Awards Lifetime Achievement Award.[86] Ross performed several of her hits, ending with "Ain't No Mountain High Enough", during which she brought all of her grandchildren onstage. Her eldest grandson, eight-year-old Raif-Henok Emmanuel Kendrick, son of Rhonda Ross-Kendrick and husband, Rodney, performed an impromptu dance behind Ross, which gained attention.[87] Ross was then joined onstage by all of her children, their spouses, first ex-husband Robert Ellis, Smokey Robinson (who brought Ross to Motown) and Motown founder, Berry Gordy.

In December 2017, Ross appeared on the Home Shopping Network to promote her first fragrance, Diamond Diana.[88] The fragrance sold out within hours. Ross made several hour-long appearances on the network, and also released a tie-in CD retrospective collection of her music titled Diamond Diana. Diamond Diana peaked at No. 6 on the Billboard R&B Albums chart[89] and No. 5 on its Top Album Sales chart.[90] The CD's first single release, "Ain't No Mountain High Enough 2017", remixed by Eric Kupper, reached No. 1 on the Billboard Dance Club Songs chart.[91]

On February 8, 2018, Ross began a new mini-residency at Wynn Las Vegas.[92] On August 4, 2018, Ross scored another No. 1 hit on Billboard's Top Dance Chart with "I'm Coming Out/Upside Down 2018".[93] She performed a song from a to-be-released compilation Christmas album at the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade on November 22, 2018.[94]

In December 2018, Ross consolidated her status as a dance diva by ranking No. 3 in the Billboard Dance Club Songs Artists year-end chart.[95]

On February 10, 2019, The Recording Academy honored Ross at the 61st Annual Grammy Awards.[96] Ross performed "The Best Years of My Life" and "Reach Out and Touch (Somebody's Hand)". In 2019, her song "The Boss" was remixed by Eric Kupper as "The Boss 2019", and reached No. 1 on Billboard's Top Dance Chart on April 13.[97]

On October 10, 2019, it was announced that Ross would play the Sunday legends slot on the Pyramid Stage at the Glastonbury Festival for the festival's 50th anniversary; however, the festival was postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Then on November 10, 2021, Ross confirmed that she would play the legends slot at the 2022 festival.

2020–present: Thank You and Glastonbury

In May 2020, Ross released Supertonic: Mixes, a collection of nine of her greatest hits remixed by Eric Kupper and featuring her four back-to-back No.1 hits on Billboard Dance Club Songs chart: "Ain't No Mountain High Enough 2017", "I'm Coming Out/Upside Down 2018", "The Boss 2019", and "Love Hangover 2020". In July 2020, "Supertonic: Mixes" was also released on CD and crystal-clear vinyl LP.

Ross released her twenty-fifth studio album Thank You in November 2021. It was written and recorded during the COVID-19 pandemic lockdown and contains her first original material since 1999's Every Day Is a New Day.[98]

 
Ross performing live at Longleat in Wiltshire, England, 2022

In May 2022, she released the single "Turn Up the Sunshine", a collaboration with psychedelic pop band Tame Impala. The track is the lead single from the Jack Antonoff-produced original soundtrack album of the film Minions: The Rise of Gru. With the exception of this track, the album primarily features new spins on classic 1970s hits by artists such as Brittany Howard, St. Vincent, H.E.R., and many others.

On June 4, 2022, Ross appeared as the finale act at the Platinum Party at the Palace in celebration of the Platinum Jubilee of Elizabeth II.[99][100] On June 10, Ross kicked off the UK leg of her Thank You Tour at Cardiff Castle.[101] On June 26, Ross appeared live on the Pyramid Stage at the Glastonbury Festival.[102][103][104]

On November 15, 2022, Ross received a 2023 Grammy Award nomination in the Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album category for "Thank You".[105]

Personal life

Relationships and family

Ross has been married twice and has five children.

Ross became romantically involved with Motown CEO Berry Gordy in 1965. The relationship lasted several years, resulting in the birth of Ross's eldest child, Rhonda Suzanne Silberstein, in August 1971. Two months into her pregnancy with Rhonda, in January 1971, Ross married music executive Robert Ellis Silberstein,[106] who raised Rhonda as his own daughter, despite knowing her true paternity. Ross told Rhonda that Gordy was her biological father when Rhonda was 13 years old. Beforehand, Rhonda referred to Gordy as "Uncle B.B."

Ross has two daughters with Silberstein, Tracee Joy Silberstein (Tracee Ellis Ross) and Chudney Lane Silberstein, born in 1972 and 1975, respectively.[107] Ross and Silberstein divorced in 1977.[108]

Ross dated Gene Simmons, bassist and co-lead singer for the band Kiss, from 1980 to 1983.[109] They began dating after Cher, who had remained friends with Simmons following their break-up, suggested he ask Ross to help him choose her Christmas present. Simmons, in his autobiography, contends that he was not dating Cher when he met Ross. Ross ended her relationship with Simmons when he gave Ross the erroneous impression that he had resumed his relationship with Cher. Simmons' story differed in 2015 when he revealed that he fell in love with Ross while dating Cher, which ended Ross and Cher's friendship.[110]

Ross met her second husband, Norwegian shipping magnate Arne Næss Jr., in 1985, and married him the following year. She became stepmother to his three elder children; Katinka, Christoffer, and folk singer Leona Naess. They have two sons together: Ross Arne (born in 1987)[citation needed] and Evan Olav (born in 1988). Ross and Næss divorced in 2000, after press reports revealed that Næss had fathered a child with another woman in Norway.[111] Ross considers Næss the love of her life.[112] Næss fell to his death in a South African mountain climbing accident in 2004.[113] Ross remains close with her three ex-stepchildren.

Ross has seven grandchildren: grandson Raif-Henok (born in 2009 to her daughter Rhonda); grandsons Leif (born on June 5, 2016) and Indigo (born 2017), born to her son Ross Næss;[114] granddaughters Callaway Lane (born in 2012) and Everlee (born October 2019) born to Ross's daughter Chudney;[115] granddaughter Jagger Snow (born in 2015), and grandson Ziggy (born in 2020) to her son Evan.[116][117]

Religious views

Diana Ross was raised in the Baptist church. According to her 1993 autobiography, Secrets of a Sparrow,[118] her initial performances were in the Bessemer Baptist Church of Bessemer, Alabama, led by her maternal grandfather, Pastor William Moten, who (with his wife) raised her and her siblings there during their mother's bouts with tuberculosis.

2002 arrest

Diana Ross was arrested for DUI on December 30, 2002, in Tucson, Arizona, while undergoing substance abuse treatment at a local rehabilitation facility.[119] She later served a two-day sentence near her Connecticut estate.[120]

Legacy

 
In 1982, Diana Ross received her first star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Apart from this star, Ross also received a second for her work with the Supremes.

Ross has influenced many artists including Michael Jackson, Beyoncé,[121] Madonna,[122] Jade Thirlwall, Questlove,[123] Ledisi[124] and the Ting Tings.[125]

Several of Ross's songs have been covered and sampled. "Ain't No Mountain High Enough" has been featured in the film Chicken Little. The song has also been covered live and on albums by Jennifer Lopez and Amy Winehouse. Janet Jackson sampled "Love Hangover" on her 1997 song "My Need" (featured on the album The Velvet Rope), having already sampled "Love Child" and "Someday We'll Be Together" by Ross & the Supremes on her 1993 tracks "You Want This" and "If" (both released as singles from the Janet album). "Love Hangover" was also sampled in Monica's 1998 number 1 "The First Night" as well as being sampled by Will Smith, Master P (who also sampled "Missing You"), Heavy D and Bone Thugs-n-Harmony, "It's Your Move" was sampled in 2011 by Vektroid for her song "Lisa Frank 420 / Modern Computing", which appeared in her ninth album Floral Shoppe under her one-time alias Macintosh Plus. "It's My House" was sampled by Lady Gaga for her song "Replay" which appeared on the 2020 album Chromatica.

Various works have been inspired by Ross's career and life. The character of Deena Jones in both the play and film versions of Dreamgirls was inspired by Ross.[126]

Motown: The Musical is a Broadway musical that launched on April 14, 2013. It is the story of Berry Gordy's creation of Motown Records and his romance with Diana Ross. She was portrayed by Valisia LeKae in 2013 and Lucy St. Louis in 2016. Ross was also portrayed by Candice Marie Woods (from 2017 to 2019) and Deri'Andra Tucker (2021) in the stage play Ain't Too Proud. There have been many other petryals of Ross in films, television and other media including Holly Robinson Peete in The Jacksons: An American Dream (1992) and Michelle Williams of Destiny's Child on American Soul (2019).

As a member of the Supremes, her songs "Stop! In the Name of Love" and "You Can't Hurry Love" are among the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's 500 Songs that Shaped Rock and Roll.[127] They were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1988, received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 1994, and entered into the Vocal Group Hall of Fame in 1998. In 2004, Rolling Stone placed the group at number 96 on their list of the "100 Greatest Artists of All Time".[128]

As lead singer of the Supremes and as a solo artist, Ross has earned 18 number-one singles (12 as lead singer of the Supremes and 6 as a solo artist). Ross is the only female artist to have number one singles as a solo artist; as the other half of a duet (Lionel Richie); as a member of a trio (the Supremes); and, as an ensemble member ("We Are the World" by USA for Africa). Ross was featured on the Notorious B.I.G.'s 1997 number-one hit "Mo Money Mo Problems" since her voice from her 1980 hit "I'm Coming Out" was sampled for the song.

Billboard magazine named Ross the "female entertainer of the century" in 1976. Ross is also one of the few recording artists to have two stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame—one as a solo artist and the other as a member of the Supremes. After her 1983 concert in Central Park, Diana Ross Playground was named in her honor with a groundbreaking opening ceremony in 1986.

Berry Gordy asked Ross to introduce The Jackson Five to the public. Eventually, public misunderstandings resulted in Ross erroneously being given credit for the discovery of the Jackson 5. Gordy decided that the misunderstanding was "good for business", so her "discovery" became a part of Motown's marketing and promotions plan for the Jackson 5. Consequently, their debut album was titled Diana Ross Presents The Jackson 5. Motown producer Bobby Taylor claims to have discovered the Jacksons, though, singer Gladys Knight also makes the claim.[129] Even so, Ross embraced the role and became a good friend of Michael Jackson, serving as a mother figure to him.[130]

On January 24, 1985, Kaufman Astoria Studios held a dedication ceremony in Astoria, Queens to honor Ross by naming Studio 4 at the studios after her. The Diana Ross Building served as an acknowledgement of Ross' contribution in bringing the studio back to the forefront after being faced with possible demolition, through her involvement in The Wiz.[131]

In 2006, Ross was one of 25 African-American women saluted at Oprah Winfrey's Legends Ball, a three-day celebration, honoring their contributions to art, entertainment, and civil rights.

Diana Ross was named one of the Five Mighty Pop Divas of the Sixties along with Dusty Springfield, Aretha Franklin, Martha Reeves, and Dionne Warwick.[132]

Awards and nominations

Main article: List of awards and nominations received by Diana Ross

On November 16, 2016, Ross was announced as one of the 21 recipients of the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation's highest civilian honor.[133]

In 2023, Supremes co-founders Ross and the late Mary Wilson and Florence Ballard received the Grammys’ Lifetime Achievement Award, with Ross becoming the first woman to win the award twice (she earned a solo honor in 2012).[134]

Discography

Main articles: Diana Ross discography and The Supremes discography

Studio albums

Filmography

 
Diana Ross at the Academy Awards in 1990

(* = made directly for television)

Television

Stage

Tours

Headlining

Co-headlining tours

Residency shows

Bibliography

  • Ross, Diana (October 1993). Secrets of a Sparrow. Random House. ISBN 0-679-42874-7.
  • Ross, Diana (March 1995). When You Dream.
  • Ross, Diana (December 2002). Shelnutt, Rosanne (ed.). Diana Ross: Going Back. New York: Universe. ISBN 0-7893-0797-9. (A scrapbook-style collection of photographs)

See also

References

  1. ^ Allard, François; Lecocq, Richard (2018). "Diana Ross: Godmother and Muse". Michael Jackson: All the Songs: The Story Behind Every Track. Octopus Books. ISBN 9781788401234. from the original on August 1, 2020. Retrieved November 11, 2019.
  2. ^ "Top 10 Girl Groups of All Time: page 1". Billboard. July 11, 2017. from the original on September 10, 2016. Retrieved April 17, 2020.
  3. ^ Lipshutz, Jason (April 28, 2014). "Top 40 Girl Group Songs Of All Time". Billboard. from the original on February 23, 2015. Retrieved February 28, 2015.
  4. ^ "Diana Ross to play The Joint in April". Tulsaworld.com. from the original on August 10, 2021. Retrieved August 10, 2021.
  5. ^ "Greatest of All Time Hot 100 Artists". Billboard. Retrieved March 26, 2022.
  6. ^ "Diana Ross-Greatest of All Time Hot 100 Artists". Billboard. Retrieved March 26, 2022.
  7. ^ Whitburn, Joel (2019). Joel Whitburn's Top Pop Singles 1955-2018. Record Research. ISBN 978-0-89820-233-5.
  8. ^ "Diana Ross Was Born on March 26, 1944 | Music Trivia". Musicbyday.com. from the original on May 4, 2012. Retrieved April 10, 2012.
  9. ^ Whitburn, Joel, The Billboard Book of Number 1 Hits, p. 207.
  10. ^ Haskins, James (1982). I'm Gonna Make You Love Me: The Story of Diana Ross. Dell. p. 12. ISBN 9780440941729.
  11. ^ "It's Clear That Diana Ross's Family Has "Endless Love" For Each Other". Oklahoman.com. March 27, 2019. from the original on September 9, 2021. Retrieved February 20, 2021.
  12. ^ "1962 Cass Technical Yearbook". classmates.com. from the original on August 10, 2014. Retrieved July 28, 2014.
  13. ^ "Hudson's". Encyclopedia of Detroit. Detroit Historical Society. Retrieved June 5, 2022.
  14. ^ a b Diana Ross interviewed on the Pop Chronicles (1969)
  15. ^ Wilson, Mary (1999). Dreamgirl & Supreme Faith: My Life as a Supreme. Rowman & Littlefield. pp. 169–170. ISBN 9780815410003.
  16. ^ Christgau, Robert (February 25, 1973). "Diana Ross and THE Supreme". Newsday. from the original on March 23, 2019. Retrieved March 23, 2019.
  17. ^ Benjaminson, Peter. The Lost Supreme: The Life of Dreamgirl Florence Ballard. Chicago: Chicago Review Press, November 2007. 75–79. ISBN 1-55652-705-5
  18. ^ George, Nelson (2007). Where Did Our Love Go? The Rise and Fall of the Motown Sound. Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press. pp. 159–60, 183–88. ISBN 978-0-252-07498-1.
  19. ^ "Diana Ross and the Supremes perform their final concert". HISTORY. from the original on February 27, 2021. Retrieved February 20, 2021.
  20. ^ a b Posner, Gerald. Motown: Music, Money, Sex, and Power, p. 286.
  21. ^ Diana Ross Fan Club (July 24, 2016). "An Evening With Diana Ross (1977 - TV Special) [Full Show]". YouTube. from the original on June 13, 2019. Retrieved October 30, 2016.
  22. ^ Nandy Ross (June 20, 2015). "Diana Ross - Receiving Special Tony Award - 31th Annual Tony Awards 1977". YouTube. from the original on December 14, 2019. Retrieved October 30, 2016.
  23. ^ Sharp, Kathleen (2003). Mr. and Mrs. Hollywood: Edie and Lew Wasserman and Their Entertainment Empire. Carroll & Graf Publishers. pp. 357–58. ISBN 0-7867-1220-1.
  24. ^ a b Harpole, Charles (2003). History of the American Cinema. Simon & Schuster. pp. 64, 65, 219, 220, 290. ISBN 0-684-80463-8.
  25. ^ a b Adrahtas, Thomas (2006). A Lifetime to Get Here: Diana Ross: The American Dreamgirl. AuthorHouse. pp. 163–67. ISBN 1-4259-7140-7.
  26. ^ Skow, John (October 30, 1978). . Time. Archived from the original on December 5, 2008. Retrieved November 6, 2007.
  27. ^ Moon, Spencer; Hill, George (1997). Reel Black Talk: A Sourcebook of 50 American Filmmakers. Greenwood Press. xii. ISBN 0-313-29830-0.
  28. ^ Benshoff, Harry M.; Griffin, Sean (2004). America on Film: Representing Race, Class, Gender, and Sexuality at the Movies. Blackwell Publishing. p. 88. ISBN 0-631-22583-8.
  29. ^ George, Nelson (1985). Where Did Our Love Go? The Rise and Fall of the Motown Sound. St. Martin's Press. p. 193.
  30. ^ Diana Ross Fan Club (August 14, 2016). "Diana Ross guest host of the Tonight Show - July 16, 1979 (Full Episode)". YouTube. from the original on September 2, 2019. Retrieved October 30, 2016.
  31. ^ TheReturnOfStephan1 (June 13, 2009). "Diana Ross - "Ain't No Mountain High Enough" - Caesar's Palace, 1979 Opening (Part 1 of 17)". YouTube. from the original on September 4, 2014. Retrieved October 30, 2016.
  32. ^ Scott Pangburn (December 22, 2015). "The Boss (Macy's Parade)". YouTube. from the original on November 22, 2017. Retrieved October 30, 2016.
  33. ^ "TV: AN HOUR OF DIANA ROSS". The New York Times. March 2, 1981. from the original on March 16, 2018. Retrieved March 16, 2018.
  34. ^ Nandy Ross (November 4, 2016). "Diana Ross – Diana TV Special 1981 (Full Show)". YouTube. from the original on September 11, 2019. Retrieved March 4, 2018.
  35. ^ Scott Pangburn (December 23, 2015). "The Star Spangled Banner". YouTube. from the original on September 7, 2016. Retrieved March 4, 2018.
  36. ^ fred fishers (April 23, 2017). "Diana Ross Full Episode Soul Train 1982 Interview with Don Cornelius". from the original on March 17, 2020. Retrieved March 4, 2018 – via YouTube.
  37. ^ "Diana Ross :: The Hollywood Walk of Fame". Hwof.com. from the original on March 3, 2018. Retrieved March 3, 2018.
  38. ^ "Diana Ross Comes Up With $250,000 For NYC Playground". Jet. Johnson Publishing Company. February 6, 1984. from the original on September 9, 2021. Retrieved October 30, 2020 – via Google Books.
  39. ^ Anderson, Susan Heller and Deirdre Carmody (September 12, 1986). "New York Day by Day; Start at Ross Playground" July 21, 2018, at the Wayback Machine. The New York Times.
  40. ^ dianarossbroadcast (September 5, 2009). "Diana Ross "Red Hot Rhythm & Blues" – 1.7". YouTube. from the original on August 20, 2019. Retrieved February 12, 2018.
  41. ^ Nandy Ross (July 11, 2015). "Diana Ross – Eaten Alive (Live) 13th Annual AMA's 1986". YouTube. from the original on September 18, 2017. Retrieved February 16, 2018.
  42. ^ Nandy Ross (May 10, 2017). "Diana Ross Touch By Touch at 14th Annual AMA's 1987". YouTube. from the original on September 2, 2019. Retrieved February 16, 2018.
  43. ^ "Diana Ross Workin' Overtime Chart History". Billboard. from the original on May 12, 2018. Retrieved February 12, 2018.
  44. ^ Diana Ross Fan Club (May 25, 2016). "Diana Ross Live at The Royal Variety Performance [1991] (Full Concert)". YouTube. from the original on November 26, 2019. Retrieved February 12, 2018.
  45. ^ BPI 1991-UK, Music Week.
  46. ^ Bloomfield, Craig (June 2, 2011). "Grace Jones and FIFA, Diana Ross at USA 94 and six of the best unlikely entertainers at sport". talksport.com. talkSPORT. from the original on January 4, 2014. Retrieved January 4, 2014.
  47. ^ Nandy Ross (July 11, 2015). "Diana Ross - Half Time Show at Super Bowl XXX 1996". from the original on February 8, 2018. Retrieved February 12, 2018 – via YouTube.
  48. ^ Nandy Ross (October 4, 2016). "Diana Ross Live in Tokyo, Japan 1996 (Full Concert)". from the original on April 9, 2019. Retrieved February 12, 2018 – via YouTube.
  49. ^ Nandy Ross (June 22, 2015). "Diana Ross – (Live) 1996 World Music Awards". YouTube. from the original on March 10, 2020. Retrieved February 12, 2018.
  50. ^ "YouTube". Youtube.com. from the original on March 10, 2020. Retrieved February 12, 2018.
  51. ^ Junior Lara (November 3, 2012). "Diana Ross – Promise me You'll Try HQ BEST". YouTube. from the original on March 10, 2020. Retrieved February 12, 2018.
  52. ^ Nandy Ross (November 9, 2016). "Diana Ross, Placido Domingo & Jose Carreras Super Concert Taipei, Taiwan 1997". from the original on August 20, 2019. Retrieved February 12, 2018 – via YouTube.
  53. ^ mjsoul1982 (June 5, 2012). "The Jacksons & Diana Ross on Rock & Roll Hall of Fame - Pt 1". YouTube. from the original on May 20, 2020. Retrieved February 12, 2018.
  54. ^ fred fishers (November 7, 2016). "Motown 40: The Music Is Forever 1". YouTube. from the original on March 19, 2019. Retrieved February 12, 2018.
  55. ^ "Diana Ross and Lil' Kim's wild VMA moment" September 24, 2013, at the Wayback Machine, Lisa Costantini, August 21, 2002, Entertainment Weekly. Retrieved March 26, 2007.
  56. ^ Wilson, Mary, Dreamgirl, My Life as a Supreme; Taraborrelli, Randy, Call Her Miss Ross: The Unauthorized Biography of Diana Ross; George, Nelson Where Did Our Love Go?, The Rise & Fall of Motown.
  57. ^ Posner, Gerald. Motown: Music, Money, Sex, and Power, pp. 308–09, and Taraborrelli, Randy, The Unauthorized Biography of Diana Ross.
  58. ^ Wilson, Mary. Dreamgirl: My Life as a Supreme, pp. 1–5. Taken from Wilson, Mary and Romanowski, Patricia (1986, 1990, 2000). Dreamgirl & Supreme Faith: My Life as a Supreme. New York: Cooper Square Publishers. ISBN 0-8154-1000-X.
  59. ^ "DIANA ROSS AND B.B. KING RECEIVE HEROES AWARDS". UPI. from the original on February 10, 2018. Retrieved February 12, 2018.
  60. ^ MLB (September 11, 2017). "Diana Ross performs "God Bless America" at Shea". YouTube. from the original on August 20, 2019. Retrieved February 12, 2018.
  61. ^ . Archived from the original on March 2, 2016. Retrieved June 5, 2022.
  62. ^ "Miss Diana Ross". Pinterest. from the original on August 2, 2020. Retrieved February 10, 2018.
  63. ^ BronzeVenus (July 23, 2007). "Diana Ross - Stevie Wonder Tribute". YouTube. from the original on May 11, 2019. Retrieved February 10, 2018.
  64. ^ Ilona D (August 2, 2011). "Diana Ross - Tsunami Aid Concert of Hope [2005]". YouTube. from the original on August 20, 2019. Retrieved February 10, 2018.
  65. ^ dianarossitalianfan (September 2, 2011). "Diana Ross Mac's 2005 Beauty Icon [ Paris 2005 ]". YouTube. from the original on November 30, 2017. Retrieved February 10, 2018.
  66. ^ "Diana Ross I've Got A Crush on You Chart History". Billboard. from the original on May 12, 2018. Retrieved February 10, 2018.
  67. ^ "The Legends Ball". from the original on February 10, 2018. Retrieved February 10, 2018.
  68. ^ Bennediict (January 6, 2010). "Diana Ross - Medley". YouTube. from the original on August 25, 2019. Retrieved February 10, 2018.
  69. ^ "Diana Ross Blue Chart History". Billboard. from the original on May 18, 2018. Retrieved February 10, 2018.
  70. ^ Cohen, Jonathan (December 13, 2006). "New Diana Ross Album To Get U.S. Release". Billboard. from the original on August 19, 2020. Retrieved April 17, 2020.
  71. ^ "Diana Ross I Love You Chart History". Billboard. from the original on May 18, 2018. Retrieved February 10, 2018.
  72. ^ "Diana Ross sings at US Open Tennis tribute to Billie Jean Ki". from the original on February 10, 2018. Retrieved February 10, 2018.
  73. ^ Bennediict (February 8, 2009). "Diana Ross - US Open 2006 - Part 1". YouTube. from the original on March 8, 2020. Retrieved February 10, 2018.
  74. ^ "Diana Ross To Headline Nobel Peace Prize Concert". Billboard. October 16, 2008. from the original on May 12, 2018. Retrieved February 10, 2018.
  75. ^ Dellerss (December 12, 2008). "Diana Ross - Instrumental Intro & I'm Coming Out (live at the Nobel peace prize concert)". YouTube. from the original on October 17, 2020. Retrieved February 10, 2018.
  76. ^ greattime007 (October 17, 2009). . YouTube. Archived from the original on March 10, 2020.
  77. ^ Pareles, Jon (May 20, 2010). "Diana Ross at Radio City, From Motown to Disco and Beyond". The New York Times. from the original on February 10, 2018. Retrieved February 12, 2018.
  78. ^ Johnson, Gary. "Michigan Rock and Roll Legends - DIANA ROSS". Michiganrockandrolllegends.com. from the original on October 5, 2017. Retrieved September 15, 2018.
  79. ^ "Diana Ross". GRAMMY.com. March 17, 2014. from the original on February 7, 2019. Retrieved January 31, 2019.
  80. ^ "Confirmed! Diana Ross returns to Las Vegas with start of mini-residency". Las Vegas Sun News. from the original on July 16, 2015. Retrieved July 15, 2015.
  81. ^ Weatherfordlas, Mike (January 26, 2015). "Diana Ross doing nine-show stretch at Venetian". Las Vegas Review-Journal. from the original on July 16, 2015. Retrieved July 15, 2015.
  82. ^ Rhodan, Maya (November 22, 2016). "President Obama Awards 21 Presidential Medals of Freedom". Time. from the original on April 20, 2017. Retrieved April 19, 2017.
  83. ^ "Greatest of All Time Top Dance Club Artists : Page 1". Billboard. from the original on July 7, 2017. Retrieved April 17, 2020.
  84. ^ "ESSENCE Fest Exclusive: Diana Ross Talks Legacy, Proudest Moments & What She's Looking Forward To About Performing In NOLA". from the original on February 10, 2018. Retrieved February 10, 2018.
  85. ^ freshfittedz (June 30, 2017). "Diana Ross Essence Festival 2017". YouTube. from the original on September 2, 2019. Retrieved February 10, 2018.
  86. ^ "Diana Ross Reminded Us All Why She's a Legend at the AMAs". theamas.com. November 19, 2017. from the original on February 10, 2018. Retrieved February 10, 2018.
  87. ^ Shapiro, Rebecca (November 20, 2017). "Diana Ross' Grandson Stole The Show During Her AMA Performance". HuffPost. from the original on February 10, 2018. Retrieved February 10, 2018.
  88. ^ . HSN. Archived from the original on February 10, 2018. Retrieved February 9, 2018.
  89. ^ "R&B Albums". Billboard. from the original on March 31, 2018. Retrieved February 9, 2018.
  90. ^ "Top Album Sales : Page 1". Billboard. from the original on March 10, 2018. Retrieved February 9, 2018.
  91. ^ "Dance Songs: Top Dance Music Chart". Billboard. from the original on March 28, 2018. Retrieved February 9, 2018.
  92. ^ "Las Vegas Shows - Wynn Las Vegas & Encore Resort". Wynnlasvegas.com. from the original on February 9, 2018. Retrieved February 9, 2018.
  93. ^ "Dance Songs: Top Dance Music Chart". Billboard.com. from the original on July 31, 2018. Retrieved September 15, 2018.
  94. ^ "Diana Ross, John Legend, Bad Bunny, Kane Brown & Ella Mai Set For Macy's Thanksgiving Parade". Billboard. from the original on November 1, 2018. Retrieved November 1, 2018.
  95. ^ "2018 Billboard Year-End Charts: Dance Club Songs Artists". Billboard. from the original on December 18, 2018. Retrieved September 9, 2021.
  96. ^ "Diana Ross Is Set To Perform At The 2019 GRAMMYs". GRAMMY.com. January 30, 2019. from the original on January 11, 2020. Retrieved January 31, 2019.
  97. ^ "DANCE CLUB SONGS". Billboard. from the original on April 17, 2019. Retrieved May 24, 2019.
  98. ^ Snapes, Laura (June 17, 2021). "Diana Ross announces first new album in 15 years". The Guardian. from the original on June 17, 2021. Retrieved June 17, 2021.
  99. ^ "Platinum Jubilee concert: Diana Ross and Queen to perform for the Queen". BBC News. May 18, 2022. Retrieved May 19, 2022.
  100. ^ Kreps, Daniel (June 5, 2022). "See Queen + Adam Lambert, Duran Duran, Diana Ross Perform at Platinum Jubilee Concert". Rolling Stone. Retrieved June 27, 2022.
  101. ^ Colderick, Stephanie (June 9, 2022). "Diana Ross in Cardiff 2022: List of banned items from the Cardiff Castle gig". walesonline.co.uk. Retrieved July 15, 2022.
  102. ^ Savage, Mark (June 26, 2022). "Diana Ross brings Motown glamour to Glastonbury". BBC News. Retrieved June 27, 2022.
  103. ^ Beaumont, Mark (June 27, 2022). "Diana Ross review, Glastonbury 2022: Seventies throwbacks from a beloved pop icon". The Independent. Retrieved June 27, 2022.
  104. ^ Petridis, Alexis (June 26, 2022). "Diana Ross at Glastonbury review – disco diva detonates explosion of joy". The Guardian. Retrieved June 27, 2022.
  105. ^ "2023 GRAMMY Nominations: See The Complete Nominees List". Grammy.com. Retrieved February 2, 2023.
  106. ^ "LISTEN: 15 songs showcasing Diana Ross as she celebrates her 70th". Globalnews.ca. March 26, 2014. from the original on July 15, 2015. Retrieved July 15, 2015.
  107. ^ Windeler, Robert (January 26, 1976). "Mr. & Mrs. Diana Ross?". People. from the original on September 3, 2014. Retrieved September 1, 2014.
  108. ^ McMurran, Kristin (January 15, 1979). "Showbiz Wiz". People. from the original on September 3, 2014. Retrieved September 1, 2014.
  109. ^ Jones, Emma (June 1, 2015). "Gene Simmons: 'I was a horny 14-year-old boy in the body of a man'". Irish Mirror. from the original on April 20, 2017. Retrieved April 19, 2017.
  110. ^ "Gene Simmons fell for Diana Ross while dating Cher". The Washington Post. June 1, 2015. from the original on June 21, 2018. Retrieved April 23, 2018.
  111. ^ Stewart, Allison (November 16, 2004). "A 'suburban mom': Diana Ross at 60". Chicago Tribune. from the original on September 3, 2014. Retrieved September 1, 2014.
  112. ^ "Supreme Icon Diana Ross, Her 5 Children and Show-Stopping Performance". The Oprah Winfrey Show. Season 25. Episode 93. February 25, 2011.
  113. ^ "Ross' ex-husband fell to his death". BBC. January 14, 2004. from the original on November 29, 2014. Retrieved September 1, 2014.
  114. ^ Non-loginwalled link at bibliogram.pussthecat.org December 22, 2021, at the Wayback Machine: "Instagram post by @kimberly_ryan • Jun 8, 2016 at 12:45 am UTC". Instagram. from the original on September 9, 2021. Retrieved July 18, 2016.
  115. ^ "Diana Ross has Five Children and Says She "Has So Much to Be Proud of"". Oprah Magazine. October 16, 2019. from the original on December 8, 2019. Retrieved December 7, 2019.
  116. ^ "Meet Diana Ross' Just-Born Granddaughter Callaway Lane!". Us Weekly. September 22, 2012. Archived from the original on September 1, 2014. Retrieved September 1, 2014.
  117. ^ "Evan Ross and Ashlee Simpson Welcome Daughter Jagger Snow". People. July 31, 2015. from the original on March 3, 2016. Retrieved August 1, 2015.
  118. ^ Secrets of a Sparrow. ISBN 0679428569.
  119. ^ Peterson, Todd. "Diana Ross Gets Jail Time for DUI – Diana Ross". People. from the original on October 29, 2013. Retrieved December 27, 2013.
  120. ^ Haberman, Lia (February 13, 2004). "Diana Ross Does Time". Eonline.com. from the original on April 20, 2017. Retrieved April 19, 2017.
  121. ^ "Beyoncé Influences". Shmoop.com. from the original on July 16, 2015. Retrieved July 15, 2015.
  122. ^ Madonna - Diana Ross as her inspiration growing up., from the original on April 20, 2020, retrieved September 25, 2019
  123. ^ . Los Angeles Times. Archived from the original on September 28, 2016. Retrieved June 5, 2022.
  124. ^ "Commentary: Where's the love for the supreme Diana Ross?". Los Angeles Times. February 8, 2012. from the original on June 8, 2016. Retrieved April 17, 2020.
  125. ^ Walden, Eric (March 26, 2015). "Concert preview: Ting Tings feeling a bit less 'Super Critical' now". The Salt Lake Tribune. from the original on March 14, 2016. Retrieved February 23, 2016.
  126. ^ Fontenot, Robert (September 10, 2007). . Oldies.about.com. Archived from the original on December 27, 2013. Retrieved December 27, 2013.
  127. ^ "The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's 500 Songs That Shaped Rock and Roll (by artist)". Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, 2007. Retrieved on April 27, 2007. May 14, 2007, at the Wayback Machine
  128. ^ "". Rolling Stone, Issue 946, March 24, 2004. Retrieved on July 4, 2004.
  129. ^ Taraborrelli, J. Randy (May 1, 2007). Diana Ross: A Biography. Citadel. p. 209. ISBN 978-0-8065-2849-6.
  130. ^ Ebert, John David (2010). Dead Celebrities, Living Icons: Tragedy and Fame in the Age of the Multimedia Superstar. Praeger – ABC-CLIO. p. 191. ISBN 9780313377648. from the original on August 1, 2020. Retrieved February 1, 2018.
  131. ^ "Diana Ross jokes with Cheri (l.) and George Kaufman after ce". gettyimages.com.
  132. ^ "Dusty Springfield on The Ed Sullivan Show". EdSullivan.com. Retrieved April 20, 2022.
  133. ^ "These Are The 21 People Receiving The Nation's Highest Civilian Honor". Npr.org. November 16, 2016. from the original on November 16, 2016. Retrieved November 16, 2016.
  134. ^ "The Supremes Get Grammy Lifetime Achievement Honor as the Late Mary Wilson's Friends and Family Celebrate". variety.com. February 3, 2023. Retrieved February 18, 2023.
  135. ^ Adrahtas, Tom (November 20, 2006). "Good Morning Heartache". A Lifetime to Get Here: Diana Ross: The American Dreamgirl. Bloomington, Indiana: AuthorHouse. p. 268. ISBN 9781425971403. from the original on September 9, 2021. Retrieved October 30, 2020.
  136. ^ Davis, Sharon (1998). "September 1971 - Diana Ross - I'm Still Waiting". Every Chart Topper Tells a Story: The Seventies. Edinburgh, Scotland: Mainstream Publishing Company. ISBN 9781780574103. from the original on September 9, 2021. Retrieved October 30, 2020.
  137. ^ "Diana Ross announces two Irish dates". Hot Press. December 5, 2003. Archived from the original on February 9, 2020. Retrieved February 8, 2020.
  138. ^ "Diana Ross, This Is It, Sheffield Hallam FM Arena". The Press. March 17, 2004. Archived from the original on February 9, 2020. Retrieved February 8, 2020.
  139. ^ . BBC News Online. British Broadcasting Corporation. February 14, 2007. Archived from the original on January 4, 2009. Retrieved February 8, 2020.
  140. ^ Castillo, Arielle (February 23, 2012). "Diana Ross at Hard Rock Live February 23". Miami New Times. Archived from the original on February 9, 2020. Retrieved February 8, 2020.
  141. ^ (Press release). Las Vegas, Nevada: ARG Presents. June 9, 2014. Archived from the original on February 9, 2020. Retrieved February 8, 2020.
  142. ^ "Motown legend Diana Ross to perform at Red Rocks in July". KDVR. Nexstar Media Group. February 12, 2019. Archived from the original on February 9, 2020. Retrieved February 8, 2020.
  143. ^ Johnson, Kevin C. "Still Supreme: Diana Ross offers the hits and shows who's the Boss at Fox Theatre show". St. Louis Post-Dispatch. Lee Enterprises. Archived from the original on February 9, 2020. Retrieved February 8, 2020.
  144. ^ Stickler, Jon (May 20, 2021). "Diana Ross Announces Thank You UK Tour For Summer 2022". NME. Stereoboard. from the original on June 24, 2021. Retrieved June 17, 2021.
  145. ^ Segal, David (July 8, 2000). "'Love' Is Gone: Diana Ross's Troubled Tour". The Washington Post. Archived from the original on February 9, 2020. Retrieved February 8, 2020.
  146. ^ Dalton, Deron (February 2, 2015). "DIANA ROSS SET TO DO A MINI-RESIDENCY IN LAS VEGAS". Electronic Urban Report. Archived from the original on February 9, 2020. Retrieved February 8, 2020.
  147. ^ Fonseca, Julio (December 5, 2016). . Metro Weekly. Archived from the original on December 6, 2016. Retrieved April 20, 2017.
  148. ^ Sources for the 2017-18 New York City/Las Vegas residency show:
    • Noh, David (April 20, 2017). "Empress of Pop Sings City Center". Manhattan Express. from the original on November 22, 2018. Retrieved April 20, 2017.
    • Radke, Brock (February 15, 2018). "Diana Ross gets comfortable but stays glamorous at Encore Theater". Las Vegas Sun. Greenspun Media Group. from the original on August 12, 2018. Retrieved August 11, 2018.
    • "Diana Ross performing limited engagement at Wynn Las Vegas". KTNV-TV. E. W. Scripps Company. June 5, 2017. from the original on August 12, 2018. Retrieved August 11, 2018.
  149. ^ Dawson, Lamar (September 21, 2018). "Fall Preview 2018: 5 Upcoming Concerts We Bloom For". NewNowNext. Viacom Media Networks. Archived from the original on February 9, 2020. Retrieved February 8, 2020.
  150. ^ Papadatos, Markos (February 5, 2019). . Digital Journal. Archived from the original on February 9, 2020. Retrieved February 8, 2020.
  151. ^ "Diana Ross: An Extraordinary Evening". The Official Website of Las Vegas. Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority. February 2020. Archived from the original on February 9, 2020. Retrieved February 8, 2020.

External links

 
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Diana Ross.
 
Wikiquote has quotations related to Diana Ross.

March 20, 2023
diana, ross, this, article, about, american, singer, english, children, author, author, born, march, 1944, american, singer, actress, rose, fame, lead, singer, vocal, group, supremes, became, motown, most, successful, during, 1960s, world, best, selling, girl,. This article is about the American singer For the English children s author see Diana Ross author Diana Ross born March 26 1944 is an American singer and actress She rose to fame as the lead singer of the vocal group The Supremes who became Motown s most successful act during the 1960s and one of the world s best selling girl groups of all time They remain the best charting female group in history 2 with a total of twelve number one hit singles on the US Billboard Hot 100 including Where Did Our Love Go Baby Love Come See About Me and Love Child 3 Diana RossRoss performing in 2022Born 1944 03 26 March 26 1944 age 78 Detroit Michigan U S OccupationsSingeractressYears active1956 present 1 Spouse s Robert Ellis Silberstein m 1971 div 1977 wbr Arne Naess Jr m 1986 div 2000 wbr Children5 including Rhonda Tracee and EvanRelativesBarbara Ross Lee sister AwardsFull listMusical careerGenresR amp BpopsouldiscodanceInstrument s VocalsLabelsLu PineMotownRCAEMIParlophoneFormerly ofThe SupremesWebsitedianaross wbr comFollowing departure from the Supremes in 1970 Ross embarked on a successful solo career in music film television and on stage Her eponymous debut solo album featured the U S number one hit Ain t No Mountain High Enough and music anthem Reach Out and Touch Somebody s Hand It was followed with her second solo album Everything Is Everything 1970 which spawned her first UK number one single I m Still Waiting She continued her successful solo career by mounting elaborate record setting world wide concert tours starring in a number of highly watched prime time television specials and releasing hit albums like Touch Me in the Morning 1973 Mahogany 1975 and Diana Ross 1976 as well as their number one hit singles Touch Me in the Morning Theme from Mahogany Do You Know Where You re Going To and Love Hangover respectively Ross further released numerous top ten hits on various Billboard charts throughout the 1970s 80s and 90s She achieved several more global number one singles Upside Down 1980 Endless Love 1981 Why Do Fools Fall in Love 1982 Chain Reaction 1986 If We Hold on Together 1988 and When You Tell Me That You Love Me 1991 Ross has also achieved mainstream success and recognition as an actor Her first role was her Golden Globe Award winning and Academy Award nominated portrayal of Billie Holiday in the film Lady Sings the Blues 1972 she also recorded its soundtrack which became a number one hit on the U S album chart She also starred in two other feature films Mahogany 1975 and The Wiz 1978 and later appeared in the television films Out of Darkness 1994 for which she was nominated for a Golden Globe Award and Double Platinum 1999 Ross was named the Female Entertainer of the Century by Billboard in 1976 Since her solo career began in 1970 Ross has released 25 studio albums numerous singles and compilations that have sold more than 100 million records worldwide 4 She is the only female artist to have had number one singles on the Billboard Hot 100 as a solo artist as the other half of a duet as a member of a trio and as an ensemble member In 2021 Billboard ranked her the 30th greatest Hot 100 artist of all time 5 6 Her hits as a Supreme and a solo artist combined put Ross among the Top 5 artists on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart from 1955 to 2018 7 She had a top 10 UK hit in every one of the last five decades and sang lead on a top 75 hit single at least once every year from 1964 to 1996 in the UK a period of 33 consecutive years and a record for any performer In 1988 Ross was inducted to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of the Supremes and is one of the rare performers to have two stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame She was the recipient of a Special Tony Award in 1976 the Kennedy Center Honors in 2007 the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award in 2012 and 2023 the latter as a member of The Supremes and the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2016 Contents 1 Early life 2 Career 2 1 1959 1970 The Supremes 2 2 1970 1980 Solo career and films 2 3 1981 1987 Leaving Motown and RCA years 2 4 1988 1999 Return to Motown 2 5 2000 2003 Supremes reunion 2 6 2004 2019 Later career 2 7 2020 present Thank You and Glastonbury 3 Personal life 3 1 Relationships and family 3 2 Religious views 3 3 2002 arrest 4 Legacy 5 Awards and nominations 6 Discography 7 Filmography 8 Television 9 Stage 10 Tours 11 Bibliography 12 See also 13 References 14 External linksEarly life Edit The building that was part of the Brewster Douglass Housing Projects in Detroit where Ross spent her teenage years Diana Ross was born in Detroit Michigan on March 26 1944 8 9 She was the second of six children born to Ernestine nee Moten January 27 1916 October 9 1984 and Fred Ross Sr July 4 1920 November 21 2007 Her mother named her Diane but the birth certificate was mistakenly filled out with the name Diana Her family and Detroit friends called her Diane all her life 10 Ross grew up with two sisters Barbara 11 and Rita and three brothers Arthur Fred Jr and Wilbert also known as Chico Ross and her family originally resided at 635 Belmont St in the North End section of Detroit near Highland Park Michigan where her neighbor was Smokey Robinson When Ross was seven her mother contracted tuberculosis causing her to become seriously ill Ross parents sent their children to live with Ernestine s parents the Reverend pastor of Bessemer Baptist Church and Mrs William Moton in Bessemer Alabama After her mother recovered she and her siblings returned to Detroit On her 14th birthday in 1958 her family relocated to the working class Brewster Douglass Housing Projects settling at St Antoine Street Ross attended Cass Technical High School 12 a four year college and preparatory magnet school in downtown Detroit and aspiring to become a fashion designer she took classes in clothing design millinery pattern making and tailoring In the evenings and on weekends she also took modeling and cosmetology classes Ross has written that Robinson loaned her the funds required to attend these and participated in several of the school s extracurricular activities including its swim team In 1960 Hudson s downtown Detroit store hired Ross as its first African American bus girl 13 For extra income she also provided hairdressing services to her neighbors Ross graduated from Cass Tech in January 1962 Career Edit1959 1970 The Supremes Edit Main article The Supremes Ross far right performing with the Supremes as lead singer in 1966 When she was fifteen Ross joined the Primettes the sister group to a male vocal group called the Primes after she had been brought to the attention of music manager Milton Jenkins by Primes member Paul Williams Among the other members of the Primettes were Florence Ballard the first group member hired by Jenkins Mary Wilson and Betty McGlown Williams then girlfriend After the Primettes won a talent competition in 1960 in Windsor Ontario A amp R executive and songwriter Robert Bateman invited them to audition for Motown Records Later following the success of her live performances at sock hops and similar events Ross approached William Smokey Robinson her former neighbor rumored to also have been her childhood boyfriend about auditioning for Motown he insisted that the group audition for him first Robinson then agreed to bring the Primettes to Motown on condition that they allow him and his group the Miracles to hire the Primettes guitarist Marv Tarplin who had been discovered by Ross for an upcoming tour Tarplin ended up playing in Robinson s band s for the next 30 plus years In her autobiography Secrets of a Sparrow Ross wrote that she felt that this had been was a fair trade The Primettes later auditioned for Motown before various Motown executives In Berry Gordy s autobiography To Be Loved Gordy recalled that he had been heading to a business meeting when he happened to hear Ross singing There Goes My Baby and that Ross s voice stopped me in my tracks He approached the group and asked them to perform it again but after learning how young they were Gordy advised them to finish high school before trying to get signed by Motown 14 Undeterred the group began coming to Motown s Hitsville U S A headquarters every day offering to provide extra help for Motown s recordings often including hand claps and background vocals That year the group recorded two tracks for Lu Pine Records with Ross singing lead on one of them During the group s early years Ross served as its hairstylist make up artist seamstress and costume designer In late 1960 having replaced McGlown with Barbara Martin the Primettes were allowed to record their own songs at Hitsville s studio many written by Smokey Robinson who by then was vice president of Motown Your Heart Belongs to Me and A Breathtaking Guy Gordy too composed songs for the trio including Buttered Popcorn featuring Ballard on lead and Let Me Go the Right Way While these songs were regional hits they were not nationwide successes In January 1961 Gordy agreed to sign the group on the condition they change their name Songwriter and Motown secretary Janie Bradford approached Florence Ballard the only group member at the studio at the time to pick out a new name for the group Ballard chose Supremes reportedly because it was the only name on the list that did not end with ette Upon hearing the new name the other members weren t impressed with Ross telling Ballard she feared the group would be mistaken for a male vocal group a male vocal group was indeed named the Supremes Gordy signed the group under their new name on January 15 1961 A year later Barbara Martin left the group reducing the quartet to a trio In late 1963 the group had their first hit with When the Lovelight Starts Shining Through His Eyes peaking at No 23 on the Billboard Hot 100 pop chart At the end of the year Gordy assigned Ross the role of the group s lead singer Ross with the Supremes in 1967 In June 1964 while on tour with Dick Clark s Cavalcade of Stars the group scored their first number one hit with Where Did Our Love Go paving the way for unprecedented success between August 1964 and May 1967 Ross Wilson and Ballard sang on ten number one hit singles all of which also made the UK Top 40 14 The group had also become a hit with audiences both domestically and abroad going on to become Motown s most successful vocal act throughout the sixties Ross began to dominate interviews with the media answering questions aimed at Ballard or Wilson She pushed for more pay than her colleagues In 1965 she began using the name Diana from the mistake on her birth certificate surprising Ballard and Wilson who had only known her as Diane 15 Following significant issues with comportment weight and alcoholism Florence Ballard was fired from the Supremes by Gordy in July 1967 hiring Cindy Birdsong from Patti LaBelle and the Bluebelles as Ballard s replacement Gordy renamed the group Diana Ross amp the Supremes making it easier to charge a larger performance fee for a solo star and a backing group as it did for other renamed Motown groups Gordy initially considered having Ross leave the Supremes for a solo career in 1966 eventually changing his mind because he felt the group s success was still too significant for Ross to pursue solo obligations Ross remained with the Supremes until early 1970 As the lead voice of the Supremes she was really only the soul or perhaps elan vital of a machine ready to plug into whatever arrangement lyric or show dress Berry Gordy and the Motown organization provided She sang of the pain of love without appearing to suffer but that doesn t mean that the catch phrases You keep me hanging on Where did our love go Love is like an itching in my heart and I can t scratch it were softened or somehow corrupted Instead they were transcended with the vivacity that is Diana Ross great gift No matter how she is stylized no matter what phony truism she mouths this woman always lets you know she is alive Robert Christgau 1973 16 The group appeared as a trio of singing nuns in a 1968 episode of the popular NBC TV series Tarzan Between their early 1968 single Forever Came Today and their final single with Ross Someday We ll Be Together Ross would be the only Supremes member to be featured on many of their recordings often accompanied by session singers the Andantes or as in the case of Someday We ll Be Together Julia and Maxine Waters and Johnny Bristol 17 Still Wilson and Birdsong continued to sing on recordings Gordy drove Ross relentlessly throughout this period and Ross due to anxiety arising from Gordy s demands of her began suffering from anorexia nervosa according to her autobiography Secrets of a Sparrow During a 1967 performance in Boston Massachusetts Ross collapsed onstage and had to be hospitalized for exhaustion In 1968 Ross began to perform as a solo artist on television specials including the Supremes own specials such as TCB and G I T on Broadway The Dinah Shore Show and a Bob Hope special among others In mid 1969 Gordy decided that Ross would depart the group by the end of that year and Ross began recording her initial solo work that July One of the first plans for Ross to establish her own solo career was to publicly introduce a new Motown recording act Though she herself did not claim their discovery Motown s publicity department credited Ross with having discovered the Jackson 5 Ross would introduce the group during several public events including The Hollywood Palace 18 In November Ross confirmed a split from the Supremes in Billboard Ross s presumed first solo recording Someday We ll Be Together was eventually released as a Supremes recording and became the group s final number one hit on the Hot 100 It was also the final number one Billboard Hot 100 single of the 1960s Ross made her final appearance with the Supremes at the Frontier Hotel in Las Vegas Nevada on January 14 1970 19 1970 1980 Solo career and films Edit Ross as a guest star with football player and actor Rosey Grier on the Danny Thomas television program Make Room for Granddaddy in 1971 In May 1970 Ross released her eponymous debut solo album which included her signature songs Reach Out and Touch Somebody s Hand and Ain t No Mountain High Enough the latter becoming Ross s first number one solo single Follow up albums Everything Is Everything 1970 and Surrender 1971 came out shortly afterwards In 1971 the ballad I m Still Waiting became her first number one single in the UK Later in 1971 Ross starred in her first solo television special Diana which included the Jackson 5 In 1971 Diana Ross began working on her first film Lady Sings the Blues 1972 which was a loosely based biography on singer Billie Holiday Despite some criticism of her for taking the role once the film opened in October 1972 Ross won critical acclaim for her performance in the film Jazz critic Leonard Feather a friend of Holiday s praised Ross for expertly capturing the essence of Lady Day Ross s role in the film won her Golden Globe Award and Academy Award nominations for Best Actress The soundtrack to Lady Sings the Blues became just as successful reaching No 1 on the Billboard 200 staying there for two weeks and selling two million units In November 1972 Ross sung the song When We Grow Up for the children s album Free to Be You and Me In 1973 Ross had her second number one hit in the U S with the ballad Touch Me in the Morning Later in the year Motown issued Diana amp Marvin a duet album with fellow Motown artist Marvin Gaye The album became an international hit Touring throughout 1973 Ross became the first entertainer in Japan s history to receive an invitation to the Imperial Palace for a private audience with the Empress Nagako wife of Emperor Hirohito In April 1974 Ross became the first African American woman to co host the Academy Awards with John Huston Burt Reynolds and David Niven Actor Anthony Perkins photographing Ross in the film trailer for Mahogany 1975 After the release of a modestly successful album Last Time I Saw Him 1973 Ross s second film Mahogany was released in 1975 The film reunited her with Billy Dee Williams her co star in Lady Sings the Blues and featured costumes designed by Ross herself The story of an aspiring fashion designer who becomes a runway model and the toast of the industry Mahogany was a troubled production from its inception The film s original director Tony Richardson was fired during production and Berry Gordy assumed the director s chair himself 20 Gordy and Ross clashed during filming with Ross leaving the production before shooting was completed forcing Gordy to use secretary Edna Anderson as a body double for Ross While a box office success the film was not well received by the critics Time magazine s review of the film chastised Gordy for squandering one of America s most natural resources Diana Ross 20 Nonetheless Ross had her third number one hit in the U S with Theme from Mahogany Do You Know Where You re Going To A year later in 1976 Ross released her fourth solo number one hit Love Hangover a sensual dramatic mid tempo song that bursts into an uptempo disco tune Later that year Ross launched her An Evening with Diana Ross tour The tour s success led to a two week stint at Broadway s Palace Theatre and a 90 minute Emmy nominated television special of the same name featuring special make up effects by Stan Winston for a scene in which Ross portrayed legendary cabaret artist Josephine Baker and blues singers Bessie Smith and Ethel Waters 21 and a Special Tony Award 22 The albums Baby It s Me 1977 and Ross 1978 sold modestly In 1977 Motown had acquired the film rights to the Broadway play The Wiz an African American reinterpretation of L Frank Baum s The Wonderful Wizard of Oz The film initially was to include the stage actors who had performed on the play but producer Rob Cohen could not garner the interest of any major Hollywood film studios It was not until Ross convinced Cohen to cast her instead of Stephanie Mills who portrayed Dorothy on Broadway as Dorothy that Universal Pictures agreed to finance the production This casting decision led to a change in the film s script in which Dorothy went from a schoolgirl to a schoolteacher The role of the Scarecrow also performed by someone else onstage was eventually given to Ross s former Motown labelmate Michael Jackson Ross and Jackson had a modest dance hit with their recording for the film of Ease on Down the Road Their second duet actually as part of the ensemble of The Wiz Brand New Day found some success overseas The film adaptation of The Wiz had been a 24 million production but upon its October 1978 release it earned only 21 049 053 at the box office 23 24 25 Though pre release television broadcast rights had been sold to CBS for over 10 million the film produced a net loss of 10 4 million for Motown and Universal 24 25 At the time it was the most expensive film musical ever made 26 The film s failure ended Ross s short career on the big screen and contributed to the Hollywood studios reluctance to produce the all black film projects which had become popular during the blaxploitation era of the early to mid 1970s for several years 27 28 29 In 1979 Ross released The Boss continuing her popularity with dance audiences as the title song became a number one dance single On July 16 1979 Ross guest hosted an episode of Johnny Carson s The Tonight Show featuring Lynda Carter George Carlin and Muhammad Ali as guests 30 Later that year Ross hosted the HBO special Standing Room Only filmed at Caesars Palace s Circus Maximus Theater in Las Vegas Nevada during her Tour 79 concert tour 31 This concert special is noted for its opening during which Ross literally makes her entrance through a movie screen In November of that year Ross performed The Boss album s title track as a featured artist during the Macy s Thanksgiving Day Parade in New York City 32 In 1980 Ross released her most successful album to date Diana Composed by Chic s guitarist Nile Rodgers and bassist Bernard Edwards the album included the hits I m Coming Out and Upside Down the latter becoming her fifth chart topping single in the U S Ross scored a Top 10 hit in late 1980 with the theme song to the film It s My Turn Continuing her connections with Hollywood Ross recorded the duet ballad Endless Love with Lionel Richie The song would become her sixth and final single to reach number one on the Billboard Hot 100 1981 1987 Leaving Motown and RCA years Edit Ross in 1981 Ross began negotiations to leave Motown at the end of 1980 After over 20 years with the label Ross received US 250 000 as severance RCA Records offered Ross a 20 million seven year recording contract which gave her complete production control of her albums Before signing onto the label Ross allegedly asked Berry Gordy if he could match RCA s offer Gordy stated that doing so was impossible Ross then signed with RCA on May 20 1981 At the time Ross s was music history s most expensive recording deal In October 1981 Ross released her first RCA album Why Do Fools Fall in Love The album sold over a million copies and featured hit singles such as her remake of the classic hit of the same name and Mirror Mirror Shortly thereafter Ross established her production company named Anaid Productions Diana spelled backwards and also began investing in real estate and touring extensively in the United States and abroad Before the release of Why Do Fools Fall in Love Ross hosted her first TV special in four years Diana Directed by Steve Binder the concert portions of the special were filmed at Inglewood California s 17 500 seat The Forum indoor stadium and featured performances by Michael Jackson Muhammad Ali Dallas actor Larry Hagman music impresario Quincy Jones and members of the Joffrey Ballet 33 34 In early 1982 Ross sang The Star Spangled Banner at Super Bowl XVI 35 and appeared on the musical variety show Soul Train 36 The episode devoted completely to her featured Ross performing several songs from Why Do Fools Fall in Love On May 6 1982 Ross was honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame 37 She followed up the success of Why Do Fools Fall in Love with Silk Electric which featured the Michael Jackson written and produced Muscles resulting in another Top 10 Grammy nominated success for Ross The album eventually went gold on the strength of that song In 1983 Ross ventured further out of her earlier soul based sound for a more pop rock oriented sound following the release of the Ross album Though the album featured the Top 40 hit single Pieces of Ice the Ross album did not generate any more hits or achieve gold status The Diana Ross Playground On July 21 1983 Ross performed a free concert on Central Park s Great Lawn aired live worldwide by Showtime Proceeds of the concert would be donated to build a playground in the singer s name Midway through the beginning of the show a torrential downpour began Ross tried to continue performing but the severe weather forced the show to be stopped after 45 minutes Ross urged the large crowd to exit the venue safely promising to perform the next day The next day s concert suffered no rain but the memorabilia that was supposed to be sold to raise money for the playground had already been destroyed by the storm When journalists discovered the exorbitant costs of the two concerts Ross faced criticism from Mayor Ed Koch and the Parks Department commissioner During a subsequent mayoral press conference Ross handed Koch a check for US 250 000 for the project 38 The Diana Ross Playground was built three years later 39 In 1984 Ross released Swept Away The album featured All of You a duet with friend Julio Iglesias The single was featured on both Ross s album and Iglesias s 1100 Bel Air Place his first English language album It became an international hit as did the Lionel Richie penned ballad Missing You composed as a tribute to Marvin Gaye who had been killed earlier that year Swept Away garnered gold record sales status Her 1985 album Eaten Alive produced by Barry Gibb of the Bee Gees garnered a number one single overseas and a Top 20 spot on the album charts The song Chain Reaction reached number one in the U K Australia South Africa Israel and Ireland and the title track a collaboration with Michael Jackson and Gibb also performed well Both songs had strong music videos that propelled the tracks to success The Eaten Alive video was patterned after the 1970s horror film The Island of Dr Moreau while the one for Chain Reaction saluted the 1960s American Bandstand style TV shows The video for Experience the third single from the album reignited the Eaten Alive romantic storyline with Ross and actor Joseph Gian Earlier in 1985 Ross appeared as part of USA for Africa s We Are the World charity single which sold over 20 million copies worldwide Ross s 1987 follow up to Eaten Alive Red Hot Rhythm amp Blues found less success it reached No 39 on the Billboard Top R amp B Albums chart and No 12 in Sweden However the album s accompanying television special was nominated for three Emmy Awards and won two Outstanding Costume Design for a Variety or Music Program Ray Aghayan and Ret Turner and Outstanding Lighting Direction Electronic for a Miniseries or a Special Greg Brunton 40 On January 27 1986 Ross hosted the 13th annual American Music Awards 41 Ross returned the next year to host the 14th annual telecast 42 1988 1999 Return to Motown Edit In 1988 Ross chose to not renew her RCA contract and had been in talks with her former mentor Berry Gordy to return to Motown When she learned of Gordy s plans to sell Motown Ross tried advising him against the decision though he ended up selling it to MCA Records in June of that year Following the sale of the company Ross was asked to return to the Motown label with the condition that she have shares in the company as a part owner Ross accepted the offer That same year Ross was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of the Supremes alongside her former singing partners Mary Wilson and Florence Ballard She also recorded the theme song to animated adventure drama film The Land Before Time 1988 If We Hold on Together became an international hit reaching number one in Japan Ross s next album 1989 s Workin Overtime was not a commercial success despite the title track reaching the top three of the Billboard s Hot R amp B Hip Hop Songs chart 43 The album peaked at No 34 on the Billboard Hot R amp B Albums chart and achieved top 25 placings in Japan and the UK attaining a silver certification in the latter country Subsequent releases such as The Force Behind the Power 1991 Take Me Higher 1995 and Every Day Is a New Day 1999 produced similar results achieving more international than domestic success In 1991 Ross became one of the few American artists to have headlined the annual Royal Variety Performance performing a selection of her UK hits before Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip Duke of Edinburgh at the Victoria Palace Theatre London 44 This marked her second appearance at the Royal Variety Performance the first being in 1968 with the Supremes The Force Behind the Power sparked an international comeback of sorts when the album went double platinum in the UK 45 led by the near chart topping No 2 UK hit single When You Tell Me That You Love Me The single s duet version with Irish boy band Westlife also hit No 2 in the UK in 2005 The album performed well across Europe and into Japan as The Force Behind the Power achieved Gold record status in the nation The album produced an astounding 9 singles across international territories including another Top 10 hit One Shining Moment In 1993 Ross returned to acting with a dramatic role in the television film Out of Darkness Ross won acclaim for her role in the TV movie and earned her third Golden Globe nomination although she did not win In 1994 One Woman The Ultimate Collection a career retrospective compilation became a number one hit in the UK selling quadruple platinum and selling well across Europe and in the English speaking world The retrospective was EMI s alternative to Motown s box set Forever Diana Musical Memoirs Ross performed during the opening ceremony of the 1994 FIFA World Cup held in Chicago where she infamously missed a penalty kick that was part of her act and during the pre match entertainment of the 1995 Rugby League World Cup final at Wembley Stadium 46 On January 28 1996 Ross performed at the Super Bowl XXX halftime show held at the Sun Devil Stadium in Tempe Arizona 47 Earlier that month Ross s Tokyo concert Diana Ross Live in Japan filmed live at the city s Nippon Budokan Stadium was released 48 In May 1996 Ross received the World Music Awards Lifelong Contribution to the Music Industry Award 49 On November 29 EMI released the compilation album Voice of Love featuring the singles In the Ones You Love You Are Not Alone and I Hear The Voice of Love 50 On February 8 1997 EMI released the Japanese edition of Ross s album A Gift of Love featuring the single Promise Me You ll Try 51 In May she performed with operatic tenors Placido Domingo and Jose Carreras again at the Superconcert of the Century concert held in Taipei Taiwan 52 She later inducted the Jackson 5 into The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame on May 6 53 On February 19 1998 Ross hosted the Motown 40 telecast on ABC 54 In 1999 Ross was named the most successful female singer in the history of the United Kingdom charts based upon a tally of her career hits Madonna would soon succeed Ross as the most successful female artist in the UK Later that year Ross presented at the 1999 MTV Video Music Awards in September of the year and shocked the audience by touching rapper Lil Kim s exposed breast and pasty covered nipple amazed at the young rapper s brashness 55 In 1999 she and Brandy Norwood co starred in the television movie Double Platinum which was aired prior to the release of Ross s album Every Day Is a New Day 2000 2003 Supremes reunion Edit Main articles Motown 25 Yesterday Today Forever and Return to Love Tour Ross reunited with Mary Wilson first in 1976 to attend the funeral service of Florence Ballard who had died in February of that year In March 1983 Ross agreed to reunite with Wilson and Cindy Birdsong for the television special Motown 25 Yesterday Today Forever The Supremes did not rehearse their performance for that evening due to time constraints A scheduled medley of hits was cancelled Instead of following producer Suzanne de Passe s instructions to recreate their choreography from their final Ed Sullivan Show appearance Wilson according to her autobiography planned with Birdsong to take a step forward every time Ross did the same then began to sing lead on the group s final number one hit song Someday We ll Be Together on which Wilson did not perform Later Wilson introduced Berry Gordy from the stage unaware that the program s script called for Ross to introduce Gordy at which point Ross subtly pushed down Wilson s hand held microphone stating It s been taken care of Ross then re introduced Gordy 56 57 These moments were excised from the final edit of the taped special but still made their way into the news media People magazine reported that Ross did some elbowing to get Wilson out of the spotlight 58 In 1999 Ross and mega tour promoter SFX Entertainment which later became Live Nation began negotiations regarding a Diana Ross tour which would include a Supremes segment During negotiations with Ross the promoters considered the creation of a Supremes tour instead Ross agreed As the tour s co producer Ross invited all living former Supremes to participate Neither Jean Terrell nor late 1970s member Susaye Greene chose to participate 70s Supremes Lynda Laurence and Scherrie Payne were then touring as Former Ladies of the Supremes Ross contacted Mary Wilson and Cindy Birdsong who then began negotiations with SFX Negotiations with Wilson and Birdsong who allowed Wilson to negotiate on her behalf failed when Wilson refused SFX s and Ross s offer of 4 million for 30 performances Following the passage of SFX s final deadline for Wilson to accept their offer Payne and Laurence already negotiating with SFX signed on to perform with Ross on the tour Laurence and Payne would later say that they got along well with Ross The newly formed group performed together on Today and The Oprah Winfrey Show as well as VH1 s VH1 Divas 2000 A Tribute to Diana Ross The Return to Love Tour launched in June 2000 to a capacity audience in Philadelphia The tour s final performance was at New York City s Madison Square Garden The tour was cancelled by SFX shortly thereafter due to mediocre ticket sales despite glowing reviews from media as varied as Billboard magazine the Detroit Free Press the Los Angeles Times and The Village Voice newspapers On December 5 2000 Ross received a Heroes Award from the National Academy of Recording Arts amp Sciences NARAS The Heroes Award is the highest distinction bestowed by the New York Chapter 59 Diana Ross s first public post RTL appearance was at a fundraiser for former president Bill Clinton In January 2001 Love amp Life The Very Best of Diana Ross was released in the United Kingdom becoming Ross s 17th gold album in that country In June Ross presented costume designer Bob Mackie with the Lifetime Achievement Award at the American Fashion Awards Two days before the September 11 attacks Ross performed God Bless America at the US Open before the tournament s women s final between Venus and Serena Williams Immediately following the attacks Ross performed the song again at Shea Stadium before the New York Mets first game after driving cross country to be with her children in the wake of the attacks flying in the U S was temporarily restricted 60 Ross teamed with legendary singers Patti LaBelle and Eartha Kitt among others for a Nile Rodgers produced recording of Sister Sledge s classic disco hit We Are Family recorded to benefit the families of 9 11 victims In May 2002 Ross and all five of her children appeared on Barbara Walters Mother s Day television special Shortly thereafter Ross admitted herself into the 30 day substance abuse program at the Promises Institute in Malibu California after friends and family began to notice a burgeoning alcohol problem Ross left the program three weeks later and began to fulfill previously scheduled concert dates beginning with a performance before a 60 000 strong crowd at London s Hyde Park for Prince Charles Prince s Trust charity U S ticket sales for the new tour were brisk from coast to coast Venues such as Long Island s Westbury Music Fair California s Cerritos Center for the Performing Arts and Humphrey s Concerts by the Bay attempted to add extra shows due to public demand Sold out performances in Boston and Ontario Canada followed In August shortly after the tour began however Ross re entered the Promises Institute s substance abuse rehabilitation program That December during her stay at Arizona s Canyon Ranch Health Resort Ross was pulled over by Tucson police for driving the wrong way on a one way street She failed a breathalizer test and was arrested for a DUI Ross was later sentenced to 48 hours in jail which she served near her home in Greenwich Connecticut In January 2003 Ross was honored as Humanitarian of the Year by Nile Rodgers We Are Family Foundation Shortly thereafter Ross was feted as an honored guest at the National Association of Black Owned Broadcasters Awards Later that year Ross was the guest performer at that year s Metropolitan Museum of Art s Costume Institute s annual gala in an ensemble custom designed by fashion designer Tom Ford followed by an appearance as the surprise celebrity model for American couturier Dennis Basso s runway show In February 2003 the Supremes were honored by the Rhythm and Blues Foundation with its Pioneer Award 61 2004 2019 Later career Edit Ross is applauded by her fellow Kennedy Center honorees as she is recognized for her career achievements by President George W Bush in the East Room of the White House Sunday December 2 2007 during the Kennedy Center Gala Reception From left to right singer songwriter Brian Wilson filmmaker Martin Scorsese Ross comedian actor and author Steve Martin and pianist Leon Fleisher In May 2004 Ross and daughter Tracee Ellis Ross appeared on the cover of Essence magazine in celebration of its 50th anniversary 62 On December 8 2004 Ross was the featured performer for Stevie Wonder s Billboard Music Awards Century Award tribute 63 On January 14 2005 Ross performed at the Tsunami Aid A Concert of Hope TV concert to help raise money for the tsunami victims of the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake 64 On January 20 2005 Ross launched her M A C Icon makeup collection as part of the beauty corporation s Icon Series 65 In 2005 Ross participated in Rod Stewart s Thanks for the Memory The Great American Songbook Volume IV recording a duet version of the Gershwin standard I ve Got a Crush on You The song was released as promotion for the album and later reached No 19 on the Billboard Hot Adult Contemporary chart marking her first Billboard chart entry since 2000 66 Ross was featured in another hit duet this time with Westlife on a cover of Ross s 1991 hit When You Tell Me That You Love Me repeating the original recording s chart success garnering a No 2 UK Singles Chart hit No 1 in Ireland Also in 2005 Ross was featured as an honored guest at Oprah Winfrey s Legends Ball Weekend a three day celebration honoring 25 African American women in art entertainment and civil rights On May 22 2006 a year after the celebration a one hour program about the weekend aired on ABC including celebrity interviews and behind the scenes moments 67 On March 22 2006 Ross s televised Central Park concerts entitled For One amp for All were named TV Land Awards Viewer s Choice for Television s Greatest Music Moment 68 In June 2006 Universal released Ross s shelved 1972 Blue album It peaked at No 2 on Billboard s Top Jazz Albums chart 69 Later in 2006 Ross released her first studio album in seven years with I Love You It would be released on EMI Manhattan Records in the United States in January 2007 70 EMI Inside later reported the album had sold more than 622 000 copies worldwide I Love You peaked at No 32 on Billboard s Hot 200 albums chart 71 and No 16 on Billboard s Top R amp B Albums chart Ross later ventured on a world tour to promote I Love You In 2007 Ross was honored with the BET Awards Lifetime Achievement Award and later as one of the honorees at the Kennedy Center Honors Ross in concert in Rotterdam Netherlands 2007 On August 28 2008 Ross performed at the opening of the US Open tennis tournament as part of a tribute to Billie Jean King 72 73 Ross headlined the 2008 Nobel Peace Prize Concert in Oslo Norway 74 75 In October 2009 Ross was the featured performer at the annual Symphonica in Rosso concert series held at the GelreDome Stadium in Arnhem Netherlands 76 In 2010 Ross embarked on her first headlining tour in three years titled the More Today Than Yesterday The Greatest Hits Tour Dedicated to the memory of her late friend Michael Jackson the concert tour garnered positive reviews nationwide 77 In 2011 Ross was inducted into the Michigan Rock and Roll Legends Hall of Fame 78 In February 2012 Ross received her first Grammy Award for Lifetime Achievement and announced the nominees for the Album of the Year 79 In May a DVD of her Central Park concert performances For One amp For All was released and featured commentary from Steve Binder who directed the special A month later on December 9 she performed as the marquee and headlining performer at the White House hosted Christmas in Washington concert where she performed before former President Barack Obama The event was later broadcast as an annual special on TNT In 2013 Ross completed a tour in South America and a tour in the United States On July 3 2014 Ross was awarded the Ella Fitzgerald Award for her extraordinary contribution to contemporary jazz vocals at the Montreal International Jazz Festival On November 20 2014 Ross presented the Dick Clark Award for Excellence to Taylor Swift at the American Music Awards In 2015 Ross appeared in the video for the song How to Live Alone performed by her son Evan Ross On April 1 2015 Ross began the first of nine performances as a part of her mini residency The Essential Diana Ross Some Memories Never Fade at The Venetian in Las Vegas Nevada 80 81 On November 27 2015 Motown Universal released the album Diana Ross Sings Songs from The Wiz recorded in 1978 The album features Ross s versions of songs from the film version of the musical The Wiz in which she starred along with Michael Jackson Nipsey Russell Ted Ross Richard Pryor and Lena Horne In February 2016 Ross resumed her In the Name of Love Tour which began in 2013 On November 22 2016 Ross was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President Obama 82 In December 2016 Billboard magazine named her the 50th most successful dance club artist of all time 83 On June 30 2017 Ross headlined the Essence Festival in New Orleans Louisiana with her daughter Rhonda Ross Kendrick performing as the opening act 84 85 On November 19 2017 Ross received the American Music Awards Lifetime Achievement Award 86 Ross performed several of her hits ending with Ain t No Mountain High Enough during which she brought all of her grandchildren onstage Her eldest grandson eight year old Raif Henok Emmanuel Kendrick son of Rhonda Ross Kendrick and husband Rodney performed an impromptu dance behind Ross which gained attention 87 Ross was then joined onstage by all of her children their spouses first ex husband Robert Ellis Smokey Robinson who brought Ross to Motown and Motown founder Berry Gordy In December 2017 Ross appeared on the Home Shopping Network to promote her first fragrance Diamond Diana 88 The fragrance sold out within hours Ross made several hour long appearances on the network and also released a tie in CD retrospective collection of her music titled Diamond Diana Diamond Diana peaked at No 6 on the Billboard R amp B Albums chart 89 and No 5 on its Top Album Sales chart 90 The CD s first single release Ain t No Mountain High Enough 2017 remixed by Eric Kupper reached No 1 on the Billboard Dance Club Songs chart 91 On February 8 2018 Ross began a new mini residency at Wynn Las Vegas 92 On August 4 2018 Ross scored another No 1 hit on Billboard s Top Dance Chart with I m Coming Out Upside Down 2018 93 She performed a song from a to be released compilation Christmas album at the Macy s Thanksgiving Day Parade on November 22 2018 94 In December 2018 Ross consolidated her status as a dance diva by ranking No 3 in the Billboard Dance Club Songs Artists year end chart 95 On February 10 2019 The Recording Academy honored Ross at the 61st Annual Grammy Awards 96 Ross performed The Best Years of My Life and Reach Out and Touch Somebody s Hand In 2019 her song The Boss was remixed by Eric Kupper as The Boss 2019 and reached No 1 on Billboard s Top Dance Chart on April 13 97 On October 10 2019 it was announced that Ross would play the Sunday legends slot on the Pyramid Stage at the Glastonbury Festival for the festival s 50th anniversary however the festival was postponed due to the COVID 19 pandemic Then on November 10 2021 Ross confirmed that she would play the legends slot at the 2022 festival 2020 present Thank You and Glastonbury Edit In May 2020 Ross released Supertonic Mixes a collection of nine of her greatest hits remixed by Eric Kupper and featuring her four back to back No 1 hits on Billboard Dance Club Songs chart Ain t No Mountain High Enough 2017 I m Coming Out Upside Down 2018 The Boss 2019 and Love Hangover 2020 In July 2020 Supertonic Mixes was also released on CD and crystal clear vinyl LP Ross released her twenty fifth studio album Thank You in November 2021 It was written and recorded during the COVID 19 pandemic lockdown and contains her first original material since 1999 s Every Day Is a New Day 98 Ross performing live at Longleat in Wiltshire England 2022 In May 2022 she released the single Turn Up the Sunshine a collaboration with psychedelic pop band Tame Impala The track is the lead single from the Jack Antonoff produced original soundtrack album of the film Minions The Rise of Gru With the exception of this track the album primarily features new spins on classic 1970s hits by artists such as Brittany Howard St Vincent H E R and many others On June 4 2022 Ross appeared as the finale act at the Platinum Party at the Palace in celebration of the Platinum Jubilee of Elizabeth II 99 100 On June 10 Ross kicked off the UK leg of her Thank You Tour at Cardiff Castle 101 On June 26 Ross appeared live on the Pyramid Stage at the Glastonbury Festival 102 103 104 On November 15 2022 Ross received a 2023 Grammy Award nomination in the Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album category for Thank You 105 Personal life EditRelationships and family Edit Ross has been married twice and has five children Ross became romantically involved with Motown CEO Berry Gordy in 1965 The relationship lasted several years resulting in the birth of Ross s eldest child Rhonda Suzanne Silberstein in August 1971 Two months into her pregnancy with Rhonda in January 1971 Ross married music executive Robert Ellis Silberstein 106 who raised Rhonda as his own daughter despite knowing her true paternity Ross told Rhonda that Gordy was her biological father when Rhonda was 13 years old Beforehand Rhonda referred to Gordy as Uncle B B Ross has two daughters with Silberstein Tracee Joy Silberstein Tracee Ellis Ross and Chudney Lane Silberstein born in 1972 and 1975 respectively 107 Ross and Silberstein divorced in 1977 108 Ross dated Gene Simmons bassist and co lead singer for the band Kiss from 1980 to 1983 109 They began dating after Cher who had remained friends with Simmons following their break up suggested he ask Ross to help him choose her Christmas present Simmons in his autobiography contends that he was not dating Cher when he met Ross Ross ended her relationship with Simmons when he gave Ross the erroneous impression that he had resumed his relationship with Cher Simmons story differed in 2015 when he revealed that he fell in love with Ross while dating Cher which ended Ross and Cher s friendship 110 Ross met her second husband Norwegian shipping magnate Arne Naess Jr in 1985 and married him the following year She became stepmother to his three elder children Katinka Christoffer and folk singer Leona Naess They have two sons together Ross Arne born in 1987 citation needed and Evan Olav born in 1988 Ross and Naess divorced in 2000 after press reports revealed that Naess had fathered a child with another woman in Norway 111 Ross considers Naess the love of her life 112 Naess fell to his death in a South African mountain climbing accident in 2004 113 Ross remains close with her three ex stepchildren Ross has seven grandchildren grandson Raif Henok born in 2009 to her daughter Rhonda grandsons Leif born on June 5 2016 and Indigo born 2017 born to her son Ross Naess 114 granddaughters Callaway Lane born in 2012 and Everlee born October 2019 born to Ross s daughter Chudney 115 granddaughter Jagger Snow born in 2015 and grandson Ziggy born in 2020 to her son Evan 116 117 Religious views Edit Diana Ross was raised in the Baptist church According to her 1993 autobiography Secrets of a Sparrow 118 her initial performances were in the Bessemer Baptist Church of Bessemer Alabama led by her maternal grandfather Pastor William Moten who with his wife raised her and her siblings there during their mother s bouts with tuberculosis 2002 arrest Edit Diana Ross was arrested for DUI on December 30 2002 in Tucson Arizona while undergoing substance abuse treatment at a local rehabilitation facility 119 She later served a two day sentence near her Connecticut estate 120 Legacy Edit In 1982 Diana Ross received her first star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame Apart from this star Ross also received a second for her work with the Supremes Ross has influenced many artists including Michael Jackson Beyonce 121 Madonna 122 Jade Thirlwall Questlove 123 Ledisi 124 and the Ting Tings 125 Several of Ross s songs have been covered and sampled Ain t No Mountain High Enough has been featured in the film Chicken Little The song has also been covered live and on albums by Jennifer Lopez and Amy Winehouse Janet Jackson sampled Love Hangover on her 1997 song My Need featured on the album The Velvet Rope having already sampled Love Child and Someday We ll Be Together by Ross amp the Supremes on her 1993 tracks You Want This and If both released as singles from the Janet album Love Hangover was also sampled in Monica s 1998 number 1 The First Night as well as being sampled by Will Smith Master P who also sampled Missing You Heavy D and Bone Thugs n Harmony It s Your Move was sampled in 2011 by Vektroid for her song Lisa Frank 420 Modern Computing which appeared in her ninth album Floral Shoppe under her one time alias Macintosh Plus It s My House was sampled by Lady Gaga for her song Replay which appeared on the 2020 album Chromatica Various works have been inspired by Ross s career and life The character of Deena Jones in both the play and film versions of Dreamgirls was inspired by Ross 126 Motown The Musical is a Broadway musical that launched on April 14 2013 It is the story of Berry Gordy s creation of Motown Records and his romance with Diana Ross She was portrayed by Valisia LeKae in 2013 and Lucy St Louis in 2016 Ross was also portrayed by Candice Marie Woods from 2017 to 2019 and Deri Andra Tucker 2021 in the stage play Ain t Too Proud There have been many other petryals of Ross in films television and other media including Holly Robinson Peete in The Jacksons An American Dream 1992 and Michelle Williams of Destiny s Child on American Soul 2019 As a member of the Supremes her songs Stop In the Name of Love and You Can t Hurry Love are among the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame s 500 Songs that Shaped Rock and Roll 127 They were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1988 received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 1994 and entered into the Vocal Group Hall of Fame in 1998 In 2004 Rolling Stone placed the group at number 96 on their list of the 100 Greatest Artists of All Time 128 As lead singer of the Supremes and as a solo artist Ross has earned 18 number one singles 12 as lead singer of the Supremes and 6 as a solo artist Ross is the only female artist to have number one singles as a solo artist as the other half of a duet Lionel Richie as a member of a trio the Supremes and as an ensemble member We Are the World by USA for Africa Ross was featured on the Notorious B I G s 1997 number one hit Mo Money Mo Problems since her voice from her 1980 hit I m Coming Out was sampled for the song Billboard magazine named Ross the female entertainer of the century in 1976 Ross is also one of the few recording artists to have two stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame one as a solo artist and the other as a member of the Supremes After her 1983 concert in Central Park Diana Ross Playground was named in her honor with a groundbreaking opening ceremony in 1986 Berry Gordy asked Ross to introduce The Jackson Five to the public Eventually public misunderstandings resulted in Ross erroneously being given credit for the discovery of the Jackson 5 Gordy decided that the misunderstanding was good for business so her discovery became a part of Motown s marketing and promotions plan for the Jackson 5 Consequently their debut album was titled Diana Ross Presents The Jackson 5 Motown producer Bobby Taylor claims to have discovered the Jacksons though singer Gladys Knight also makes the claim 129 Even so Ross embraced the role and became a good friend of Michael Jackson serving as a mother figure to him 130 On January 24 1985 Kaufman Astoria Studios held a dedication ceremony in Astoria Queens to honor Ross by naming Studio 4 at the studios after her The Diana Ross Building served as an acknowledgement of Ross contribution in bringing the studio back to the forefront after being faced with possible demolition through her involvement in The Wiz 131 In 2006 Ross was one of 25 African American women saluted at Oprah Winfrey s Legends Ball a three day celebration honoring their contributions to art entertainment and civil rights Diana Ross was named one of the Five Mighty Pop Divas of the Sixties along with Dusty Springfield Aretha Franklin Martha Reeves and Dionne Warwick 132 Awards and nominations EditMain article List of awards and nominations received by Diana Ross On November 16 2016 Ross was announced as one of the 21 recipients of the Presidential Medal of Freedom the nation s highest civilian honor 133 In 2023 Supremes co founders Ross and the late Mary Wilson and Florence Ballard received the Grammys Lifetime Achievement Award with Ross becoming the first woman to win the award twice she earned a solo honor in 2012 134 Discography EditMain articles Diana Ross discography and The Supremes discography Studio albums Diana Ross 1970 Everything Is Everything 1970 Surrender 1971 Touch Me in the Morning 1973 Diana amp Marvin with Marvin Gaye 1973 Last Time I Saw Him 1973 Diana Ross 1976 Baby It s Me 1977 Ross 1978 The Boss 1979 Diana 1980 Why Do Fools Fall in Love 1981 Silk Electric 1982 Ross 1983 Swept Away 1984 Eaten Alive 1985 Red Hot Rhythm amp Blues 1987 Workin Overtime 1989 The Force Behind the Power 1991 A Very Special Season 1994 Take Me Higher 1995 Every Day Is a New Day 1999 Blue 2006 I Love You 2006 Diana Ross Sings Songs from The Wiz 2015 Thank You 2021 Filmography Edit Diana Ross at the Academy Awards in 1990 Lady Sings the Blues 1972 Mahogany 1975 The Wiz 1978 Out of Darkness 1994 Double Platinum 1999 made directly for television Television EditT A M I Show with the Supremes 1964 Tarzan with the Supremes 1968 TCB with the Supremes 1968 The Dinah Shore Special Like Hep with Dinah Shore and Lucille Ball 1969 G I T on Broadway with the Supremes and the Temptations 1969 Diana 1971 The Jackson 5ive 1971 Make Room for Granddaddy 1971 Here I Am An Evening with Diana Ross 1977 The Muppet Show 1977 Standing Room Only HBO 1980 Diana CBS TV Special 1981 Motown 25 Yesterday Today Forever 1983 Diana Ross Live in Central Park For One and For All Showtime 1983 Diana Ross Red Hot Rhythm and Blues 1987 Diana Ross Workin Overtime HBO World Stage 1989 Diana Ross Live The Lady Sings Jazz amp Blues Stolen Moments 1992 Christmas in Vienna 1992 BET Walk of Fame 1993 Always is Forever 30th Anniversary 1993 1994 FIFA World Cup 1994 Super Bowl XXX halftime show NBC 1996 Super Concert of the Century 1997 An Audience with Diana Ross 1999 VH1 Divas 2000 A Tribute to Diana Ross 2000 The Making and Meaning of We Are Family documentary 2002 Tsunami Aid 2005 BET Awards 2007 2007 Kennedy Center Honors 2007 Nobel Peace Prize Concert 2008 The Oprah Winfrey Show Farewell and Salute 2011 Christmas in Washington 2012 The Voice 2014 HSN 2017 Ashlee Evan 2018 Stage EditAn Evening with Diana Ross 1976 Tours EditHeadlining The Diana Ross Show 1970 75 An Evening with Diana Ross 1976 78 Diana Ross Tour 1978 81 Diana Ross on Tour 1982 Up Front Tour 1983 Missing You Tour 1984 Eaten Alive Tour 1985 88 Workin Overtime World Tour 1989 Here amp Now Tour 1991 92 Forever Diana World Tour 1993 94 Take Me Higher Tour 1995 96 135 Voice of Love Tour 1997 98 136 Always is Forever Tour 1999 Live Love Tour 2003 137 This is It 2004 138 I Love You Tour 2006 08 139 More Today Than Yesterday The Greatest Hits Tour 2010 11 140 In the Name of Love Tour 2013 17 141 Brand New Day Tour 2019 142 Music Box Tour 2019 143 Thank You Tour previously named Top of The World Tour 2022 144 Co headlining tours Superconcert of the Century with Placido Domingo and Jose Carreras 1997 Return to Love Tour with former members of the Supremes 2000 145 Residency shows Some Memories Never Fade 2015 2017 146 All the Best 2016 147 Endless Memories 2017 18 148 Music and Love 2018 149 Diamond Diana 2019 150 An Extraordinary Evening 2020 151 Bibliography EditRoss Diana October 1993 Secrets of a Sparrow Random House ISBN 0 679 42874 7 Ross Diana March 1995 When You Dream Ross Diana December 2002 Shelnutt Rosanne ed Diana Ross Going Back New York Universe ISBN 0 7893 0797 9 A scrapbook style collection of photographs See also Edit Music portalList of artists who reached number one in the United States List of artists who reached number one on the U S Dance Club Songs chart List of Billboard number one singles List of Billboard number one dance club songsReferences Edit Allard Francois Lecocq Richard 2018 Diana Ross Godmother and Muse Michael Jackson All the Songs The Story Behind Every Track Octopus Books ISBN 9781788401234 Archived from the original on August 1 2020 Retrieved November 11 2019 Top 10 Girl Groups of All Time page 1 Billboard July 11 2017 Archived from the original on September 10 2016 Retrieved April 17 2020 Lipshutz Jason April 28 2014 Top 40 Girl Group Songs Of All Time Billboard Archived from the original on February 23 2015 Retrieved February 28 2015 Diana Ross to play The Joint in April Tulsaworld com Archived from the original on August 10 2021 Retrieved August 10 2021 Greatest of All Time Hot 100 Artists Billboard Retrieved March 26 2022 Diana Ross Greatest of All Time Hot 100 Artists Billboard Retrieved March 26 2022 Whitburn Joel 2019 Joel Whitburn s Top Pop Singles 1955 2018 Record Research ISBN 978 0 89820 233 5 Diana Ross Was Born on March 26 1944 Music Trivia Musicbyday com Archived from the original on May 4 2012 Retrieved April 10 2012 Whitburn Joel The Billboard Book of Number 1 Hits p 207 Haskins James 1982 I m Gonna Make You Love Me The Story of Diana Ross Dell p 12 ISBN 9780440941729 It s Clear That Diana Ross s Family Has Endless Love For Each Other Oklahoman com March 27 2019 Archived from the original on September 9 2021 Retrieved February 20 2021 1962 Cass Technical Yearbook classmates com Archived from the original on August 10 2014 Retrieved July 28 2014 Hudson s Encyclopedia of Detroit Detroit Historical Society Retrieved June 5 2022 a b Diana Ross interviewed on the Pop Chronicles 1969 Wilson Mary 1999 Dreamgirl amp Supreme Faith My Life as a Supreme Rowman amp Littlefield pp 169 170 ISBN 9780815410003 Christgau Robert February 25 1973 Diana Ross and THE Supreme Newsday Archived from the original on March 23 2019 Retrieved March 23 2019 Benjaminson Peter The Lost Supreme The Life of Dreamgirl Florence Ballard Chicago Chicago Review Press November 2007 75 79 ISBN 1 55652 705 5 George Nelson 2007 Where Did Our Love Go The Rise and Fall of the Motown Sound Urbana and Chicago University of Illinois Press pp 159 60 183 88 ISBN 978 0 252 07498 1 Diana Ross and the Supremes perform their final concert HISTORY Archived from the original on February 27 2021 Retrieved February 20 2021 a b Posner Gerald Motown Music Money Sex and Power p 286 Diana Ross Fan Club July 24 2016 An Evening With Diana Ross 1977 TV Special Full Show YouTube Archived from the original on June 13 2019 Retrieved October 30 2016 Nandy Ross June 20 2015 Diana Ross Receiving Special Tony Award 31th Annual Tony Awards 1977 YouTube Archived from the original on December 14 2019 Retrieved October 30 2016 Sharp Kathleen 2003 Mr and Mrs Hollywood Edie and Lew Wasserman and Their Entertainment Empire Carroll amp Graf Publishers pp 357 58 ISBN 0 7867 1220 1 a b Harpole Charles 2003 History of the American Cinema Simon amp Schuster pp 64 65 219 220 290 ISBN 0 684 80463 8 a b Adrahtas Thomas 2006 A Lifetime to Get Here Diana Ross The American Dreamgirl AuthorHouse pp 163 67 ISBN 1 4259 7140 7 Skow John October 30 1978 Nowhere Over the Rainbow Time Archived from the original on December 5 2008 Retrieved November 6 2007 Moon Spencer Hill George 1997 Reel Black Talk A Sourcebook of 50 American Filmmakers Greenwood Press xii ISBN 0 313 29830 0 Benshoff Harry M Griffin Sean 2004 America on Film Representing Race Class Gender and Sexuality at the Movies Blackwell Publishing p 88 ISBN 0 631 22583 8 George Nelson 1985 Where Did Our Love Go The Rise and Fall of the Motown Sound St Martin s Press p 193 Diana Ross Fan Club August 14 2016 Diana Ross guest host of the Tonight Show July 16 1979 Full Episode YouTube Archived from the original on September 2 2019 Retrieved October 30 2016 TheReturnOfStephan1 June 13 2009 Diana Ross Ain t No Mountain High Enough Caesar s Palace 1979 Opening Part 1 of 17 YouTube Archived from the original on September 4 2014 Retrieved October 30 2016 Scott Pangburn December 22 2015 The Boss Macy s Parade YouTube Archived from the original on November 22 2017 Retrieved October 30 2016 TV AN HOUR OF DIANA ROSS The New York Times March 2 1981 Archived from the original on March 16 2018 Retrieved March 16 2018 Nandy Ross November 4 2016 Diana Ross Diana TV Special 1981 Full Show YouTube Archived from the original on September 11 2019 Retrieved March 4 2018 Scott Pangburn December 23 2015 The Star Spangled Banner YouTube Archived from the original on September 7 2016 Retrieved March 4 2018 fred fishers April 23 2017 Diana Ross Full Episode Soul Train 1982 Interview with Don Cornelius Archived from the original on March 17 2020 Retrieved March 4 2018 via YouTube Diana Ross The Hollywood Walk of Fame Hwof com Archived from the original on March 3 2018 Retrieved March 3 2018 Diana Ross Comes Up With 250 000 For NYC Playground Jet Johnson Publishing Company February 6 1984 Archived from the original on September 9 2021 Retrieved October 30 2020 via Google Books Anderson Susan Heller and Deirdre Carmody September 12 1986 New York Day by Day Start at Ross Playground Archived July 21 2018 at the Wayback Machine The New York Times dianarossbroadcast September 5 2009 Diana Ross Red Hot Rhythm amp Blues 1 7 YouTube Archived from the original on August 20 2019 Retrieved February 12 2018 Nandy Ross July 11 2015 Diana Ross Eaten Alive Live 13th Annual AMA s 1986 YouTube Archived from the original on September 18 2017 Retrieved February 16 2018 Nandy Ross May 10 2017 Diana Ross Touch By Touch at 14th Annual AMA s 1987 YouTube Archived from the original on September 2 2019 Retrieved February 16 2018 Diana Ross Workin Overtime Chart History Billboard Archived from the original on May 12 2018 Retrieved February 12 2018 Diana Ross Fan Club May 25 2016 Diana Ross Live at The Royal Variety Performance 1991 Full Concert YouTube Archived from the original on November 26 2019 Retrieved February 12 2018 BPI 1991 UK Music Week Bloomfield Craig June 2 2011 Grace Jones and FIFA Diana Ross at USA 94 and six of the best unlikely entertainers at sport talksport com talkSPORT Archived from the original on January 4 2014 Retrieved January 4 2014 Nandy Ross July 11 2015 Diana Ross Half Time Show at Super Bowl XXX 1996 Archived from the original on February 8 2018 Retrieved February 12 2018 via YouTube Nandy Ross October 4 2016 Diana Ross Live in Tokyo Japan 1996 Full Concert Archived from the original on April 9 2019 Retrieved February 12 2018 via YouTube Nandy Ross June 22 2015 Diana Ross Live 1996 World Music Awards YouTube Archived from the original on March 10 2020 Retrieved February 12 2018 YouTube Youtube com Archived from the original on March 10 2020 Retrieved February 12 2018 Junior Lara November 3 2012 Diana Ross Promise me You ll Try HQ BEST YouTube Archived from the original on March 10 2020 Retrieved February 12 2018 Nandy Ross November 9 2016 Diana Ross Placido Domingo amp Jose Carreras Super Concert Taipei Taiwan 1997 Archived from the original on August 20 2019 Retrieved February 12 2018 via YouTube mjsoul1982 June 5 2012 The Jacksons amp Diana Ross on Rock amp Roll Hall of Fame Pt 1 YouTube Archived from the original on May 20 2020 Retrieved February 12 2018 fred fishers November 7 2016 Motown 40 The Music Is Forever 1 YouTube Archived from the original on March 19 2019 Retrieved February 12 2018 Diana Ross and Lil Kim s wild VMA moment Archived September 24 2013 at the Wayback Machine Lisa Costantini August 21 2002 Entertainment Weekly Retrieved March 26 2007 Wilson Mary Dreamgirl My Life as a Supreme Taraborrelli Randy Call Her Miss Ross The Unauthorized Biography of Diana Ross George Nelson Where Did Our Love Go The Rise amp Fall of Motown Posner Gerald Motown Music Money Sex and Power pp 308 09 and Taraborrelli Randy The Unauthorized Biography of Diana Ross Wilson Mary Dreamgirl My Life as a Supreme pp 1 5 Taken from Wilson Mary and Romanowski Patricia 1986 1990 2000 Dreamgirl amp Supreme Faith My Life as a Supreme New York Cooper Square Publishers ISBN 0 8154 1000 X DIANA ROSS AND B B KING RECEIVE HEROES AWARDS UPI Archived from the original on February 10 2018 Retrieved February 12 2018 MLB September 11 2017 Diana Ross performs God Bless America at Shea YouTube Archived from the original on August 20 2019 Retrieved February 12 2018 Pioneer Awards Archived from the original on March 2 2016 Retrieved June 5 2022 Miss Diana Ross Pinterest Archived from the original on August 2 2020 Retrieved February 10 2018 BronzeVenus July 23 2007 Diana Ross Stevie Wonder Tribute YouTube Archived from the original on May 11 2019 Retrieved February 10 2018 Ilona D August 2 2011 Diana Ross Tsunami Aid Concert of Hope 2005 YouTube Archived from the original on August 20 2019 Retrieved February 10 2018 dianarossitalianfan September 2 2011 Diana Ross Mac s 2005 Beauty Icon Paris 2005 YouTube Archived from the original on November 30 2017 Retrieved February 10 2018 Diana Ross I ve Got A Crush on You Chart History Billboard Archived from the original on May 12 2018 Retrieved February 10 2018 The Legends Ball Archived from the original on February 10 2018 Retrieved February 10 2018 Bennediict January 6 2010 Diana Ross Medley YouTube Archived from the original on August 25 2019 Retrieved February 10 2018 Diana Ross Blue Chart History Billboard Archived from the original on May 18 2018 Retrieved February 10 2018 Cohen Jonathan December 13 2006 New Diana Ross Album To Get U S Release Billboard Archived from the original on August 19 2020 Retrieved April 17 2020 Diana Ross I Love You Chart History Billboard Archived from the original on May 18 2018 Retrieved February 10 2018 Diana Ross sings at US Open Tennis tribute to Billie Jean Ki Archived from the original on February 10 2018 Retrieved February 10 2018 Bennediict February 8 2009 Diana Ross US Open 2006 Part 1 YouTube Archived from the original on March 8 2020 Retrieved February 10 2018 Diana Ross To Headline Nobel Peace Prize Concert Billboard October 16 2008 Archived from the original on May 12 2018 Retrieved February 10 2018 Dellerss December 12 2008 Diana Ross Instrumental Intro amp I m Coming Out live at the Nobel peace prize concert YouTube Archived from the original on October 17 2020 Retrieved February 10 2018 greattime007 October 17 2009 DIANA ROSS LIVE 2009 Symphonica in Rosso YouTube Archived from the original on March 10 2020 Pareles Jon May 20 2010 Diana Ross at Radio City From Motown to Disco and Beyond The New York Times Archived from the original on February 10 2018 Retrieved February 12 2018 Johnson Gary Michigan Rock and Roll Legends DIANA ROSS Michiganrockandrolllegends com Archived from the original on October 5 2017 Retrieved September 15 2018 Diana Ross GRAMMY com March 17 2014 Archived from the original on February 7 2019 Retrieved January 31 2019 Confirmed Diana Ross returns to Las Vegas with start of mini residency Las Vegas Sun News Archived from the original on July 16 2015 Retrieved July 15 2015 Weatherfordlas Mike January 26 2015 Diana Ross doing nine show stretch at Venetian Las Vegas Review Journal Archived from the original on July 16 2015 Retrieved July 15 2015 Rhodan Maya November 22 2016 President Obama Awards 21 Presidential Medals of Freedom Time Archived from the original on April 20 2017 Retrieved April 19 2017 Greatest of All Time Top Dance Club Artists Page 1 Billboard Archived from the original on July 7 2017 Retrieved April 17 2020 ESSENCE Fest Exclusive Diana Ross Talks Legacy Proudest Moments amp What She s Looking Forward To About Performing In NOLA Archived from the original on February 10 2018 Retrieved February 10 2018 freshfittedz June 30 2017 Diana Ross Essence Festival 2017 YouTube Archived from the original on September 2 2019 Retrieved February 10 2018 Diana Ross Reminded Us All Why She s a Legend at the AMAs theamas com November 19 2017 Archived from the original on February 10 2018 Retrieved February 10 2018 Shapiro Rebecca November 20 2017 Diana Ross Grandson Stole The Show During Her AMA Performance HuffPost Archived from the original on February 10 2018 Retrieved February 10 2018 Diamond Diana Diana Ross 3 4 fl oz Eau de Parfum 8520364 HSN HSN Archived from the original on February 10 2018 Retrieved February 9 2018 R amp B Albums Billboard Archived from the original on March 31 2018 Retrieved February 9 2018 Top Album Sales Page 1 Billboard Archived from the original on March 10 2018 Retrieved February 9 2018 Dance Songs Top Dance Music Chart Billboard Archived from the original on March 28 2018 Retrieved February 9 2018 Las Vegas Shows Wynn Las Vegas amp Encore Resort Wynnlasvegas com Archived from the original on February 9 2018 Retrieved February 9 2018 Dance Songs Top Dance Music Chart Billboard com Archived from the original on July 31 2018 Retrieved September 15 2018 Diana Ross John Legend Bad Bunny Kane Brown amp Ella Mai Set For Macy s Thanksgiving Parade Billboard Archived from the original on November 1 2018 Retrieved November 1 2018 2018 Billboard Year End Charts Dance Club Songs Artists Billboard Archived from the original on December 18 2018 Retrieved September 9 2021 Diana Ross Is Set To Perform At The 2019 GRAMMYs GRAMMY com January 30 2019 Archived from the original on January 11 2020 Retrieved January 31 2019 DANCE CLUB SONGS Billboard Archived from the original on April 17 2019 Retrieved May 24 2019 Snapes Laura June 17 2021 Diana Ross announces first new album in 15 years The Guardian Archived from the original on June 17 2021 Retrieved June 17 2021 Platinum Jubilee concert Diana Ross and Queen to perform for the Queen BBC News May 18 2022 Retrieved May 19 2022 Kreps Daniel June 5 2022 See Queen Adam Lambert Duran Duran Diana Ross Perform at Platinum Jubilee Concert Rolling Stone Retrieved June 27 2022 Colderick Stephanie June 9 2022 Diana Ross in Cardiff 2022 List of banned items from the Cardiff Castle gig walesonline co uk Retrieved July 15 2022 Savage Mark June 26 2022 Diana Ross brings Motown glamour to Glastonbury BBC News Retrieved June 27 2022 Beaumont Mark June 27 2022 Diana Ross review Glastonbury 2022 Seventies throwbacks from a beloved pop icon The Independent Retrieved June 27 2022 Petridis Alexis June 26 2022 Diana Ross at Glastonbury review disco diva detonates explosion of joy The Guardian Retrieved June 27 2022 2023 GRAMMY Nominations See The Complete Nominees List Grammy com Retrieved February 2 2023 LISTEN 15 songs showcasing Diana Ross as she celebrates her 70th Globalnews ca March 26 2014 Archived from the original on July 15 2015 Retrieved July 15 2015 Windeler Robert January 26 1976 Mr amp Mrs Diana Ross People Archived from the original on September 3 2014 Retrieved September 1 2014 McMurran Kristin January 15 1979 Showbiz Wiz People Archived from the original on September 3 2014 Retrieved September 1 2014 Jones Emma June 1 2015 Gene Simmons I was a horny 14 year old boy in the body of a man Irish Mirror Archived from the original on April 20 2017 Retrieved April 19 2017 Gene Simmons fell for Diana Ross while dating Cher The Washington Post June 1 2015 Archived from the original on June 21 2018 Retrieved April 23 2018 Stewart Allison November 16 2004 A suburban mom Diana Ross at 60 Chicago Tribune Archived from the original on September 3 2014 Retrieved September 1 2014 Supreme Icon Diana Ross Her 5 Children and Show Stopping Performance The Oprah Winfrey Show Season 25 Episode 93 February 25 2011 Ross ex husband fell to his death BBC January 14 2004 Archived from the original on November 29 2014 Retrieved September 1 2014 Non loginwalled link at bibliogram pussthecat org Archived December 22 2021 at the Wayback Machine Instagram post by kimberly ryan Jun 8 2016 at 12 45 am UTC Instagram Archived from the original on September 9 2021 Retrieved July 18 2016 Diana Ross has Five Children and Says She Has So Much to Be Proud of Oprah Magazine October 16 2019 Archived from the original on December 8 2019 Retrieved December 7 2019 Meet Diana Ross Just Born Granddaughter Callaway Lane Us Weekly September 22 2012 Archived from the original on September 1 2014 Retrieved September 1 2014 Evan Ross and Ashlee Simpson Welcome Daughter Jagger Snow People July 31 2015 Archived from the original on March 3 2016 Retrieved August 1 2015 Secrets of a Sparrow ISBN 0679428569 Peterson Todd Diana Ross Gets Jail Time for DUI Diana Ross People Archived from the original on October 29 2013 Retrieved December 27 2013 Haberman Lia February 13 2004 Diana Ross Does Time Eonline com Archived from the original on April 20 2017 Retrieved April 19 2017 Beyonce Influences Shmoop com Archived from the original on July 16 2015 Retrieved July 15 2015 Madonna Diana Ross as her inspiration growing up archived from the original on April 20 2020 retrieved September 25 2019 Commentary Where s the love for the supreme Diana Ross Los Angeles Times Archived from the original on September 28 2016 Retrieved June 5 2022 Commentary Where s the love for the supreme Diana Ross Los Angeles Times February 8 2012 Archived from the original on June 8 2016 Retrieved April 17 2020 Walden Eric March 26 2015 Concert preview Ting Tings feeling a bit less Super Critical now The Salt Lake Tribune Archived from the original on March 14 2016 Retrieved February 23 2016 Fontenot Robert September 10 2007 American Idol s Jennifer Hudson as the Supremes Florence Ballard Oldies about com Archived from the original on December 27 2013 Retrieved December 27 2013 The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame s 500 Songs That Shaped Rock and Roll by artist Rock and Roll Hall of Fame 2007 Retrieved on April 27 2007 Archived May 14 2007 at the Wayback Machine The Immortals The First Fifty Rolling Stone Issue 946 March 24 2004 Retrieved on July 4 2004 Taraborrelli J Randy May 1 2007 Diana Ross A Biography Citadel p 209 ISBN 978 0 8065 2849 6 Ebert John David 2010 Dead Celebrities Living Icons Tragedy and Fame in the Age of the Multimedia Superstar Praeger ABC CLIO p 191 ISBN 9780313377648 Archived from the original on August 1 2020 Retrieved February 1 2018 Diana Ross jokes with Cheri l and George Kaufman after ce gettyimages com Dusty Springfield on The Ed Sullivan Show EdSullivan com Retrieved April 20 2022 These Are The 21 People Receiving The Nation s Highest Civilian Honor Npr org November 16 2016 Archived from the original on November 16 2016 Retrieved November 16 2016 The Supremes Get Grammy Lifetime Achievement Honor as the Late Mary Wilson s Friends and Family Celebrate variety com February 3 2023 Retrieved February 18 2023 Adrahtas Tom November 20 2006 Good Morning Heartache A Lifetime to Get Here Diana Ross The American Dreamgirl Bloomington Indiana AuthorHouse p 268 ISBN 9781425971403 Archived from the original on September 9 2021 Retrieved October 30 2020 Davis Sharon 1998 September 1971 Diana Ross I m Still Waiting Every Chart Topper Tells a Story The Seventies Edinburgh Scotland Mainstream Publishing Company ISBN 9781780574103 Archived from the original on September 9 2021 Retrieved October 30 2020 Diana Ross announces two Irish dates Hot Press December 5 2003 Archived from the original on February 9 2020 Retrieved February 8 2020 Diana Ross This Is It Sheffield Hallam FM Arena The Press March 17 2004 Archived from the original on February 9 2020 Retrieved February 8 2020 Diana Ross in UK for spring tour BBC News Online British Broadcasting Corporation February 14 2007 Archived from the original on January 4 2009 Retrieved February 8 2020 Castillo Arielle February 23 2012 Diana Ross at Hard Rock Live February 23 Miami New Times Archived from the original on February 9 2020 Retrieved February 8 2020 Diana Ross Returns to the Colosseum at Caesars Palace Friday September 19 Press release Las Vegas Nevada ARG Presents June 9 2014 Archived from the original on February 9 2020 Retrieved February 8 2020 Motown legend Diana Ross to perform at Red Rocks in July KDVR Nexstar Media Group February 12 2019 Archived from the original on February 9 2020 Retrieved February 8 2020 Johnson Kevin C Still Supreme Diana Ross offers the hits and shows who s the Boss at Fox Theatre show St Louis Post Dispatch Lee Enterprises Archived from the original on February 9 2020 Retrieved February 8 2020 Stickler Jon May 20 2021 Diana Ross Announces Thank You UK Tour For Summer 2022 NME Stereoboard Archived from the original on June 24 2021 Retrieved June 17 2021 Segal David July 8 2000 Love Is Gone Diana Ross s Troubled Tour The Washington Post Archived from the original on February 9 2020 Retrieved February 8 2020 Dalton Deron February 2 2015 DIANA ROSS SET TO DO A MINI RESIDENCY IN LAS VEGAS Electronic Urban Report Archived from the original on February 9 2020 Retrieved February 8 2020 Fonseca Julio December 5 2016 Diana Ross reigns supreme with the NSO Metro Weekly Archived from the original on December 6 2016 Retrieved April 20 2017 Sources for the 2017 18 New York City Las Vegas residency show Noh David April 20 2017 Empress of Pop Sings City Center Manhattan Express Archived from the original on November 22 2018 Retrieved April 20 2017 Radke Brock February 15 2018 Diana Ross gets comfortable but stays glamorous at Encore Theater Las Vegas Sun Greenspun Media Group Archived from the original on August 12 2018 Retrieved August 11 2018 Diana Ross performing limited engagement at Wynn Las Vegas KTNV TV E W Scripps Company June 5 2017 Archived from the original on August 12 2018 Retrieved August 11 2018 Dawson Lamar September 21 2018 Fall Preview 2018 5 Upcoming Concerts We Bloom For NewNowNext Viacom Media Networks Archived from the original on February 9 2020 Retrieved February 8 2020 Papadatos Markos February 5 2019 Diana Ross to perform Diamond Diana shows at Wynn Las Vegas Digital Journal Archived from the original on February 9 2020 Retrieved February 8 2020 Diana Ross An Extraordinary Evening The Official Website of Las Vegas Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority February 2020 Archived from the original on February 9 2020 Retrieved February 8 2020 External links Edit Wikimedia Commons has media related to Diana Ross Wikiquote has quotations related to Diana Ross Official website Diana Ross at AllMusic Diana Ross at AllMovie Diana Ross in the Hollywood Walk of Fame Directory Diana Ross at IMDb Diana Ross at the Internet Broadway Database Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Diana Ross amp oldid 1143589002, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,

article

, read, download, free, free download, mp3, video, mp4, 3gp, jpg, jpeg, gif, png, picture, music, song, movie, book, game, games.