Diana Ross

Diana Ernestine Earle Ross born March 26, 1944 is an American singer, songwriter, actress and record producer. Born and raised in Detroit, she rose to fame as a founding member and lead singer of the vocal group The Supremes, which, during the 1960s, became Motowns most successful act and is to this day Americas most successful vocal group as well as one of the worlds bestselling girl groups of all time. As part of the Supremes, Ross most notably rivaled the career of The Beatles in worldwide popularity, and her success made it possible for future African American RampB and soul acts to find mainstream success. The group set a record scoring twelve numberone hit singles on the Billboard Hot 100 including the hits Where Did Our Love Go, Baby Love, Come See About Me, Stop In the Name of Love, You Cant Hurry Love, You Keep Me Hangin On, Love Child and Someday Well Be Together.

In 1988, Ross was inducted to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as member of the Supremes alongside Mary Wilson and Florence Ballard. She is the recipient of the Kennedy Center Honors in 2007. She is a 12time Grammy nominee, later becoming the recipient of her only Grammy Award to date by being honored the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award in 2012.Diana Ross was born at Hutzel Womens Hospital in Detroit on March 26, 1944. She was the second eldest child of Ernestine ne Moten January 27, 1916 October 9, 1984, a schoolteacher, and Fred Ross, Sr. July 4, 1920 November 21, 2007, a former Army soldier. Much has been made of whether her first name ends in an a or an e. According to Ross, her mother actually named her Diane but a clerical error resulted in her name being recorded as Diana on her birth certificate. Although she was sometimes listed as Diana during the first Supremes records, she introduced herself as Diane until early in the groups heyday. Her friends still call her Diane. Rosss grandfather John E. Ross, a native of Gloucester County, Virginia, was born to Washington Ross and Virginia Baytop. Virginia Baytops mother Francis Frankey Baytop was a former slave who had become a midwife after the Civil War. ........

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