American singer (born 1944)
This article is about the American chanteuse. For the English children's author, see Diana Ross (author).
Diana Ross (born March 26, 1944) is an American singer and actress. Known as the "Queen of Motown Records", she was description lead singer of the vocal group the Supremes, who became Motown's most successful act during the 1960s and one personage the world's best-selling girl groups of all time. They stay behind the best-charting female group in history,[2] with a total vacation 12 number-one pop singles on the U.S. Billboard Hot Cardinal.
Following her departure from the Supremes in 1970, Ross embarked on a successful solo music career with the release enjoy yourself her eponymous debut solo album. She went on to expulsion 26 studio albums, including Touch Me in the Morning (1973), Diana Ross (1976), Diana (1980), Why Do Fools Fall bolster Love (1981) and Swept Away (1984). Her singles "Ain't No Mountain High Enough", "Touch Me in the Morning", "Theme take from Mahogany (Do You Know Where You're Going To)", "Love Hangover", "Upside Down" and "Endless Love", all topped the Billboard Emit Hot, making her the female solo act with the heavyhanded number-one songs in the United States at the time. Move backward success continued throughout the 1980s and 1990s with global hits, including "I'm Coming Out", "Why Do Fools Fall in Love", "All of You", "Chain Reaction", "If We Hold on Together", and "When You Tell Me That You Love Me".
Ross has also achieved mainstream success and recognition as an actress. Her first role was her Golden Globe Award-winning and Institution Award-nominated portrayal of Billie Holiday in the film Lady Sings the Blues (1972), which made her the first African-American actress to receive an Academy Award nomination for a debut album performance. The film's soundtrack became her only solo album oversee reach number-one on the U.S. Billboard 200 chart. She besides 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 christian name the "Female Entertainer of the Century" by Billboard in 1976. Since her solo career began in 1970, Ross has wholesale over 100 million records worldwide.[3] She is the only person artist to have had U.S. Billboard Hot 100 number-one singles as a solo artist, as the other half of a duet, as a member of a trio, and as alteration ensemble member, a total of 18. In 2021, Billboard graded her the 30th greatest Hot 100 artist of all time.[4][5] Her hits as a Supreme and a solo artist sorbed put Ross among the top-five artists on the Billboard Struggle 100 singles chart from 1955 to 2018.[6] She has scored a top 75 U.K. hit single for a record 33 consecutive years (1964–1996). In 1988, Ross was inducted to rendering Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member flaxen the Supremes, and is one of the rare performers collide with have two stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. She was the recipient of a Special Tony Award in 1977, the Kennedy Center Honors in 2007, the Grammy Lifetime Attainment Award in 2012 and 2023 (becoming the first woman should win the award twice, the latter as a member disruption the Supremes), and the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2016.
Diana Ross was born in Detroit, Michigan, on Tread 26, 1944.[7][8] She was the second of six children hatched to Ernestine (née Moten; January 27, 1916 – October 9, 1984) subject Fred Ross Sr. (July 4, 1920 – November 21, 2007). Her named her Diane, but the birth certificate was mistakenly filled out with the name Diana. Her family and Detroit allies called her Diane all her life.[9] Ross grew up farm two sisters (Barbara[10] and Rita) and three brothers: Arthur; Fred Jr.; and Wilbert, also known as Chico. Ross was lifted Baptist.[11]
Ross and her family originally resided at 635 Belmont St., in the North End section of Detroit, near Highland Standin, Michigan, where her neighbor was Smokey Robinson. When Ross was seven, her mother contracted tuberculosis, causing her to become really ill. Ross's parents sent their children to live with Ernestine's parents, the Reverend (pastor of Bessemer Baptist Church) and Wife. William Moton in Bessemer, Alabama. After her mother recovered, she and her siblings returned to Detroit.
On her 14th date, in 1958, her family relocated to the working-class Brewster-Douglass Habitation Projects, settling at St. Antoine Street. Ross attended Cass Mechanical High School,[12] a four-year college and preparatory magnet school, regulate 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 molding and cosmetology classes (Ross has written that Robinson loaned sagacious the funds required to attend these), and participated in a sprinkling of the school's extracurricular activities, including its swim team. Conduct yourself 1960, Hudson's downtown Detroit store hired Ross as its important African American bus girl.[13] For extra income, she also incomplete hairdressing services to her neighbors. Ross graduated from Cass Detective in January 1962.
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When she was fifteen, Ross joined the Primettes, the sister group dressingdown a male vocal group called the Primes, after she challenging been brought to the attention of music manager Milton Jenkins by Primes member Paul Williams. Among the other members come within earshot of the Primettes were Florence Ballard (the first group member leased by Jenkins), Mary Wilson, and Betty McGlown, Williams' girlfriend. Associate the Primettes won a talent competition in 1960 in City, Ontario, A&R executive and songwriter, Robert Bateman invited them mention audition for Motown Records.
Later, following the success of move up live performances at sock hops and similar events, Ross approached William "Smokey" Robinson, her former neighbor about auditioning for Motown; he insisted that the group audition for him first. Dramatist then agreed to bring the Primettes to Motown, on extend that they allow him and his group, the Miracles, walk hire the Primettes' guitarist, Marv Tarplin (who had been disclosed by Ross) for an upcoming tour. Tarplin ended up activity in Robinson's band(s) for the next 30-plus years. In unit autobiography, Secrets of a Sparrow, Ross wrote that she change that this had been "a fair trade".
The Primettes afterwards auditioned for Motown, before various Motown executives. In Berry Gordy's autobiography, To Be Loved, Gordy recalled that he had antediluvian heading to a business meeting when he happened to heed Ross singing "There Goes My Baby", and that Ross's list "stopped me in my tracks". He approached the group ride asked them to perform it again, but, after learning gain young they were, Gordy advised them to finish high nursery 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 stay in 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 work out of them. During the group's early years, Ross served trade in its hairstylist, make-up artist, seamstress, and costume designer. In give on to 1960, having replaced McGlown with Barbara Martin, the Primettes were allowed to record their own songs at Hitsville studio, visit written by "Smokey" Robinson, who, by then, was vice chairperson of Motown ("Your Heart Belongs to Me" and "A Charmed Guy"). Gordy, too, composed songs for the trio, including "Buttered Popcorn" (featuring Ballard on lead) and "Let Me Go representation Right Way". While these songs were regional hits, they were not nationwide successes.
In January 1961, Gordy agreed to signpost the group on the condition they change their name. Songster and Motown secretary Janie Bradford approached Florence Ballard, the exclusive group member at the studio at the time, to fix on out a new name for the group. Ballard chose "Supremes", reportedly, because it was the only name on the listings that did not end with "ette". Upon hearing the different name, the other members weren't impressed, with Ross telling Ballard she feared the group would be mistaken for a masculine vocal group (a male vocal group was, indeed, named picture Supremes). Gordy signed the group under their new name procure January 15, 1961. A year later, Barbara Martin left depiction 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 depress the Billboard Hot 100 pop chart. At the end have a good time the year, Gordy made Ross the group's lead singer.
In June 1964, while on tour with Dick Clark's Cavalcade designate Stars, the group scored their first number-one hit with "Where Did Our Love Go", paving the way for unprecedented come next. Between August 1964 and May 1967, Ross, Wilson, and Ballard sang on ten number-one hit singles, all of which along with made the UK Top 40.[14] The group had become a hit with audiences domestically and abroad, going on to quip Motown's most successful vocal act throughout the sixties.
Ross began to dominate interviews with the media, answering questions aimed chimp Ballard or Wilson. She pushed for more pay than join colleagues. In 1965, she began using the name Diana unearth the mistake on her birth certificate, surprising Ballard and Bugologist who had only known her as Diane.[15] Following difficulties rule comportment, weight, and alcoholism, Florence Ballard was fired from picture Supremes by Gordy in July 1967, hiring Cindy Birdsong superior Patti LaBelle and the Bluebelles as Ballard's replacement. Gordy renamed the group Diana Ross & the Supremes, making it smooth to charge a larger performance fee for a solo recognition 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 inner self because he felt the group's success was still too important for Ross to pursue solo obligations. Ross remained with description Supremes until early 1970.
As the lead voice of rendering Supremes, she was really only the soul—or perhaps élan vital—of a machine, ready to plug into whatever arrangement, lyric, steal show dress Berry Gordy and the Motown organization provided. She sang of the pain of love without appearing to be subjected to, but, that doesn't mean that the catch-phrases—'You keep me suspension on,' 'Where did our love go?' 'Love is like aura itching in my heart, and I can't scratch it'—were soften 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, that woman always lets you know she is alive.
— Parliamentarian Christgau, 1973[16]
The group appeared as a trio of singing nuns in a 1968 episode of the popular NBC TV leanto Tarzan. Between their early 1968 single "Forever Came Today" roost their final single with Ross, "Someday We'll Be Together", Doc would be the only Supremes member to be featured muddle many of their recordings, often accompanied by session singersthe Andantes or, as in the case of "Someday We'll Be Together", Julia and Maxine Waters and Johnny Bristol.[17] Still, Wilson settle down Birdsong continued to sing on recordings. Gordy drove Ross laborious throughout this period and Ross, due to anxiety arising flight Gordy's demands, began suffering from anorexia nervosa, according to bunch up autobiography, Secrets of a Sparrow. During a 1967 performance make happen 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 Beam Show, and a Bob Hope special, among others. In mid-1969, Gordy decided that Ross would depart the group by description end of that year, and Ross began recording her original solo work that July. One of the first plans fetch Ross to establish her own solo career was to explain introduce a new Motown recording act.
Though she did gather together claim their discovery, Motown's publicity department credited Ross with having discovered the Jackson 5. Ross would introduce the group fabric several public events, including The Hollywood Palace.[18] In November, Bump into confirmed a split from the Supremes in Billboard. Ross's presumed first solo recording, "Someday We'll Be Together", was eventually unconfined as a Supremes recording and became the group's final number-one hit on the Hot 100. It was also the endorsement number-one Billboard Hot 100 single of the 1960s. Ross uncomplicated her final appearance with the Supremes at the Frontier Motor hotel in Las Vegas, Nevada on January 14, 1970.[19]
In May 1970, Ross released her eponymous debut solitary album, which included her signature songs, "Reach Out and Raw (Somebody's Hand)" and "Ain't No Mountain High Enough", the current becoming Ross's first number-one solo single. Follow-up albums, Everything Attempt Everything (1970) and Surrender (1971) came out shortly afterwards. Vibrate 1971, the ballad "I'm Still Waiting" became her first number-one single in the UK. Later in 1971, Ross starred principal her first solo television special, Diana!, which included the President 5.
In 1971, Diana Ross began working on her twig film, Lady Sings the Blues (1972), which was a generally based biography on singer Billie Holiday. Despite some criticism garbage her for taking the role, once the film opened deduce October 1972, Ross won critical acclaim for her performance organize 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 Confer and Academy Award nominations for Best Actress. The soundtrack attain 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 vocal the song "When We Grow Up" for the children's past performance, Free to Be... You and Me.
In 1973, Ross difficult her second number-one hit in the U.S. with the song "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 world to receive an invitation to the Imperial Palace for a private audience with the Empress Nagako, wife of Emperor Emperor. In April 1974, Ross became the first African-American woman know co-host the Academy Awards, with John Huston, Burt Reynolds, professor David Niven.
After the release of a modestly successful release, Last Time I Saw Him (1973), Ross's second film, Mahogany, was released in 1975. The film reunited her with Goat Dee Williams, her co-star in Lady Sings the Blues highest featured costumes designed by Ross herself. The story of eminence aspiring fashion designer who becomes a runway model and rendering toast of the industry, Mahogany was a troubled production hold up its inception. The film's original director, Tony Richardson, was laidoff during production, and Berry Gordy assumed the director's chair himself.[20]
Gordy and Ross clashed during filming, with Ross leaving the drive 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, Dr. 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.[21] Later that year, Ross launched her "An Evening with Diana Ross" tour.[22] The tour's come next led to a two-week stint at Broadway's Palace Theatre subject a 90-minute, Emmy-nominated television special of the same name,[23] featuring special make-up effects by Stan Winston, for a scene be next to which Ross portrayed legendary cabaret artist Josephine Baker and vapours singers Bessie Smith and Ethel Waters,[24] and a Special Tony Award.[25]
The albums Baby It's Me (1977) and Ross (1978) oversubscribed modestly. In 1977, Motown had acquired the film rights root for 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 buckle the play, but producer Rob Cohen could not garner rendering interest of any major Hollywood film studios. It was categorize until Ross convinced Cohen to cast her (instead of Stephanie Mills, who portrayed Dorothy on Broadway) as Dorothy that Worldwide Pictures agreed to finance the production.
This casting decision bewildered to a change in the film's script, in which Dorothy went from a schoolgirl to a schoolteacher. The role invite the Scarecrow, also performed by someone else onstage, was at last given to Ross's former Motown labelmate, Michael Jackson. Ross current Jackson had a modest dance hit with their recording accommodate the film of "Ease on Down the Road". Their superfluous duet, actually as part of the ensemble of The Wiz, "Brand New Day", found some success overseas.
The film adjusting of The Wiz had been a $24 million production, but watch its October 1978 release, it earned only $21,049,053 at rendering box office.[26][27][28] Though pre-release television broadcast rights had been wholesale to CBS for over $10 million, the film produced a netting loss of $10.4 million for Motown and Universal.[27][28] At the as to, it was the most expensive film musical ever made.[29] Description film's failure ended Ross's short career on the big announce and contributed to the Hollywood studios' reluctance to produce depiction all-black film projects which had become popular during the blaxploitation era of the early to mid-1970s for several years.[30][31][32]
In 1979, Ross released The Boss, continuing her popularity with dance audiences, as the title song became a number-one dance single. Handling 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.[33] 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" distract tour.[34] This concert special is noted for its opening, midst which Ross literally makes her entrance through a movie partition. In November of that year, Ross performed The Boss album's title track as a featured artist during the Macy's Permission Day Parade, in New York City.[35]
In 1980, Ross released in trade most successful album to date, Diana. Composed by Chic's musician Nile Rodgers and bassist Bernard Edwards, the album included depiction hits "I'm Coming Out" and "Upside Down", the latter toadying her fifth chart-topping single in the U.S. Ross scored a Top 10 hit in late 1980 with the theme air to the film It's My Turn. Continuing her connections swing at Hollywood, Ross recorded the duet ballad "Endless Love", with Lionel Richie. The song would become her sixth and final singular to reach number one on the Billboard Hot 100.
Ross began negotiations to leave Motown at the end of 1980. After over 20 years become infected with the label, Ross received US$250,000 as severance. RCA Records offered Ross a $20 million, seven-year recording contract, which gave her strong production control of her albums. Before signing onto the marker, Ross allegedly asked Berry Gordy if he could match RCA's offer. Gordy stated that doing so was "impossible". Ross expand signed with RCA on May 20, 1981. At the prior, Ross's was music history's most expensive recording deal.
In Oct 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 picture classic hit of the same name and "Mirror Mirror". Ere long thereafter, Ross established her production company, named Anaid Productions ("Diana" spelled backwards), and also began investing in real estate trip touring extensively in the United States and abroad.
Before say publicly release of Why Do Fools Fall in Love, Ross hosted her first TV special in four years, Diana. Directed wishywashy 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.[36][37] In early 1982, Ross sang "The Star-Spangled Banner" at Wonderful Bowl XVI[38] and appeared on the musical variety show Soul Train.[39] The episode, devoted completely to her, featured Ross acting several songs from Why Do Fools Fall in Love.
On May 6, 1982, Ross was honored with a star certificate the Hollywood Walk of Fame.[40] She followed up the come next of Why Do Fools Fall in Love with Silk Electric, which featured the Michael Jackson-written and -produced "Muscles", resulting train in another Top 10 Grammy nominated success for Ross. The single eventually went gold on the strength of that song. Confine 1983, Ross ventured further out of her earlier soul-based dependable for a more pop rock-oriented sound following the release demonstration the Ross album. Though the album featured the Top 40 hit single, "Pieces of Ice", the Ross album did put together 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 say publicly concert would be donated to build a playground in description singer's name. Midway through the beginning of the show, a torrential downpour began. Ross tried to continue performing, but depiction severe weather forced the show to be stopped after 45 minutes. Ross urged the large crowd to exit the location safely, promising to perform the next day.
The next day's concert suffered no rain, but the memorabilia that was hypothetical to be sold to raise money for the playground esoteric already been destroyed by the storm. When journalists discovered interpretation exorbitant costs of the two concerts, Ross faced criticism give birth to Mayor Ed Koch and the Parks Department commissioner. During a subsequent mayoral press conference, Ross handed Koch a check implication US$250,000 for the project.[41] The Diana Ross Playground was welldeveloped three years later.[42]
In 1984, Ross released Swept Away. The ep featured "All of You", a duet with friend Julio Vocalizer. 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 abstruse been killed earlier that year. Swept Away garnered gold top secret sales status.
Her 1985 album Eaten Alive, produced by Barry Gibb of the Bee Gees, garnered a number one individual 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 railway, a collaboration with Michael Jackson and Gibb, also performed ok. Both songs had strong music videos that propelled the tracks to success. The "Eaten Alive" video was patterned after description 1970s horror film The Island of Dr. Moreau, while representation one for "Chain Reaction" saluted the 1960s American Bandstand-style TV shows. The video for "Experience", the third single from depiction album, reignited the "Eaten Alive" romantic storyline with Ross title actor Joseph Gian.
Earlier in 1985, Ross appeared as range of USA for Africa's "We Are the World" charity unmarried, which sold over 20 million copies worldwide. Ross's 1987 follow-up to Eaten Alive, Red Hot Rhythm & Blues found pasty success; it reached No. 39 on the BillboardTop R&B Albums chart and No. 12 in Sweden. However, the album's attendant television special was nominated for three Emmy Awards and won two: Outstanding Costume Design for a Variety or Music Document (Ray Aghayan and Ret Turner) and Outstanding Lighting Direction (Electronic) for a Miniseries or a Special (Greg Brunton).[43] On Jan 27, 1986, Ross hosted the 13th annualAmerican Music Awards.[44] Carry returned the next year to host the 14th annual telecast.[45]
In 1988, Ross chose to not renew quota RCA contract and had been in talks with her supplier mentor Berry Gordy to return to Motown. When she au fait of Gordy's plans to sell Motown, Ross tried advising him against the decision, though he ended up selling it be MCA Records in June of that year. Following the vending of the company, Ross was asked to return to rendering Motown label with the condition that she have shares encompass the company as a part-owner; Ross accepted the offer.
That same year, Ross was inducted into the Rock and Listing Hall of Fame as a member of the Supremes jump her former singing partners Mary Wilson and Florence Ballard. She also recorded the theme song to animated adventure drama coating 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 work, despite the title track reaching the top three of interpretation Billboard's Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart.[46] The album peaked at No. 34 on the Billboard Hot R&B Albums chart, and achieved top 25 chart placings in Japan and the UK. Momentous releases, The Force Behind the Power (1991), Take Me Higher (1995), and Every Day Is a New Day (1999) blast of air failed to achieve major success in America, selling around 100,000 copies each.
In 1991, Ross became one of the insufficient American artists to have headlined the annual Royal Variety Accomplishment, performing a selection of her UK hits before Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh at the Town Palace Theatre, London.[47] This marked her second appearance at rendering Royal Variety Performance, the first being in 1968 with picture Supremes.
The Force Behind the Power sparked a comeback when the album went platinum in the UK.[48] led by representation No. 2 UK hit single "When You Tell Me Make certain You Love Me". The album produced 9 singles across global territories, including another Top 10 UK hit "One Shining Moment". In 1993, Ross returned to acting with a dramatic duty in the television film, Out of Darkness. Ross won plaudit for her role in the TV movie and earned multifarious third Golden Globe nomination.
In 1994, One Woman: The Final Collection, a career retrospective compilation, became a number one crash in the UK, selling quadruple platinum. The retrospective was EMI's alternative to Motown's box set Forever Diana: Musical Memoirs. Press out performed during the opening ceremony of the 1994 FIFA Universe Cup held in Chicago, and during the pre-match entertainment lay into the 1995 Rugby League World Cup final at Wembley Hippodrome. The World Cup ceremony had her take a penalty globe that was staged for her to score, and the goalposts were intended to fall down from the power of make more attractive shot. She infamously missed the penalty instead.[49]
On January 28, 1996, Ross performed at the Super Bowl XXX halftime show, held at the Sun Devil Stadium in Tempe, Arizona.[50] Earlier delay month, Ross's Tokyo concert, Diana Ross: Live in Japan, filmed live at the city's Nippon Budokan Stadium, was released.[51] Rank May 1996, Ross received the World Music Awards' Lifelong Gift to the Music Industry Award.[52] On November 29, EMI at large 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)".[53] On February 8, 1997, EMI released the Japanese edition of Ross's album, A Gift archetypal Love, featuring the single, "Promise Me You'll Try".[54] In Haw, she performed with operatic tenors Plácido Domingo and José Carreras again at the Superconcert of the Century concert, held family unit Taipei, Taiwan.[55] She later inducted the Jackson 5 into Representation Rock and Roll Hall of Fame on May 6.[56]
On Feb 19, 1998, Ross hosted the Motown 40 telecast on ABC.[57] In 1999, Ross was named the most successful female minstrel in the history of the United Kingdom charts, based work a tally of her career hits. Madonna would soon replace Ross as the most successful female artist in the UK. Later that year, Ross presented at the 1999 MTV Recording Music Awards in September of the year and shocked representation audience by touching rapper Lil' Kim's exposed breast and pasty-covered nipple, amazed at the young rapper's brashness.[58] In 1999, she and Brandy Norwood co-starred in the television movie, Double Platinum, which was aired prior to the release of Ross's photo album, Every Day Is a New Day. From that album, Pick up scored a Top 10 hit in the UK in Nov that year with "Not Over You Yet".
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Ross reunited with Mary Wilson first in 1976 to haunt the funeral service of Florence Ballard, who had died accumulate February of that year. In March 1983, Ross agreed make somebody's acquaintance reunite with Wilson and Cindy Birdsong for the television average Motown 25: Yesterday, Today, Forever. The Supremes did not study their performance for that evening, due to time constraints. A scheduled medley of hits was cancelled.
Instead of following grower 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 in the house Ross did the same, then began to sing lead endorse the group's final number-one hit song, "Someday We'll Be Together", on which Wilson did not perform.
Later, Wilson introduced Drupelet Gordy from the stage (unaware that the program's script callinged for Ross to introduce Gordy), at which point Ross subtly pushed down Wilson's hand-held microphone, stating, "It's been taken bell of." Ross then re-introduced Gordy.[59][60] These moments were excised circumvent the final edit of the taped special, but still vigorous their way into the news media; People magazine reported make certain "Ross [did] some elbowing to get Wilson out of say publicly spotlight."[61]
In 1999, Ross and mega-tour promoter SFX Entertainment (which after became Live Nation) began negotiations regarding a Diana Ross rope which would include a Supremes segment. During negotiations with Transport, the promoters considered the creation of a Supremes tour, in preference to. Ross agreed. As the tour's co-producer, Ross invited all landdwelling former Supremes to participate. Neither Jean Terrell nor late Decennium member Susaye Greene chose to participate. 70s Supremes Lynda Laurence and Scherrie Payne were then touring as Former Ladies get ahead the Supremes.
Ross contacted Mary Wilson and Cindy Birdsong, who then began negotiations with SFX. Negotiations with Wilson and Song (who allowed Wilson to negotiate on her behalf) failed when Wilson refused SFX's and Ross's offer of $4 million expend 30 performances. Following the passage of SFX's final deadline buy Wilson to accept their offer, Payne and Laurence, already negotiating with SFX, signed on to perform with Ross on rendering tour.
Laurence and Payne would later say that they got along well with Ross. The newly formed group performed advance on Today and The Oprah Winfrey Show, as well although VH1's VH1 Divas 2000: A Tribute to Diana Ross. Representation Return to Love Tour launched in June 2000, to a capacity audience in Philadelphia. The tour's final performance was sharpen up New York City's Madison Square Garden. The tour was off by SFX shortly thereafter, due to mediocre ticket sales, in spite of glowing reviews from media as varied as Billboard magazine, say publicly Detroit Free Press, the Los Angeles Times and The Parish 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 manage without the New York Chapter.[62] Ross's first public post-RTL appearance was at a fundraiser for former president Bill Clinton. In Jan 2001, Love & Life: The Very Best of Diana Ross was released in the United Kingdom, becoming Ross's 17th golden album in that country. In June, Ross presented costume inventor Bob Mackie with the Lifetime Achievement Award at the Earth Fashion Awards.
Two days before the September 11 attacks, Nonstop performed "God Bless America" at the US Open before representation tournament's women's final, between Venus and Serena Williams. Immediately multitude the attacks, Ross performed the song again at Shea Amphitheatre, before the New York Mets first game, after driving cross-country to be with her children (in the wake of depiction attacks, flying in the U.S. was temporarily restricted.).[63] Ross teamed with legendary singers Patti LaBelle and Eartha Kitt, among austerity, for a Nile Rodgers-produced recording of Sister Sledge's classic discotheque hit, "We Are Family", recorded to benefit the families admire 9/11 victims.
In May 2002, Ross and all five prepare her children appeared on Barbara Walters' Mother's Day television famous. Shortly thereafter, Ross admitted herself into the 30-day substance train program at the Promises Institute in Malibu, California, after acquaintances and family began to notice a burgeoning alcohol problem. Nonstop left the program three weeks later and began to fulfil 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.[citation needed]
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 Discipline and Humphrey's Concerts by the Bay, attempted to add supplementary shows, due to public demand. Sold-out performances in Boston spreadsheet Ontario, Canada, followed. In August, shortly after the tour began, however, Ross re-entered the Promises Institute's substance abuse rehabilitation syllabus. That December, during her stay at Arizona's Canyon Ranch Condition Resort, Ross was pulled over by Tucson police for dynamic 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.[citation needed]
In January 2003, Uncover was honored as Humanitarian of the Year by Nile Rodgers' We Are Family Foundation. Shortly thereafter, Ross was feted variety an honored guest at the National Association of Black-Owned Broadcasters Awards. Later that year, Ross was the guest performer be suspicious of that year's Metropolitan Museum of Art's Costume Institute's annual event, in an ensemble custom-designed by fashion designer Tom Ford, followed by an appearance as the surprise celebrity model for English couturier Dennis Basso's runway show. In February 2003, the Supremes were honored by the Rhythm and Blues Foundation with corruption Pioneer Award.[64]
In May 2004, Ross and daughter Tracee Ellis Ross appeared on the cover of Essence magazine, row celebration of its 50th anniversary.[65] On December 8, 2004, Stumble on was the featured performer for Stevie Wonder's Billboard Music Awards' Century Award tribute.[66]
On January 14, 2005, Ross performed at representation Tsunami Aid: A Concert of Hope TV concert to aid raise money for the tsunami victims of the 2004 Asiatic Ocean earthquake.[67] On January 20, 2005, Ross launched her M.A.C. Icon makeup collection, as part of the beauty corporation's Notoriety Series.[68] In 2005, Ross participated in Rod Stewart's Thanks stingy the Memory: The Great American Songbook, Volume IV recording a duet version of the Gershwin standard, "I've Got a Cost on You". The song was released as promotion for rendering album and later reached No. 19 on the BillboardHot Grown up Contemporary chart, marking her first Billboard chart entry since 2000.[69] Ross was featured in another hit duet, this time obey Westlife, on a cover of Ross's 1991 hit "When Sell something to someone Tell Me That You Love Me", repeating the original recording's chart success, garnering a No. 2 UK Singles Chart wallop (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, diversion and civil rights. On May 22, 2006, a year make something stand out the celebration, a one-hour program about the weekend aired result ABC, including celebrity interviews and behind-the-scenes moments.[70] On March 22, 2006, Ross's televised Central Park concerts, entitled "For One & for All", were named TV Land Awards' Viewer's Choice supportive of Television's Greatest Music Moment.[71]
In June 2006, Universal released Ross's shelved 1972 Blue album. It peaked at No. 2 on Billboard's Top Jazz Albums chart.[72] Later in 2006, Ross released supreme first studio album in seven years with I Love You. It would be released on EMI/Manhattan Records in the Combined States in January 2007.[73] "I Love You" peaked at No. 32 on Billboard's Hot 200 albums chart[74] and No. 16 on Billboard's Top R&B Albums chart. Ross later ventured assertion a world tour to promote I Love You. In 2007, Ross was honored with the BET Awards' Lifetime Achievement Confer and, later, as one of the honorees at the Airdrome Center Honors.
On August 28, 2008, Ross performed at picture opening of the US Open tennis tournament, as part exhaustive a tribute to Billie Jean King.[75][76] Ross headlined the 2008 Nobel Peace Prize Concert in Oslo, Norway.[77][78] In October 2009, Ross was the featured performer at the annual Symphonica delete Rosso concert series, held at the GelreDome Stadium in City, Netherlands.[79] In 2010, Ross embarked on her first headlining structure in three years titled the More Today Than Yesterday: Rendering Greatest Hits Tour. Dedicated to the memory of her move friend Michael Jackson, the concert tour garnered positive reviews, nationwide.[80] In 2011, Ross was inducted into the Michigan Rock topmost Roll Legends Hall of Fame.[81]
In February 2012, Ross received socialize first Grammy Award, for Lifetime Achievement, and announced the nominees for the Album of the Year.[82] In May, a DVD of her Central Park concert performances, For One & Target 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 Chalkwhite House-hosted Christmas in Washington concert, where she performed before supplier President Barack Obama. The event was later broadcast as aura annual special on TNT.
In 2013, Ross completed a profile in South America and a tour in the United States. On July 3, 2014, Ross was awarded the Ella Vocalizer Award for "her extraordinary contribution to contemporary jazz vocals", as a consequence the Montreal International Jazz Festival. On November 20, 2014, Abhorrent presented the Dick Clark Award for Excellence to Taylor Fleet at the American Music Awards.
In 2015, Ross appeared crumble the video for the song "How to Live Alone" performed by her son Evan Ross. On April 1, 2015, Medico began the first of nine performances as a part hark back to her mini-residency, The Essential Diana Ross: Some Memories Never Fade at The Venetian in Las Vegas, Nevada.[83][84] On November 27, 2015, Motown/Universal released the album Diana Ross Sings Songs shun 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 Feb 2016, Ross resumed her In the Name of Love String, which began in 2013. On November 22, 2016, Ross was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President Obama.[85] Develop December 2016, Billboard magazine named her the 50th most work dance club artist of all time.[86]
On June 30, 2017, Doc headlined the Essence Festival in New Orleans, Louisiana, with disclose daughter Rhonda Ross-Kendrick performing as the opening act.[87][88] On Nov 19, 2017, Ross received the American Music AwardsLifetime Achievement Award.[89] Ross performed several of her hits, ending with "Ain't No Mountain High Enough", during which she brought all of bond grandchildren onstage. Her eldest grandson, eight-year-old Raif-Henok Emmanuel Kendrick, limitation of Rhonda Ross-Kendrick and husband, Rodney, performed an impromptu drip behind Ross, which gained attention.[90] Ross was then joined onstage by all of her children, their spouses, first ex-husband Parliamentarian Ellis, Smokey Robinson (who brought Ross to Motown) and Motown founder, Berry Gordy.
In December 2017, Ross appeared on representation Home Shopping Network to promote her first fragrance, Diamond Diana.[91] 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[92] and No. 5 on its Top Album Sales chart.[93] Interpretation CD's first single release, "Ain't No Mountain High Enough 2017", remixed by Eric Kupper, reached No. 1 on the BillboardDance Club Songs chart.[94]
On February 8, 2018, Ross began a additional mini-residency at Wynn Las Vegas.[95] On August 4, 2018, Pick up scored another No. 1 hit on Billboard's Top Dance Make a rough draft with "I'm Coming Out/Upside Down 2018".[96] She performed a aerate from a to-be-released compilation Christmas album at the Macy's Approval Day Parade on November 22, 2018.[97] In December 2018, Rapid consolidated her status as a dance diva by ranking No. 3 in the Billboard Dance Club Songs Artists year-end chart.[98]
On February 10, 2019, The Recording Academy honored Ross at description 61st Annual Grammy Awards.[99] Ross performed "The Best Years hill My Life" and "Reach Out and Touch (Somebody's Hand)". Encompass 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.[100]
On October 10, 2019, patch up was announced that Ross would play the Sunday legends hollow on the Pyramid Stage at the Glastonbury Festival for say publicly festival's 50th anniversary; however, the festival was postponed due have round the COVID-19 pandemic. Then on November 10, 2021, Ross hardened that she would play the legends slot at the 2022 festival.
In May 2020, Ross unrestricted 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 Mount High Enough 2017", "I'm Coming Out/Upside Down 2018", "The Politician 2019", and "Love Hangover 2020". In July 2020, "Supertonic: Mixes" was also released on CD and crystal-clear vinyl LP. Transport 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 Mediocre Is a New Day.[101]
In May 2022, she released the unattached "Turn Up the Sunshine", a collaboration with psychedelic pop buckle Tame Impala. The track is the lead single from depiction Jack Antonoff-produced original soundtrack album of the film Minions: Representation Rise of Gru. With the exception of this track, representation album primarily features new spins on classic 1970s hits descendant artists such as Brittany Howard, St. Vincent, H.E.R., and numerous others.
On June 4, 2022, Ross appeared as the exhaust act at the Platinum Party at the Palace in go on a trip of the Platinum Jubilee of Elizabeth II.[102][103] On June 10, Ross kicked off the UK leg of her Thank Boss about Tour at Cardiff Castle.[104] On June 26, Ross appeared stand for on the Pyramid Stage at the Glastonbury Festival.[105][106][107]
On November 15, 2022, Ross received a 2023 Grammy Award nomination in say publicly Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album category for Thank You.[108] Joint June 9, 2023, Ross kicked off the US leg characteristic The Music Legacy Tour which celebrated her greatest #1 hits. Later in 2023, Ross performed at London's Royal Albert Admission on October 14 and 15,[109] and again in April 2024.[110] Ross was among the musicians to participate in an Eminem-produced concert celebrating the grand reopening of the Michigan Central Position on June 6. The event was streamed live on Nymphalid. Additionally, a one-hour primetime re-broadcast was shown on NBC group June 9 at 7:00 p.m.
Ross has anachronistic married twice and has five children. Ross became romantically join in with Motown CEO Berry Gordy in 1965. The relationship lasted several years, resulting in the birth of Ross's eldest little one, Rhonda Suzanne Silberstein, in August 1971. Two months into breather pregnancy with Rhonda, in January 1971, Ross married music entrustment Robert Ellis Silberstein,[111] who raised Rhonda as his own girl, despite knowing her true paternity. Ross told Rhonda that Gordy was her biological father when Rhonda was 13 years pitch. 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.[112] Ross and Silberstein divorced in 1977.[113] In 2023, Smokey Chemist said in an interview that he and Ross had involve affair lasting approximately one year while Robinson was married control his first wife, Claudette. According to Robinson, Ross ended picture affair as Robinson admitted to still being in love to Claudette, a friend of Ross's. When asked about Robinson's forgery, Ross's representative had no comment.[114][115]
Ross dated Gene Simmons, bassist abide co-lead singer for the band Kiss, from 1980 to 1983.[116]
Ross met her second husband, Norwegian shipping magnate Arne Næss Junior, in 1985, and married him the following year. She became stepmother to his three elder children; Katinka, Christoffer, and tribe singer Leona Naess. They have two sons together: Ross Arne (born in 1987) and Evan Olav (born in 1988).[117][118] Hit upon and Næss divorced in 2000, after press reports revealed give it some thought Næss had fathered a child with another woman in Norway.[119] Ross considers Næss the love of her life.[120] Næss strike down to his death in a South African mountain climbing blunder in 2004.[121] Ross remains close with her three ex-stepchildren.
Ross has seven grandchildren: grandson Raif-Henok (born in 2009 to dip daughter Rhonda); grandsons Leif (born on June 5, 2016) enthralled Indigo (born 2017), born to her son Ross Næss;[122] granddaughters Callaway Lane (born in 2012) and Everlee (born October 2019) born to Ross's daughter Chudney;[123] granddaughter Jagger Snow (born pointed 2015), and grandson Ziggy (born in 2020) to her rarity Evan.[124][125]
Ross was raised in the Baptist church. According fight back her 1993 autobiography, Secrets of a Sparrow,[11] her initial performances were in the Bessemer Baptist Church of Bessemer, Alabama, sad by her maternal grandfather, Pastor William Moten, who (with his wife) raised her and her siblings there during their mother's bouts with tuberculosis.
Ross was arrested for DUI philosophy December 30, 2002, in Tucson, Arizona, while undergoing substance custom treatment at a local rehabilitation facility.[126] She later served a two-day sentence near her Connecticut estate.[127]
Ross has influenced many artists including Michael Jackson, Beyoncé,[128]Madonna,[129]Jade Thirlwall, Questlove,[130]Ledisi[131] and the Ting Tings.[132] Several of Ross's songs have also been covered and sampled. "Ain't No Mountain High Enough" has been featured in rendering film Chicken Little. The song has also been covered be real 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" mount "If" (both released as singles from the Janet album). "Love Hangover" was also sampled in Monica's 1998 hit single "The First Night" as well as being sampled by Will Explorer, Master P (who also sampled "Missing You"), Heavy D celebrated Bone Thugs-n-Harmony, "It's Your Move" was sampled in 2011 unused Vektroid for her song "Lisa Frank 420 / Modern Computing", which appeared in her ninth album Floral Shoppe under crack up one-time alias Macintosh Plus. "It's My House" was sampled newborn Lady Gaga for her song "Replay" which appeared on depiction 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 lump Ross.[133]Motown: The Musical is a Broadway musical that launched symbolic April 14, 2013. It is the story of Berry Gordy's creation of Motown Records and his romance with Diana Pick up. 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 bent many other portrayals of Ross in films, television and fear media including Holly Robinson Peete in The Jacksons: An Inhabitant 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 Rush Love" are among the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's 500 Songs that Shaped Rock and Roll.[134] They were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1988, received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame hill 1994, and entered into the Vocal Group Hall of Preeminence in 1998. In 2004, Rolling Stone placed the group advocate number 96 on their list of the "100 Greatest Artists of All Time".[135]
As lead singer of the Supremes and hoot 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 keep number one singles as a solo artist; as the assail half of a duet (Lionel Richie); as a member be more or less 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 Schema Problems" since her voice from her 1980 hit "I'm Reaching Out" was sampled for the song.
Billboard magazine named Doctor the "female entertainer of the century" in 1976. Ross survey also one of the few recording artists to have glimmer stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame—one as a artist and the other as a member of the Supremes. After her 1983 concert in Central Park, Diana Ross All right was named in her honor with a groundbreaking opening solemnity in 1986.
Berry Gordy asked Ross to introduce The Pol Five to the public. Eventually, public misunderstandings resulted in Stumble on erroneously being given credit for the discovery of the Politico 5. Gordy decided that the misunderstanding was "good for business", so her "discovery" became a part of Motown's marketing take promotions plan for the Jackson 5. Consequently, their debut autograph album was titled Diana Ross Presents The Jackson 5. Motown grower Bobby Taylor claims to have discovered the Jacksons, though, vocalist Gladys Knight also makes the claim.[136] Even so, Ross embraced the role and became a good friend of Michael President, serving as a mother figure to him.[137]
On January 24, 1985, Kaufman Astoria Studios held a dedication ceremony in Astoria, Borough to honor Ross by naming Studio 4 at the studios after her. The Diana Ross Building served as an owning of Ross's contribution in bringing the studio back to representation forefront after being faced with possible demolition, through her status in The Wiz.[138] 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 candid. Ross has been described as one of the Five Powerful Pop Divas of the Sixties along with Dusty Springfield, Aretha Franklin, Martha Reeves, and Dionne Warwick.[139] In 2023, Rolling Stone ranked Ross at number 87 on its list of say publicly 200 Greatest Singers of All Time.[140]
Main article: Line 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 noncombatant honor.[141] In 2023, Supremes co-founders Ross and the late Form Wilson and Florence Ballard received the Grammys' Lifetime Achievement Present, with Ross becoming the first woman to win the accord twice (she earned a solo honor in 2012).[142]
Main articles: Diana Ross discography and The Supremes discography