Diana Ross is an American singer and actress. She rose to fame as the lead singer of the vocal group The Supremes. Ross has also ventured into acting, with a Golden Globe Award-winning and Academy Award-nominated performance in the film Lady Sings the Blues.
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Diana Ross is an American singer and actress. She rose to fame as the lead singer of the vocal group The Supremes. Ross has also ventured into acting, with a Golden Globe Award-winning and Academy Award-nominated performance in the film Lady Sings the Blues. She was the recipient of the Kennedy Center Honors in 2007, the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award in 2012, and the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2016. She is the only female artist to have number-one singles on the Billboard Hot 100 as a solo artist, as the other half of a duet, as a member of a trio, and as an ensemble member. In 2019, Ross made history by charting four more number-ones on the US Billboard Dance Chart in just two years with remixes ‘Ain’t No Mountain High Enough 2017’ in January 2018, ‘I’m Coming OutUpside Down 2018’ in August that year and ‘The Boss 2019’ in April 2019. In 1990s, Guinness Book of World Records recognized her success in the United States and United Kingdom for having more hits than any female artist in the charts. She had a top 10 UK hit in every one of the last five decades, and sang lead on a top 75 hit single at least once every year from 1964 to 1996 in the UK, a period of 33 consecutive years and a record for any performer. In 1988, Ross was inducted to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a members of the Supremees.
She also starred in two other feature films, Mahogany and The Wiz, later acting in the television films Out of Darkness, for which she also was nominated for a Golden Globes Award, and Double Platinum. Ross was named the \”Female Entertainer of the Century\” by Billboard in 1976. She has a career total of 70 hit singles with her work with theSupremes and as a Solo artist. She achieved two more US number-1 singles, and UK number- one hit \”Chain Reaction\” and UK number-two hit ‘When You Tell Me You Love Me’ in the 1970s, 80s and 90s. According to Ross, her mother was a former slave who had become a midwife after the Civil War and lived near the Belmont Road section of Detroit, Michigan. Her grandfather was Francis Francis Baytop, a former Virginia Baytop Top of the Bay top. Ross’s elder sister is American physician Barbara Ross-Lee. Her mother actually recorded her name as ‘Diane’ on her birth certificate, but, a clerical error resulted in her name being recorded as ‘Diana’ She was born in Detroit on March 26, 1944, and was the second-eldest child of Ernestine and Fred Ross, Sr. She has three children. Her husband is American doctor and physician, Dr. John E. Ross, and they live in Gloucester County, Virginia.
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