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  1. #1
    Sam Guest

    Diana Ross

    Diana Ross (born March 26, 1944) is an American singer and actress. During the 1960s, she helped shape the Motown sound as lead singer of The Supremes, before leaving the group for a solo career on January 14, 1970. Since the beginning of her career with The Supremes and as a solo artist, Ross has sold more than 100 million records.[1]
    During the 1970s and through the mid-1980s, Ross was among the most successful female artists, crossing over into film, television and Broadway. She received a Best Actress Academy Award nomination for her 1972 role as Billie Holiday in Lady Sings the Blues, for which she won a Golden Globe award. She won awards at the American Music Awards, garnered twelve Grammy Award nominations, and won a Tony Award for her one-woman show, An Evening with Diana Ross, in 1977.
    In 1976, Billboard magazine named her the "Female Entertainer of the Century." In 1993, the Guinness Book of World Records declared Diana Ross the most successful female music artist in history with a total of 18 American number-one singles: 12 as lead singer of The Supremes and six as a soloist. Ross was the first female solo artist to score six number-ones. This feat puts her in a tie for fifth place among solo female artists with the most number-ones on the Hot 100.[2] She is also one of the few recording artists to have two stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fameâ??one as a solo artist and the other as a member of The Supremes. In December 2007, she received a John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts Honors Award.
    Including her work with The Supremes, Ross has released 67 albums.
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    Early life and career

    Diana Ross, the daughter of a former United States Army soldier from Bluefield, West Virginia and a schoolteacher from Bessemer, Alabama, was born at Hutzel Women's Hospital[3] in Detroit, Michigan. After living at 635 Belmont Avenue in Detroit's North End for several years, Ross's family settled on St. Antoinne Street in the Brewster-Douglass housing projects on her fourteenth birthday in 1958. Ross aspired to be a fashion designer, and studied design and seamstress skills while attending Cass Technical High School in Downtown Detroit. She was subsequently voted Best Dressed Girl in her senior year. She graduated in 1962, one full semester earlier than her classmates.
    In 1959, Ross was brought to the attention of Milton Jenkins, the manager of the local doo-wop group The Primes, by Mary Wilson. Primes member Paul Williams convinced Jenkins to enlist Ross in the sister group The Primettes, which included Wilson, Florence Ballard and Betty McGlown. Ross, Wilson and Ballard each sang lead during live performances and, in 1960, signed with Lu Pine Records where the label issued the Ross-led single "Tears of Sorrow" backed with the Wilson-led "Pretty Baby".
    The Supremes (1959â??1970)

    Main article: The Supremes

    The Supremes in 1965. Left to right: Florence Ballard, Mary Wilson and Diana Ross.


    In 1961, having already replaced McGlown with Barbara Martin, the quartet auditioned for and eventually signed with Motown Records under their new moniker, The Supremes.
    Following Martin's exit in 1962, the group remained a trio. In 1963, Ross became the group's lead singer, as Berry Gordy felt the group could "cross over" to the pop charts with Ross' unique vocal quality. After The Suprem August 1964 and May 1967, Ross, Wilson and Ballard sang on ten number-one hit singles, all of which also made the United Kingdom Top 40.
    Following Florence Ballard's departure from the group in July 1967, Gordy chose Cindy Birdsong, a member of Patti LaBelle and the Bluebelles, as her replacement. Shortly thereafter, he changed the group's name to Diana Ross & the Supremes to build name recognition before the planned future departure of Ross as a solo performer.
    Recording a total of 12 number-one singles, The Supremes became the most successful American vocal group of the 1960s, and, after The Beatles, the second most successful group worldwide.

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    Sam Guest
    Leaving The Supremes

    Motown initially conceived of a solo career for Ross in 1966, but did not act on this until 1968. Television specials such as TCB (1968) and G.I.T. on Broadway (1969) were designed to spotlight Diana Ross as a star in her own right, and much of the later Ross-led Supremes material was recorded by Ross with session singers The Andantes, not Wilson and Birdsong, on backing vocals.
    By the summer of 1969, Ross began her first solo recordings. In November of the same year, three years after it was first rumored, Billboard magazine confirmed Ross's departure from the group to begin her solo career. That same year, Ross introduced Motown's newest act, The Jackson 5, to national audiences on the Hollywood Palace television variety program.
    Ross recorded her initial solo sessions with a number of producers, including Bones Howe and Johnny Bristol. Her first track with Bristol, "Someday We'll Be Together", was tagged as a potential solo single, but, it instead was issued as the final Diana Ross & the Supremes release. "Someday We'll Be Together" was the 12th and the final number-one hit for the Supremes and the last American number-one hit of the 1960s. Ross made her final appearance with the Supremes at the Frontier Hotel in Las Vegas
    Early solo career


    Ross's first solo LP, Diana Ross, featured her first solo number-one hit, "Ain't No Mountain High Enough".


    After a half-year of recording material with various producers, Ross settled with the production team of Nickolas Ashford and Valerie Simpson, the creative force behind Marvin Gaye's and Tammi Terrell's hit duets and Diana Ross & the Supremes' "Some Things You Never Get Used To". Ashford and Simpson helmed most of Ross's first album, Diana Ross, and continued to write and produce for her for the next decade.
    In May 1970, Diana Ross was released on Motown. The first single, the gospel-influenced "Reach Out and Touch (Somebody's Hand)", peaked at number 20 on the Billboard Hot 100. The album's second single, a fully rearranged cover of Gaye's and Terrell's 1967 hit, and another Ashford and Simpson composition, "Ain't No Mountain High Enough", was an international hit, and gave Ross her first number-1 pop single and gold record award as a solo artist. "Ain't No Mountain High Enough" received a Grammy nomination for Best Pop Vocal Performance, Female. by:TJS
    In 1971, Motown released Ross's second album Everything Is Everything, which produced Ross's first UK number-one solo single, "I'm Still Waiting". Several months later, Ross released Surrender, which included the top-20 pop hit, "Remember Me". That year, she hosted her first solo television special, Diana!, featuring guest appearances by The Jackson 5, Bill Cosby and Danny Thomas.
    By then, Motown Records had relocated to Hollywood. Berry Gordy had decided it was time the company ventured again into new territory, focusing much of his attention on developing a motion picture corporation, with Diana Ross as its first star.
    Lady Sings The Blues

    In late 1971, Motown announced that Diana Ross was going to portray jazz icon Billie Holiday in a Motown-produced film loosely based on Holiday's autobiography Lady Sings the Blues (1956) written by Holiday and William Dufty. Immediately, critics ridiculed Ross's casting in the role. Ross and Holiday were considered to be "miles apart" in vocal styling and appearance. Undaunted, Ross immersed herself in Holiday's music and life story. Ross actually knew little about Holiday and was not a big fan of jazz in general. Instead of imitating Holiday's voice, Ross focused on Holiday's vocal phrasing.
    Opening in October 1972, Lady Sings the Blues was a phenomenal success, and Ross's performance drew universally favorable reviews. The movie co-starred Brian's Song star Billy Dee Williams as Holiday's lover, Louis McKay. The cast also included comedian Richard Pryor as the "Piano Man". In 1973, Ross was nominated for both a Golden Globe Award and an Academy Award for "Best Actress". Winning a Golden Globe for Best Newcomer, Ross lost the Best Actress Oscar to her friend Liza Minnelli for her role in Cabaret. The soundtrack album for Lady Sings the Blues reached number one on the Billboard 200 for two weeks and shipped 300,000 copies during its first eight days of release. After several of the soundtrack's recording sessions, many of the musicians (some of whom had played with Billie Holiday) spontaneously erupted into applause, in praise of Ross's performances. The double-pocket custom label record is one of Ross's best-selling albums of all time, with total sales to date of nearly 2 million US units.

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    Sam Guest
    1980s and 1990s


    Why Do Fools Fall in Love was Ross's debut LP for Ross Records distributed by RCA Records.


    Diana Ross's RCA Records debut, Why Do Fools Fall in Love, was issued in October 1981. The album yielded Top 10 hits including the title track "Why Do Fools Fall in Love", a remake of the 1956 Frankie Lymon & the Teenagers classic of the same name, and the single "Mirror Mirror". A third single, "Work That Body", hit the Top Ten in the UK.
    In 1983, Ross reunited with former Supremes Mary Wilson and Cindy Birdsong for the television special Motown 25: Yesterday, Today, Forever. The three performed their 1969 number-one hit "Someday We'll Be Together", although alleged onstage altercations between Ross and Wilson became an issue during and after the taping of the special. A four-song Supremes set was planned but Ross, suffering from influenza, declined to rehearse with "The Girls" and stated that they would have to be happy just doing "Someday We'll Be Together". Before the special was taped later that evening, Wilson allegedly planned with Birdsong to take a step forward every time Ross did the same. This appeared to frustrate Ross, causing her to push Wilson's shoulder. Later, Wilson was not aware of the script set by producer Suzanne DePasse, in which Ross was to introduce Berry Gordy. Wilson took it upon herself to do so,[12] at which point Ross pushed down Wilson's hand-held microphone, stating "It's been taken care of." Ross, then, introduced Gordy.[13] These incidents 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."[14]
    On July 21, 1983, Ross held a concert in Central Park, the proceeds of which were to go towards building a playground in the singer's name. Fifteen minutes into the concert, which was being filmed for Showtime cable television and televised worldwide, a torrential downpour began. As she urged the crowd of over 800,000 to safely exit the venue, Ross announced that she would continue the performance the next day. Her actions drew praise from the mainstream press. That next day, over 500,000 people came back for one of the largest free concerts in the park's history. However, the second show generated controversy. During and after the concert, groups of young men began a rampage through Central Park, assaulting and robbing more than one hundred people. Some of the victims of the attacks subsequently filed lawsuits against New York City for failing to provide adequate security at the concert. The suits were eventually settled at a cost of millions of dollars. The funds for the playground were to be derived from sales of different items at the concert; however, all profits earned from the first concert were spent on the second. When the mainstream media discovered the exorbitant costs of the two concerts, Diana Ross faced criticism and poor publicity. Although representatives of Diana Ross originally refused to pay anything for the proposed playground, Ross later paid the US$250,000.00 required to build the park. The Diana Ross Playground was finally built three years later.[15]
    Other hit singles recorded by Ross for RCA included the Top 10 Grammy-nominated "Muscles" (1982), "So Close" (1983), "Pieces of Ice" (1983), "All of You" (1984), the #1 dance hit "Swept Away" (1984), the #1 R&B Marvin Gaye tribute "Missing You" (1985), "Eaten Alive" (1985) and the UK #1 single, "Chain Reaction", which was Diana's final appearance on the Hot 100 (1986). Ross also sang part of the lead vocal on the 1985 worldwide number-1 "We Are The World".
    (Technically speaking,"We Are The World",along with her 12 Supremes #1's and 6 solo #1's,gives Diana a total of 19 appearances on a #1 single).
    Albums during this period included the gold-certified release, All The Great Hits, Silk Electric (also Gold-certified), Diana Ross Anthology and Swept Away which sold over 900,000 copies in the US by the time it was taken out of print. Ross hosted The American Music Awards in 1986 and 1987, delighting the fashion press by changing evening gowns during each commercial break. However, while Ross continued to have success overseas, she began to struggle with record sales in the US as the 1980s drew to a close. The 1987 album Red Hot Rhythm & Blues sold fewer than 300,000 copies in the United States. "If We Hold On Together", the theme to the Don Bluth animated film "The Land Before Time" in 1988 was a #1 single in Japan, later making the UK Top 20 in 1992. In 1989, after leaving RCA, Diana Ross returned to Motown, where she was now both a part-owner and a recording artist.
    In 1989, Diana Ross released her first Motown album in eight years, the Nile Rodgers-produced Workin' Overtime. Despite a #3 R&B hit with the title track, the album failed to find a pop audience in America - selling only slightly over 100,000 copies. Subsequent follow-up albums such as 1991's The Force Behind the Power, 1995's Take Me Higher and 1999's Every Day is a New Day produced similar disappointing results in the US. Her last major R&B hit single was "No Matter What You Do", a duet with Al B. Sure!, which peaked at #4 in early 1991. She continued having minor R&B chart entries throughout the 1990s with only the title track of her album Take Me Higher reaching #1 on the Billboard dance chart and making the 'Bubbling Under The Hot 100' chart at #114.

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    Sam Guest

    Ross co-starred with R&B singer Brandy in the ABC television movie Double Platinum in 1999.


    Ross had success with her latter-day Motown albums and singles in the United Kingdom and Europe, however, scoring Top 10 UK hits with "When You Tell Me That You Love Me" (1991), "One Shining Moment" (1992), and "Not Over You Yet" (1999). Additionally, "Force Behind The Power", "Heart (Don't Change My Mind)" (1992), "Your Love" (1994), "The Best Years of My Life" (1994), "Take Me Higher" (1995), "Gone" (1995), "I Will Survive" (1996) and "In the Ones You Love" (1996) all reached either the UK Top 20 or Top 40, proving that while her domestic chart performance waned, she was still a viable recording artist internationally. Ross headlined the 1991 UK Royal Variety Performance and was a halftime performer at Super Bowl XXX in 1996. She also performed in London, England in 1995, delivering an outstanding set at Wembley Stadium as the pre-game attraction in the opening game of the Rugby League world cup between Great Britain and Australia. Having announced to the capacity crowd that "I love the game of Rugby League", Ross is known to be a major fan of the game, with a particular fondness for the Yorkshire team Batley. In 1999, she was named the most successful female singer in the history of the United Kingdom charts, based upon a tally of her career hits. Fellow Michigan singer Madonna would eventually succeed Ross as the most successful female artist in the UK.
    Diana Ross returned to acting in the ABC telefilm, Out of Darkness (1994), in which she played a woman suffering from schizophrenia. Ross drew critical acclaim for her acting, and scored her third Golden Globe nomination. In 1999, Ross co-starred with young R&B singer Brandy for the ABC television movie Double Platinum playing a singer who neglected her daughter while concentrating on her career.
    1999-2003

    Diana Ross was a presenter at the 1999 MTV Video Music Awards, held that September. She shocked television viewers when she touched rapper Lil' Kim's exposed, pasty-covered breast, amazed at the young rapper's brashness.[16] A month after the Lil Kim incident, authorities at London's Heathrow Airport detained Ross for "assaulting" a female security guard. The singer claimed that she had felt "violated as a woman" by the full-body search to which she was subjected. In retaliation, she was alleged to have touched the female airport security guard in a similar manner. The singer was detained but later released.[17]
    In 2000, Ross announced a Supremes reunion tour with former group-mates Mary Wilson and Cindy Birdsong, entitled Return to Love. Wilson and Birdsong declined the tour because of a reported difference in pay offered to each member: as performer and producer, Ross was offered a percentage of the tour's profits, while Wilson was offered $2 million (later increased to $3 million by Ross herself) and Birdsong, $1 million.[18] They were replaced by latter-day Supremes Lynda Laurence and Scherrie Payne, both of whom were members of the group after Diana Ross's departure. Despite a respectable opening in Philadelphia and sold-out performance at Madison Square Garden in New York (ironically, the final show they would play), the Return to Love tour was canceled after nine dates because of slow ticket sales, most of which cost double, and in some cases, triple what is charged for Diana Ross (as a solo performer) tickets.
    In December 2002, Ross was arrested in Tucson, Arizona for drunk driving. She pleaded "no contest", and later served a two-day jail sentence near her home in Greenwich, Connecticut.[19] Following the arrest and jail sentence, Ross stayed out of the public eye during much of the following year, and would not return to touring again until 2004.

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    Sam Guest
    Current work

    Wikinews has related news: Kennedy Center names 2007 honors recipients
    Following successful European and American tours in 2004, Diana Ross returned to the Billboard music charts with two duets in 2005. "I've Got a Crush on You", recorded with Rod Stewart for his album The Great American Songbook, reached number 19 on the Billboard Hot Adult Contemporary chart. The second, recorded with Westlife, was a remake of Ross's 1991 number-2 UK single, "When You Tell Me You Love Me", and reached number 2 in the UK, just as the original had, and number 1 in Ireland.
    In June 2006, Motown released the shelved Blue album, which peaked at number 2 on Billboard's Jazz Albums chart. Ross' new studio album, I Love You, was released worldwide on October 2, 2006 and January 16, 2007, in North America, on the Manhattan Records/EMI label.[20] The new album earned the coveted Hot Shot Debut by Billboard magazine when it debuted at #32 on Billboard's Hot100 pop albums chart and #16 on its R&B chart, making it Ross's first top-forty US pop album since 1984's Swept Away. Since its release in 2007, EMI Inside reports that I Love You has sold more than 622,000 copies worldwide.

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


    In January 2007, Ross appeared on a number of television shows across the U.S. to promote her new album and began touring in the spring. She appeared on American Idol as a mentor to the contestants[21] Ross's United States "I Love You" tour garnered positive reviews,[22] as did her European tour of the same year.[23]
    At the 2007 BET Awards, Ross was presented with a Lifetime Achievement Award by singer Alicia Keys and her five children. Stevie Wonder, Erykah Badu and Chaka Khan performed a tribute to Ross, covering several of her hits. During her acceptance speech, she lambasted the declining level of professional standards among the younger generation's musicians, as well as their overabundant use of vulgarity and profanity to garner press attention and record sales. Later that year, the prestigious Kennedy Center Honors committee, which recognizes career excellence, cultural influence and contributions to American culture, named Diana Ross as one of its honorees. Past honoree and fellow Motown alumni Smokey Robinson and actor Terrence Howard spoke on her behalf at the official ceremony that December, and singers Ciara, Vanessa L. Williams, Yolanda Adams and American Idol winner Jordin Sparks performed musical tributes.
    In February 2008, Ross was guest speaker at the Houston-based Brilliant Lecture series at The Hobby Center, Houston. The lectures are designed to present prolific and influential characters to speak about their life and inspirations. During her lecture Ross stated that it is "unlikely" that she would undertake any further movie projects.
    In May 2008, Ross headlined at New York's Radio City Music Hall at the 'Divas with Heart' event, which also featured fellow R&B legends Gladys Knight, Chaka Khan and Patti LaBelle. The following month she was a headliner at the City Stages music festival in Birmingham, AL, next to The Flaming Lips. The New York Times said about the duo, "the most incongruous headliners at an outdoor urban concert series, with the once-in-a-lifetime-at-most combination of Diana Ross and the Flaming Lips. Something for everyone, surely." She performed at two major events in the UK in July 2008: the famous Liverpool Pops Festival and the National Trust Summer Festival at Petworth House, West Sussex.
    Ross's 1970 album Everything Is Everything was released in the United States for the first time on CD on April 18, 2008, as an expanded edition with bonus tracks and alternate versions of the songs. On December 9, 2008, the expanded edition of her third solo album, Surrender, was released.
    In early December 2008, Motown announced the result of an international poll of the greatest Motown recordings. The winner, worldwide, was Marvin Gaye's "I Heard it Through the Grapevine" while Ross's version of "Ain't No Mountain High Enough" was No. 2. This track was the top choice by British voters. The poll determined the track listing for a Motown fiftieth anniversary album released in December. A significant number of Supremes and Diana Ross songs finished in the top 50 of the poll, requiring the elimination of some of these songs from the final track listing to prevent an unbalanced track selection.
    On October 16â??17, 2009, Diana Ross headlined the annual Dutch concert event, "Symphonica in Rosso", in the 34,000-seat Gelredome Stadium, in Arnhem. She was accompanied by a 40-piece orchestra. Each night was attended by 20,000 audience members.
    In January 2010, Motown released the extended version of the classic Touch Me In the Morning album, including tracks from the previously unreleased For The Baby album.
    In January 2010, it was reported that Ross was teaming up with shoe designer Steve Madden to launch a range of designer sneakers to be available through the Foot Locker retail company. Madden later explained that this story was not true; he mentioned Ross in an interview noting her as a style icon and the interviewer misinterpreted his answer.

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    Sam Guest
    Personal life

    Diana was the second of six children born to a Baptist family by Fred Ross (July 4, 1920 â?? November 21, 2007) and Ernestine Ross (January 27, 1916 â?? October 9, 1984) in Detroit's Brewster-Douglass Housing Projects. During Diana's later teenage years, her parents separated, divorcing in 1973. Diana's mother later married John Jordan in 1977. Fred Ross never remarried. Her older sister, Barbara, became a doctor. In 1993, Dr. Ross-Lee was appointed Dean of the Ohio University College of Osteopathic Medicine, becoming the first African-American woman to administer a medical school in the United States. Younger sister, Rita, became a teacher. Brothers Arthur and Chico Ross followed their sister into the recording industry and entertainment business, respectively.
    Diana Ross attended Detroit's Cass Technical High School, graduating in January, 1962, at the age of seventeen, one semester before the rest of her classmates.
    Ross is the mother of five children. She married music business manager Robert Ellis Silberstein in January, 1971. Daughter Rhonda Suzanne Silberstein was born on August 8, 1971; Rhonda's biological father is Berry Gordy. She is now married; her married name is Rhonda Ross Kendrick. Ross and Silberstein had two daughters: Tracee Joy Silberstein, born October 29, 1972 (now known as Tracee Ellis Ross) and Chudney Lane Silberstein, born November 4, 1975 (now known as Chudney Ross). Ross and Robert Silberstein divorced in March 1977.
    In January 1985, she married Norwegian shipping magnate Arne Næss, Jr.. Their sons are Ross Arne Næss (born October 7, 1987) and Evan Olav Næss (born August 26, 1988), now known as Evan Ross). After several years of legal separation, Ross and Næss were officially divorced in late 2000. Næss was killed in a mountain-climbing accident in South Africa in 2004.
    Rhonda and Tracee graduated from Brown University, and Chudney from Georgetown University. All have followed their mother to show business. Rhonda gained success as an actress in television movies and daytime soap operas. Tracee was a co-star of the hit UPN sitcom Girlfriends. Chudney is active in behind-the-scenes work and is also a model. Son Ross currently attends New York's Marist College, where he is a ski club member[24], and has not followed his siblings into show business. Youngest son Evan Ross is a successful actor, starring in the successful major motion pictures, ATL and Pride (co-starring Terrance Howard) and the HBO film, "Life Support", co-starring Dana Owens (Queen Latifah) and his older sister, Tracee Ellis-Ross.
    Rossâ??s brother, Arthur "T-Boy" Ross, was a songwriter for Motown; he co-wrote, â??I Want Youâ?, recorded by Marvin Gaye in 1976. Arthur and his wife, Patricia Ann Robinson, were murdered in May 1996. They were discovered in a dank basement, bound and gagged, after next-door neighbors contacted police regarding a foul odor coming from a run-down house in Oak Park, Michigan - town bordering Detroit. Police estimated that the bodies had been there for several days. The Ross family posted a $25,000 reward for any information related to the murders, but to date, the crime is unsolved. Diana Ross covered the song â??I Want Youâ? on her 2007 album I Love You.
    Ross was a close friend and longtime mentor of Michael Jackson, with whom she co-starred in the 1978 film version of the Broadway musical, The Wiz (a remake of The Wizard of Oz). After Jackson's sudden death on June 25, 2009, Ross was named in his will as the custodian of his children in the event of the death of his mother, Katherine Jackson.[25] Ross was invited to speak at the memorial held in Los Angeles on Tuesday July 7, 2009, but declined in a letter read by Smokey Robinson at the ceremony. Like Jackson's other close friends, Macaulay Culkin, Elizabeth Taylor, Quincy Jones, and Liza Minnelli, Ross stated that she wanted to grieve in private.
    Ross became a grandmother in the summer of 2009 when her daughter, Rhonda, gave birth to a boy.
    In popular culture


  7. #7
    Sam Guest
    Diana Ross's voice is the soundtrack to my life!

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    Jack-O-Lantern Guest
    We're seeing her perform in June. I've never seen her live, but my partner's seen her probably a dozen times. Looking forward to it, another diva on my bucket list checked off!

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    Nicki Guest
    Quote Originally Posted by Jack-O-Lantern View Post
    We're seeing her perform in June. I've never seen her live, but my partner's seen her probably a dozen times. Looking forward to it, another diva on my bucket list checked off!
    Where is she performing at?

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    Forever-27 Guest
    Gawd if I had the chance to actually meet her ..... Geeze what a time capsule she is. She was there from the very start. Ive already met and had lunch with mary Wilson. To be able to do soemthing like that with Diana would mean personally meeting the surviving Suprimes. Ohhhh Mannnnnnn

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    Jack-O-Lantern Guest
    Quote Originally Posted by Nicki View Post
    Where is she performing at?
    The Mountain Winery in Saratoga! It's my favorite place to see a show now...mature audience, great acts, great food, and a gorgeous venue. Very peaceful and relaxing place to see all the old faves! We saw Donna Summer here last year and it was so SO much fun! Diana Ross will be there in June...

    http://www.mountainwinery.com/concerts/

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    Nicki Guest
    Quote Originally Posted by Jack-O-Lantern View Post
    The Mountain Winery in Saratoga! It's my favorite place to see a show now...mature audience, great acts, great food, and a gorgeous venue. Very peaceful and relaxing place to see all the old faves! We saw Donna Summer here last year and it was so SO much fun! Diana Ross will be there in June...

    http://www.mountainwinery.com/concerts/
    Thanks Jack!

  13. #13
    Sam Guest
    I've been lucky enough to see her twice. In 2000 in the "Return To Love" tour in Dallas, and in 2007 at the Nokia Theater in Grand Prairie. She's FANTASTIC!
    I met Mary Wilson at a book signing, and I've met Scherrie Payne twice and seen her perform three times. Scherrie even invited me up on stage with two other people in 1997 to sing "Stoned Love" and she sat at our table at "Manhattan On McKinney" in 1986. She's a real sweetheart, and a GREAT singer.
    If you listen to the song "He's My Man" by The Supremes in 1975, she hits all the high notes Mary can't.
    Personally I don't think too much of Mary, because she's talked trash about Diana, but apparently they've made up, and I'm glad they did.

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    Jack-O-Lantern Guest
    I have (think it's her latest) CD, 'I Love You.' She's in fine voice. A really lovely album, I like it a lot and recommend!

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    Sam Guest
    Quote Originally Posted by Jack-O-Lantern View Post
    I have (think it's her latest) CD, 'I Love You.' She's in fine voice. A really lovely album, I like it a lot and recommend!

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    I have to say I was very dissapointed with that album, I'm glad you liked it though.
    Here's one that didn't get a lot of praise, but I think it's one of her best.


  16. #16
    mstee2u1972 Guest
    I love the duet she did with Marvin Gaye in the early 1970's called "My Mistake." And I absolutely love the Supremes! Have read every book written on them I can get my hads on.

  17. #17
    crazedfemale Guest
    I met her in Dallas last April at her appearance at the Mort. Lovely woman.

  18. #18
    Sam Guest
    She has done so many wonderful things for people that she never gets credit for, and she never mentions them.
    The man who has "Dick's Diana Ross Website" had two of his grandsons die in a house fire about three years ago, and Diana paid for those little boys funerals.

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    Jack-O-Lantern Guest
    Quote Originally Posted by mstee2u1972 View Post
    I love the duet she did with Marvin Gaye in the early 1970's called "My Mistake." And I absolutely love the Supremes! Have read every book written on them I can get my hads on.
    I too absolutely love that song, one of my all-time favorites.

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    Sam Guest
    Quote Originally Posted by Jack-O-Lantern View Post
    I too absolutely love that song, one of my all-time favorites.
    Mine too, and it's not a "happy" song when you think about the lyrics, but I LOVE to hear it, it makes me happy.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Sam View Post
    Mine too, and it's not a "happy" song when you think about the lyrics, but I LOVE to hear it, it makes me happy.
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Ll2otSCnBo

    MY MISTAKE (Was To Love You)

    My mistake was to love you, girl
    Love you, girl
    My mistake was to give you all
    Tell the world

    First I had you
    In the palm of my hand
    But I let you slip through
    Like rain to sand
    At the beginning
    When I didn't care
    Like my own reflection
    You were always there

    My mistake was to love you, girl
    Love you, girl
    My mistake was to give you all
    Tell the world

    You were sweeter
    Then my very own skin
    But what did I do for you
    Not a thing
    In front of my friends
    You broke me down
    Since then darling
    It's hard to track you down

    My mistake was to love you, boy
    Love you, boy
    My mistake was to give my all
    Tell the world

    Many a smile
    You put on my face
    But I paid dearly
    With the tears I taste

    My tenderness
    Made you cold, not sweet
    'Cause if a girl loves you
    You only call her weak

    My mistake was to love you, boy
    Love you, boy
    My mistake was to give my all
    Tell the world

    My mistake was to love you, girl
    Love you, girl
    My mistake was to give you all
    Tell the world

  22. #22
    Jack-O-Lantern Guest
    Here's a great blog about her, featuring info about her upcoming tour locations and dates! This tour will evidently feature her 'greatest hits' and will be performed as a 'theatrical experience.'
    Sounds wonderful, can't wait to see her!

    http://www.marksdianarosswebsite.com/index.html

  23. #23
    Sam Guest
    What are your favorite Diana Ross songs?

    Mine are;

    1960's "Love Is Like An Itching In My Heart"
    1970's "The Boss"
    1980's "Chain Reaction"
    1990's "Take Me Higher"


  24. #24
    Jack-O-Lantern Guest
    With the Supremes:

    'Reflections'


    Without 'em:

    'Touch Me In The Morning'
    'Love Hangover'
    'My Mistake'
    ...and of course her take on Billie Holiday's 'Good Morning Heartache'!

    Though historically inaccurate, I also love the film Lady Sings The Blues. Ross sounded nothing like Lady Day, but I loved her versions of the songs regardless. A great, entertaining movie--her best film performance by far.

  25. #25
    Sam Guest
    Quote Originally Posted by Jack-O-Lantern View Post
    Though historically inaccurate, I also love the film Lady Sings The Blues. Ross sounded nothing like Lady Day, but I loved her versions of the songs regardless. A great, entertaining movie--her best film performance by far.
    I agree, although I LOVED "Mahogany".

    And who can't love this video blending the past from shows like "Hullabaloo" and "Shindig" into the what was then present 1986?
    I think she looked her absolute BEST in the 80's, but she dropped out of sight to have her boys.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UaYHRx9-v2M

  26. #26
    Sam Guest
    I take that back. She still looked DAMNED good in 1995!

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vlckx_CjlWc

  27. #27
    Jack-O-Lantern Guest
    If anyone is interested in seeing really early footage of the Supremes (BEFORE they were 'Diana Ross and the Supremes'), check out the just-released dvd of the concert film The T.A.M.I. Show.
    I just got my copy and it's a simply amazing film. A one-time event, held at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium in 1964. The Supremes, Leslie Gore, The Miracles, The Beach Boys, James Brown, Marvin Gaye, Jan & Dean, Chuck Berry AND The Rolling Stones, all in one evening on one stage!! They're all so young! Marvin Gaye looks like a teenager! And Diana's wig is WAY bigger than her head!!!

    Even though I was only 5 years old at the time, I remember this music so well. It's a glorious film and brought back so many memories of childhood, and how music used to be so much fun.

    http://www.amazon.com/T-M-I-Show-Col...0831543&sr=8-1

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  28. #28
    Sam Guest
    I was 9 the first time I saw "The Supreme's" on the Ed Sulivan show December 27th 1964.
    It makes me sad to see Diana age, (hell, it makes me sad to see ME age) but she still looks damned good for a 66 year old.

  29. #29
    mstee2u1972 Guest
    Quote Originally Posted by Sam View Post
    What are your favorite Diana Ross songs?

    Mine are;

    1960's "Love Is Like An Itching In My Heart"
    1970's "The Boss"
    1980's "Chain Reaction"
    1990's "Take Me Higher"

    'The Happening"
    "Stop! In The Name of Love"
    "I Hear a Symphony"
    "Reflections"
    "I'm Gonna Make You Love Me" w/The Temptations
    "Someday We'll Be Together" (yeah I know all of the Supremes didn't sing on this one but sill loved it!)
    "Silver Bells" (always puts me in the holiday spirit)
    "Remember Me"
    "It's My Turn"
    "Love Hangover"
    "Upside Down"
    "I'm Coming Out"
    "The Boss"
    "Missing You"
    "Theme from Mahogany"
    "Lady Sings the Blues soundtrack"

  30. #30
    Sam Guest
    The problem I have with the Diana Ross/Marvin Gaye duets is that in the book "Prince Of Soul" Marvin said Motown asked him to do the album with Diana because her career wasn't doing so well as a solo act, and she needed his help.
    I think that was a shitty thing to say, and I highly doubt she needed HIS help at all.

  31. #31
    Rudy's Girl Guest
    We saw her at the Paramount Theater in Oakland. I couldn't get over those fabulous gowns.

    I have loved the Supremes since I was a little girl, not to mention everything Motown.....

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