DIANA ROSS

Diana Ross is an American singer, actress, and record producer, born Diane Ernestine Ross on March 26, 1944, and raised in Detroit, Michigan. Diana Ross first came to prominence as lead singer of The Supremes, who became Motown’s most successful act during the 1960s, and the most successful all-female act in US chart history, with a then-record breaking twelve Number 1 singles on the Billboard chart. The Supremes also scored Motown’s first UK Number 1 in 1964 with Baby Love. Diana Ross left the group in 1969 to launch a solo career, issuing her self-titled debut album the following year, and built up a string of hits such as Ain’t No Mountain High Enough, I’m Still Waiting and Touch Me In The Morning. Ross launched an acting career in the early seventies with notable roles in Mahogany, The Wiz, earning an Academy Award nomination for her role in the Billie Holliday biopic Lady Sings The Blues. Diana Ross has worked with Marvin Gaye, Westlife, the Bee Gees (the UK Number 1 Chain Reaction in 1986), Chic, Michael Jackson (she’s basically responsible for spotting a young Jackson 5 and bringing them to the attention of Motown) and Lionel Richie, with whom she scored an international hit with the duet Endless Love in 1981. Diana Ross has not one, but two stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame and was named the top female entertainer of the century by Billboard for having more hits than any other female artist. In 2019, Diana's most streamed song was named as I'm Coming Out, the Nile Rodgers and Bernard Edwards-produced single from her 1980 Diana album. Image: Shutterstock