دایانا راس

دایانا ارنستین ایرل راس (به انگلیسی: Diana Ernestine Earle Ross) (زادهٔ ۲۶ مارس ۱۹۴۴)؛ خواننده و بازیگر زن اهل آمریکا است. او در دههٔ شصت میلادی خوانندهٔ اصلی گروه سوپریمز (Supremes) بود. راس در ۱۴ ژانویه ۱۹۷۰ برای ادامه حرفه‌اش به‌عنوان خواننده تک، از گروه جدا شد. از زمان آغاز فعالیت او با گروه سوپریمز و نیز به‌عنوان خواننده تک، بیش از ۱۰۰ میلیون نسخه از آثارش به فروش رفته‌است. یکی از پرفروش‌ترین هنرمندان موسیقی جهان بشماردیانا إرنستین إیرل روس (بالإنجلیزیة: Diane Ernestine Earle Ross) (ولدت فی 26 مارس 1944) هی مغنیة آر إن بی وبوب وممثلة أمریکیة. تعد دیانا روس واحدة من أنجح المغنیات فی عهدها بسبب نجاحها کمغنیة منفردة وکقائدة فرقة سبریمز خلال الستینات.
فی عام 1976، أعطت مجلة بیلبورد دیانا روس لقب أفضل مغنیة فی القرن. فی عام 1993، دخلت دیانا روس موسوعة غینیس للأرقام القیاسیة کأنجح مغنیة من حیث المبیعات، إلا أن ماریا کیری استطاعت التفوق علیها بعد ذلک. 18 أغنیة من أغانی دیانا روس وصلت للمرتبة الأولى فی سباق أغانی الولایات المتحدة، 12 منها غنتها مع فرقة سبریمز. وهی واحدة من قلة مغنیات البوب اللواتی حصلن على جائزة أوسکار للتمثیل، بعدما أدت دور شخصیة "بیلی هولیدای" فی فیلم "السیدة التی تغنی البلوز" (Lady Sings the Blues) عام 1972.
[عدل]أهم الأعمال الموسیقیة

1970: Diana Ross
1971: Everything Is Everything
1971: Diana
1971: Surrender
1972: Lady Sings the Blues
1973: Touch Me in the Morning
1973: Diana & Marvin
1973: Last Time I Saw Him
1974: Live at Caesar's Palace
1976: Diana Ross
1977: An Evening with Diana Ross
1977: Baby, It's Me
1978: Ross
1979: The Boss
1980: diana
1981: To Love Again
1981: Why Do Fools Fall in Love
1982: Silk Electric
1983: Ross
1984: Swept Away
1985: Eaten Alive
1987: Red Hot Rhythm & Blues
1989: Workin' Overtime
1989: Greatest Hits Live
1991: The Force Behind the Power
1992: Stolen Moments: The Lady Sings Blues and Jazz
1993: Christmas in Vienna
1995: Take Me Higher
1999: Every Day Is a New Day
2001: Love & Life: The Very Best of Diana Ross
2006:Blue
تصنیفات: أمریکیون أفارقةمغنیات أمریکیات ممثلات أمریکیات موالید 1944أشخاص على قید الحیاة است.
راس یک خواننده سوپرانو است.
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فهرست پرفروش‌ترین هنرمندان موسیقی
منبع [ویرایش]

مشارکت‌کنندگان ویکی‌پدیا، «Diana Ross»، ویکی‌پدیای انگلیسی، دانشنامهٔ آزاد (بازیابی در ۶ ژانویه ۲۰۱۰).
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دیانا إرنستین إیرل روس (بالإنجلیزیة: Diane Ernestine Earle Ross) (ولدت فی 26 مارس 1944) هی مغنیة آر إن بی وبوب وممثلة أمریکیة. تعد دیانا روس واحدة من أنجح المغنیات فی عهدها بسبب نجاحها کمغنیة منفردة وکقائدة فرقة سبریمز خلال الستینات.
فی عام 1976، أعطت مجلة بیلبورد دیانا روس لقب أفضل مغنیة فی القرن. فی عام 1993، دخلت دیانا روس موسوعة غینیس للأرقام القیاسیة کأنجح مغنیة من حیث المبیعات، إلا أن ماریا کیری استطاعت التفوق علیها بعد ذلک. 18 أغنیة من أغانی دیانا روس وصلت للمرتبة الأولى فی سباق أغانی الولایات المتحدة، 12 منها غنتها مع فرقة سبریمز. وهی واحدة من قلة مغنیات البوب اللواتی حصلن على جائزة أوسکار للتمثیل، بعدما أدت دور شخصیة "بیلی هولیدای" فی فیلم "السیدة التی تغنی البلوز" (Lady Sings the Blues) عام 1972.
[عدل]أهم الأعمال الموسیقیة

1970: Diana Ross
1971: Everything Is Everything
1971: Diana
1971: Surrender
1972: Lady Sings the Blues
1973: Touch Me in the Morning
1973: Diana & Marvin
1973: Last Time I Saw Him
1974: Live at Caesar's Palace
1976: Diana Ross
1977: An Evening with Diana Ross
1977: Baby, It's Me
1978: Ross
1979: The Boss
1980: diana
1981: To Love Again
1981: Why Do Fools Fall in Love
1982: Silk Electric
1983: Ross
1984: Swept Away
1985: Eaten Alive
1987: Red Hot Rhythm & Blues
1989: Workin' Overtime
1989: Greatest Hits Live
1991: The Force Behind the Power
1992: Stolen Moments: The Lady Sings Blues and Jazz
1993: Christmas in Vienna
1995: Take Me Higher
1999: Every Day Is a New Day
2001: Love & Life: The Very Best of Diana Ross
2006:Blue
تصنیفات: أمریکیون أفارقةمغنیات أمریکیات ممثلات أمریکیات موالید 1944أشخاص على قید الحیاة
قس انگلیسی
Diana Ernestine Earle Ross (born March 26, 1944[1]) is an American singer, record producer, and actress.
Diana Ross was lead singer of the Motown group The Supremes during the 1960s. After leaving the group in 1970, Ross began a solo career that has included successful ventures into film and Broadway. She received a Best Actress Academy Award nomination for her role as Billie Holiday in Lady Sings the Blues (1972), for which she won a Golden Globe award. She has won seven American Music Awards, was honored with a 2012 Lifetime Achievement Grammy Award,[2] and won a Tony Award for her one-woman show, An Evening with Diana Ross, in 1977.[3]
In 1976, Billboard magazine named her the "Female Entertainer of the Century."[4] In 1993, the Guinness Book of World Records declared Diana Ross the most successful female music artist in history due to her success in the United States and United Kingdom for having more hits than any female artist in the charts with a career total of 18 number one records in the United States. Diana Ross has sold more than 100 million records worldwide.[5]
Ross is one of the few recording artists to have two stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame—one as a solo artist and the other as a member of The Supremes. In December 2007, she received the Kennedy Center Honors.
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[edit]Early life

Diana Ross, the daughter of Ernestine (née Moten) (January 27, 1916 – October 9, 1984), a schoolteacher, and Fred Ross, Sr. (July 4, 1920 – November 21, 2007), a former United States Army soldier, was born at Hutzel Women's Hospital[6] in Detroit, Michigan. Ross said that she did not see her father until he returned from serving in World War II. 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. She always went by "Diane" at home and at school. Her high school yearbook listed her as "Diana" and as early as 1963, when The Supremes released their first album, she was listed in the liner notes as "Diana". At The Supremes' first Copacabana engagement in 1965, she introduced herself to the audience as "Diane", but later that year she started introducing herself as "Diana". Her intimates still call her "Diane".[7][8]
After living on Belmont Road in Detroit's North End for several years, Ross's family settled on St. Antoine Street in the Brewster-Douglass housing projects on Ross' fourteenth birthday in 1958. Ross aspired to be a fashion designer, and studied design, millinery, pattern-making and seamstress skills while attending Cass Technical High School, a four-year college preparatory magnet school, in downtown Detroit. In her late teens, Ross worked at Hudson's Department Store where, it was claimed in biographies, that she was the first black employee "allowed outside the kitchen". Ross graduated in January 1962, one semester earlier than her classmates. Ross' parents had a difficult marriage and separated when Ross was still in her teens.
[edit]Career

[edit]The Supremes: 1959–1970
Main article: The Supremes
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. In 1960, Lu Pine Records signed the group and issued the Ross-led single "Tears of Sorrow" backed with the Wilson-led "Pretty Baby". After winning a singing contest in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Ross approached former neighbor Smokey Robinson for an audition at the label with which he recorded, Motown Records. The group garnered the audition and impressed Motown's CEO, Berry Gordy (who arrived at the audition during the group's performance), but declined to work with the group due to their being underaged. Undeterred, the group would stand outside the label's Hitsville U.S.A. studios hoping to grab attention, eventually providing backing vocals & hand claps for many of Motown's more established artists. Meanwhile during the group's struggling early years, Ross earned pay in the day as Berry Gordy's secretary. She also served at the group's main hair stylist, make-up artist, seamstress & costume designer during this period.


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 signed with Motown Records under their new moniker, The Supremes, chosen by Florence Ballard, who was the only member to be present when the group was offered a name change. Both Ross and Wilson initially disliked the name, afraid they would be mistaken for a men's group (Ruby & the Romantics' original name was The Supremes) but the name stuck regardless.
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, and the Ross-led "When the Lovelight Starts Shining Through His Eyes" became the group's first Billboard Top 40 Pop single. The Supremes hit number one with "Where Did Our Love Go", a song rejected by The Marvelettes, and then achieved unprecedented success: between August 1964 and May 1967, Ross, Wilson and Ballard sang on ten number-one hit singles, all of which also made the UK Top 40.
Gordy removed Florence Ballard from the group in July 1967 and chose Cindy Birdsong, a member of Patti LaBelle and the Bluebelles, as her replacement. At about the same time, he changed the group's name to Diana Ross & the Supremes.
Motown initially conceived of a solo career for Diana Ross in 1966, but did not act on it until 1968. Television specials such as TCB (1968) and G.I.T. on Broadway (1969) were designed to spotlight her 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 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 on January 14, 1970.
[edit]Early solo career: 1970–1981
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 1994, The Supremes were recognized with a star on Hollywood Walk of Fame at 7060 Hollywood Blvd.
In May 1970, Diana Ross was released on Motown. The first single, the gospel-influenced waltz, "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 #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. 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.
In 1973 Ross returned to number-one with the single "Touch Me in the Morning". The album of the same name became her first top five charted pop release. Later that same year, Ross and fellow Motown star Marvin Gaye released a duet album, Diana & Marvin. The duo scored an international hit with their cover of The Stylistics' "You Are Everything". Also in 1973, she was the first entertainer in Japan's history to receive an invitation to the Imperial Palace for a private audience with the Empress Nagako, wife of Emperor Hirohito.
Ross' 1974 follow-up album, Last Time I Saw Him, wasn't as successful despite the success of its country-tinged title track. Two years later Ross ventured into disco with "Love Hangover", which returned her to number-one. The self-titled parent album became another top five hit and included her previous number-one, the movie theme, "Do You Know Where You're Going To (Theme from Mahogany)". Ross' subsequent follow-ups, including Baby It's Me (1977) and Ross (1978) fell off the charts soon after they appeared. Ross did have success with her first Broadway one-woman show, An Evening with Diana Ross. Her performance later won her a Tony. She was featured in TV special with the same name.
In 1979 Ross hired former collaborators Ashford & Simpson, who had left Motown in 1973 due to contractual issues with Berry Gordy, to overlook the production of her next album, The Boss. That album produced the hit title track and the modestly successful "It's My House". Ross' working relationship with Berry Gordy had deteriorated at that point as Gordy refused to be an executive producer of the project. In 1980, Ross hired Nile Rodgers and Bernard Edwards of the group CHIC to overlook production of her final contractual Motown album, diana. That album led to major success with "Upside Down" returning Ross to number-one on the pop charts for the first time since "Love Hangover". Its follow-up, "I'm Coming Out", was as successful and both songs found major success overseas.
In 1981, Ross decided not to renew her Motown contract only to discover that everything she thought she had owned was only leased to her by Berry Gordy. Ross accepted a $20 million deal with RCA in 1981, then the most lucrative contract in music. To complete contractual obligations to Motown, Ross recorded several songs with Lionel Richie, one of which, "Endless Love", led to the duo having an international number-one hit. The song was the theme song of the movie of the same name. When "Endless Love" hit #1 in 1981, Diana Ross became the first woman in music history to chart six #1 records. Combining her 12 as lead singer of The Supremes, Diana Ross' career total of number one records is 18, the most for any female recording artist in music history. Mariah Carey tied Ross' record in 2007. Motown issued a compilation album, To Love Again, to compete with Ross' RCA debut.
[edit]Film career: 1972–1999
Main articles: Lady Sings the Blues (film), Mahogany (film), The Wiz (film), Out of Darkness, and Double Platinum
Though Ross had previously appeared in two films while a member of The Supremes, it wasn't until the early 1970s when Berry Gordy began to focus on making Ross an actress. 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. The movie co-starred Billy Dee Williams as Holiday's lover, Louis McKay. The cast also included comedian Richard Pryor as the "Piano Man".
Some critics ridiculed Ross's casting in the role. Ross and Holiday were considered to be "miles apart" in vocal styling and appearance. Undeterred, Ross immersed herself in Holiday's music and life story. She went to drug clinics and talked with doctors as research for the role. Ross made a crucial decision when it came to interpreting Holiday's music. Instead of imitating Billie Holiday's voice, Ross focused on Holiday's seemingly inimitable vocal phrasing.
Opening in October 1972, Lady Sings the Blues was a major success, and Ross's performance was lauded and well received. Jazz critic Leonard Feather, a friend of Billie Holiday, praised Ross for "expertly capturing the essence of Lady Day." In 1973, Ross was nominated for both a Golden Globe Award and an Academy Award for "Best Actress". Ross along with fellow nominee that year Cicely Tyson, were the second African American actresses to be nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress after Dorothy Dandridge. Ross won the Golden Globe for Best Newcomer, but 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 broke then industry records by shipping 300,000 copies during its first eight days of release. The double-pocket custom label record is one of Ross's best-selling albums of all time, with total sales to date of nearly two million copies.
In 1975, Ross again co-starred with Billy Dee Williams in the Motown film Mahogany. The story of an aspiring fashion designer who becomes a runway model and the toast of the industry, Mahogany was a troubled production from its inception. The film's original director, Tony Richardson, was fired during production and Berry Gordy assumed the director's chair himself. In addition, Gordy and Ross clashed during filming, with Ross leaving the production 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".[9]
In 1977, Motown acquired the film rights to the Broadway play The Wiz, an African-American reinterpretation of L. Frank Baum's The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. Although teenage Stephanie Mills, a veteran of the play, was originally cast as Dorothy, Ross convinced Universal Pictures producer Rob Cohen to have Ross cast as Dorothy. Because of Ross' age, the script was modified to make the protagonist a school teacher rather than a schoolgirl. Among Ross's costars were Lena Horne, Michael Jackson, Richard Pryor, Nipsey Russell and Ted Ross. Upon its October 1978 release, the film adaptation of The Wiz, a $24 million production, earned $21,049,053 at the box office.[10][11][12] Though pre-release television broadcast rights had been sold to CBS for over $10 million, the film produced a net loss of $10.4 million for Motown and Universal.[11][12] At the time, it was the most expensive film musical ever made.[13] The film's failure ended Ross' short career on the big screen and contributed to the Hollywood studios' reluctance to produce the all-black film projects which had become popular during the blaxploitation era of the early-to-mid 1970s for several years.[14][15][16] The Wiz was Ross' final film for Motown.
Ross had success with movie-themed songs. While her version of Holiday's "Good Morning Heartache" only performed modestly well in early 1973, her recording of "Theme from Mahogany (Do You Know Where You're Going To)" gave Ross her third number-one hit, in late 1975. Three years later, Ross and Michael Jackson had a modest dance hit with their recording of "Ease on Down the Road". Their second duet, actually as part of the ensemble of The Wiz, "Brand New Day", found some success overseas. Ross scored a Top 10 hit in late 1980 with the theme song to the 1980 film It's My Turn. The following year, she collaborated with former Commodores singer-songwriter Lionel Richie on the theme song for the film Endless Love. The Academy Award-nominated "Endless Love" single became her final hit on Motown Records, and the number one record of the year. Several years later, in 1988, Ross recorded the theme song to The Land Before Time. "If We Hold On Together" became an international hit reaching number-one in Japan.
Ross would be given movie offers over the years but reportedly turned them down because of either contractual obligations or fears of being typecast. Ross had campaigned to portray pioneering entertainer Josephine Baker in a feature film even during her later years in Motown. However, in 1991, the feature film turned into a TV film with Lynn Whitfield playing Baker instead of Ross. Ross was also offered a role in an early adaptation of The Bodyguard with Ryan O'Neal. However, plans of this adaptation fell through. Years later, Whitney Houston and Kevin Costner assumed the roles of Ross and O'Neal in the 1992 film. In 1993, Ross returned to making movies with a dramatic role in the TV film, Out of Darkness. Ross won acclaim for her role in the film and a well earned third Golden Globe nomination. In 1999, she and Brandy Norwood co-starred in the film, Double Platinum, which was released prior to the release of Ross' album, Every Day Is a New Day.
[edit]Later solo career: 1981–1999
Diana Ross's RCA Records debut, Why Do Fools Fall in Love, was issued in October 1981. The album yielded three 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. That success was repeated if only more modestly with the 1982 album, Silk Electric. Ross' recording of Michael Jackson's "Muscles" gave Ross another top ten hit. Ross' 1983 album, Ross, failed to produce any major success. It's single "Pieces Of Ice" peaked at #31 on the Hot 100 and was more popular as a music video than a Pop hit.
On January 24, 1982, Diana Ross sang the National Anthem at Super Bowl XVI.
On July 21, 1983, Ross performed a concert in Central Park for a taped Showtime special. Proceeds of the concert would be donated to build a playground in the singer's name. Midway through the beginning of the show, a torrential downpour occurred. Ross tried to keep on performing, but the severe weather required that the show be stopped. Ross urged the large crowd to exit the venue safely, promising to perform the next day. The second concert held the very next day was without rain. 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 $250,000 required to build the park. The Diana Ross Playground was finally built three years later.[17] The Diana Ross Playground at 83rd and Central Park West is a beautiful assortment of wood structures and classic outdoor children's gym obstacles making it a lovely addition to the park.
In 1984, Ross' career spiked yet again with the release of the million-selling Swept Away. The title track became an international hit as did the chart-topping ballad, "Missing You", which was a tribute to Marvin Gaye, who had died earlier that year. Her 1985 album, Eaten Alive, found major success overseas with the title track and "Chain Reaction", although neither of the songs became the best-sellers she was once accustomed to in America. Earlier in 1985, she appeared as part of the supergroup USA for Africa on the "'We Are the World'" charity single, which sold over 20 million copies world wide. Ross' 1987 follow up to Eaten Alive, Red Hot Rhythm & Blues, found less success than the prior album. In 1988, Ross chose to not renew her RCA contract.
Motown Records was being sold by Berry Gordy for $60 million. Ross advised Gordy not to make the move. Before leaving Motown, Gordy offered Ross a contract back to Motown. Ross was at first hesitant to return to the label but agreed after Gordy offered her part-ownership of the label. Despite initial promotion, Ross' next album, Workin' Overtime, bombed. Subsequent follow-ups including The Force Behind the Power (1991), Take Me Higher (1995) and Every Day Is a New Day (1999) produced similarly disappointing sales. Ross had more success overseas with the albums than she did in America. In 1994, Ross performed at the opening ceremony of the FIFA World Cup, hosted in the USA. Her performance has become a running joke in football circles due to her obvious miming and for missing the goal from close range.[18][19]
On January 28, 1996, Diana Ross performed the Halftime Show at Super Bowl XXX.
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. Madonna would eventually succeed Ross as the most successful female artist in the UK.
Later that year, Ross presented at the 1999 MTV Video Music Awards in September of the year and shocked the audience by touching rapper Lil' Kim's exposed breast, pasty-covered nipple, amazed at the young rapper's brashness.[20]
[edit]Supremes reunions and Return to Love
Main articles: Motown 25: Yesterday, Today, Forever and Return to Love Tour
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,[21] at which point Ross pushed down Wilson's hand-held microphone, stating "It's been taken care of." Ross, then, introduced Gordy.[22] 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."[23]
The original Supremes were inducted to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1988. Original member Florence Ballard had died twelve years earlier. Ross was performing around the time of the induction ceremony and was unable to attend; Mary Wilson accepted the award.[citation needed] In 1999, Ross, Wilson and Cindy Birdsong held discussions about a possible Supremes reunion tour. These negotiations failed, and Ross hired late-era Supremes members Lynda Laurence and Scherrie Payne, who were touring as the Former Ladies of the Supremes, to participate. The Return to Love tour was launched in June 2000. The tour did well in large markets, but, struggled in medium markets due to controversial press stories. Despite selling out the final evening at Madison Square Garden in New York, the tour ended abruptly after just fourteen dates.[citation needed]
[edit]Current work
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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 January, 2005, M.A.C. Cosmetics named Diana Ross its beauty icon for 2005. 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.[24] 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 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; Ross; 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[25] Ross's United States "I Love You" tour garnered positive reviews,[26] as did her European tour of the same year.[27]
At the 2007 BET Awards, Ross was presented with a Lifetime Achievement Award by her five children and singer Alicia Keys. Stevie Wonder, Erykah Badu and Chaka Khan performed musical tributes to Ross, covering several of her most popular recordings. During her acceptance speech, Ross 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.
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 City's Radio City Music Hall's 'Divas with Heart' concert event, which also featured fellow performers 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. In June 2009, Diana Ross' recording of "Ain't No Mountain High Enough" was voted a Legendary Michigan Song.[28] On October 16–17, 2009, Diana Ross headlined the annual Dutch concert event, Symphonica in Rosso, in the 34,000-seat Gelredome Stadium, in Arnhem, The Netherlands. She was accompanied by a 40-piece orchestra. Each of the two concerts was sold out.
Ross performed a cross-country tour in the summer of 2010. The More Today Than Yesterday: The Greatest Hits Tour featured an all-new set list, stage design, and costumes galore, and was dedicated to her friend Michael Jackson who died in June 2009. The tour, which commenced on May 15, 2010, in Boston, Massachusetts, earned Ross excellent reviews in every city in which she performed, and concluded in Saratoga, California. An extended American leg of the tour began in September, 2010, and is scheduled to continue until March 2011, in Stamford, Connecticut, after which, another American leg of her tour will begin on September 11, 2011, at Temecula, CA's Pechanga Resort and Casino, & continuing throughout autumn, 2011. It is rumored that Ross will mount European & Asian legs of the tour. In June 2011, Diana Ross was voted into the Michigan Rock and Roll Legends online Hall of Fame.[29] On December 21, 2011, The Recording Academy has announced, along with several legendary artists, including bossa nova originator Antonio Carlos Jobim & late Apple CEO Steve Jobs, Diana Ross received a Grammy Special Merit Lifetime Achievement Award on February 11, 2012. On February 23, 2012, Ross will begin the fifth US leg of her highly successful More Today Than Yesterday: The Greatest Hits Tour at the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino, in Hollywood, Fla.
[edit]Personal life

While Ross' mother was supportive of her career, her father was disappointed in her choice to be an entertainer rather than attend college like her other siblings. Biographies later stated Ross' drive was inspired by a lack of a support she felt from her father. Ross and her father's relationship repaired over the years until Fred Ross died in 2007. Ross' mother died in 1984.
Ross' elder sister Barbara found success as a doctor and in 1993, was appointed as dean of the Ohio University College of Osteopathic Medicine, becoming the first black American woman to administer a medical school in the United States. Rita Ross, Diana's younger sister, became a teacher. Brothers Arthur and Wilbert "Chico" Ross followed their sister into the recording industry and entertainment business, respectively. Arthur became a songwriter for Motown writing hits for Michael Jackson, The Miracles and Marvin Gaye while Chico became a professional dancer and choreographer joining his elder sister as a choreographer on her shows during the 1970s and 1980s. Eldest brother Fred Ross, Jr., a veteran of the Vietnam War, never followed his sister into show business settling for civilian life in his native Detroit. Brother Arthur and his wife, Patricia Robinson, were murdered in 1996 in the northern Detroit suburb of Oak Park, Michigan. Their bodies were found bound and gagged in their basement. As of this writing, no one has been convicted of the murders. A state's witness disappeared before the case's primary suspect could be tried.
Ross married twice. Her first husband was music business manager Robert Ellis Silberstein, whom she married in January 1971. They divorced in March 1977. In January 1986, after a romantic courtship, Ross married billionaire Norwegian shipping magnate Arne Næss, Jr.. After several years of legal separation, the couple were officially divorced in 2000. Næss was later killed in a mountain climbing accident in 2004. Ross attended his funeral.
Ross is the mother of five children. Daughter Rhonda Suzanne Silberstein was born on August 14, 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 had two sons with Næss. Their sons are Ross Arne Næss (born October 7, 1987) and Evan Olav Næss (born August 26, 1988), now known as Evan Ross). Ross became a grandmother when daughter Rhonda gave birth to a boy, Raif-Henok Emmanuel Kendrick, on August 7, 2009.
[edit]Solo discography

Main article: Diana Ross discography
[edit]Filmography

1964: T.A.M.I. Show (with The Supremes)
1965: Beach Ball (with The Supremes)
1972: Lady Sings the Blues
1975: Mahogany
1978: The Wiz
1994: Out of Darkness
1999: Double Platinum
2002: The Making and Meaning of We Are Family (documentary)
2010: Met With Sandra Ellison and Tamia Holmes
[edit]Television

1968: Tarzan (with The Supremes)
1968: T.C.B. (with The Supremes)
1981: diana
1981: Standing Room Only: Diana Ross
1983: Motown 25: Yesterday, Today, Forever
1983: For One And For All – Diana Ross Live! in Central Park
1987: Diana Ross: Red Hot Rhythm and Blues
1989: Diana Ross: Workin' Overtime
1992: Diana Ross Live! The Lady Sings... Jazz & Blues: Stolen Moments
1994: Out of Darkness
1996: Super Bowl XXX
1999: Double Platinum
2000: VH1 Divas 2000: A Tribute to Diana Ross
2005: Tsunami Aid
2007: BET Awards 2007
2007: Kennedy Center Honors
2008: Nobel Peace Prize Concert
[edit]Autobiographies

Ross, Diana (October 1993). Secrets of a Sparrow. Random House. ISBN 0-679-42874-7.
Ross, Diana; Rosanne Shelnutt (ed.) (December 2002). Diana Ross: Going Back. New York: Universe. ISBN 0-7893-0797-9. (A scrapbook-style collection of photographs)
[edit]See also

Book: Diana Ross
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The Supremes portal
List of awards and nominations received by Diana Ross
List of best-selling music artists
List of number-one hits (United States)
List of artists who reached number one in the United States
List of number-one dance hits (United States)
List of artists who reached number one on the U.S. dance chart
[edit]References

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^ "Ross awarded life time achievement - The West Australian". Au.news.yahoo.com. 2012-02-13. Retrieved 2012-04-10.
^ Pynk, Mizz (2010-05-31). "Diana Ross Tour Getting Rave Reviews!! « Pink Celebrity". Pynkcelebrity.com. Retrieved 2012-04-10.
^ "A DIANA ROSS' Fan'Site ♥ Celebrating DIANA ROSS's Artistic Achievement ♥ A DIANA ROSS' Fan'Site". Dianaross.awardspace.com. 2012-02-05. Retrieved 2012-04-10.
^ "Diana Ross". ACL Live. Retrieved 2012-04-10.
^ Whitburn, Joel; The Billboard Book of Number 1 Hits, p. 207
^ Wilson, Mary (1986). Dreamgirl: My Life as a Supreme. Cooper Square Press. pp. 169–170. ISBN 0-8154-1000-X.
^ George, Nelson (1985). Where Did Our Love Go? The Rise and Fall of the Motown Sound. St. Martin's Press. pp. 80–81, 87. ISBN 0-312-01109-1.
^ Posner, Gerald. Motown : Music, Money, Sex, and Power, pg. 286.
^ Sharp, Kathleen (2003). Mr. and Mrs. Hollywood: Edie and Lew Wasserman and Their Entertainment Empire. Carroll & Graf Publishers. pp. 357–358. ISBN 0-7867-1220-1.
^ a b Harpole, Charles (2003). History of the American Cinema. Simon and Schuster. pp. 64, 65, 219, 220, 290. ISBN 0-684-80463-8.
^ a b Adrahtas, Thomas (2006). A Lifetime to Get Here: Diana Ross: The American Dreamgirl. AuthorHouse. pp. 163–167. ISBN 1-4259-7140-7.
^ Skow, John (October 30, 1978). "Nowhere Over the Rainbow". TIME (Time Warner). Retrieved 2007-11-06.
^ Moon, Spencer; George Hill (1997). Reel Black Talk: A Sourcebook of 50 American Filmmakers. Greenwood Press. xii. ISBN 0-313-29830-0.
^ Benshoff, Harry M.; Sean Griffin (2004). America on Film: Representing Race, Class, Gender, and Sexuality at the Movies. Blackwell Publishing. p. 88. ISBN 0-631-22583-8.
^ George, Nelson (1985). Where Did Our Love Go? The Rise and Fall of the Motown Sound. St. Martin's Press. p. 193.
^ Anderson, Susan Heller and Deirdre Carmody (September 12, 1986). "NEW YORK DAY BY DAY; Start at Ross Playground." New York Times. [1]
^ Ben Blackmore (2010-06-09). "World Cup Preview | Football Features". ESPN.co.uk. Retrieved 2010-06-30.
^ "The Top 10 Funniest World Cup Moments". MarketWatch. 2010-05-27. Retrieved 2010-06-30.
^ "Diana Ross and Lil' Kim's wild VMA moment", Lisa Costantini, August 21, 2002, Entertainment Weekly. Retrieved March 26, 2007.
^ Wilson, Mary. Dreamgirl, My Life As A Supreme and Taraborrelli, Randy, "Call Her Miss Ross, George, Nelson " Where Did Our Love Go?, The Rise & Fall Of Motown
^ Posner, Gerald. Motown : Music, Money, Sex, and Power, pg. 308–309. and Taraborrelli, Randy, "The Unauthorized Biography of Diana Ross.
^ Wilson, Mary. Dreamgirl: My Life as a Supreme., pg. 1–5. Taken from Wilson, Mary and Romanowski, Patricia (1986, 1990, 2000). Dreamgirl & Supreme Faith: My Life as a Supreme. New York: Cooper Square Publishers. ISBN 0-8154-1000-X.
^ Cohen, Jonathan (2006-12-13). "New Diana Ross Album To Get U.S. Release". Billboard.
^ ourdailyripa (2007-01-16). "Diana Ross on Live with Regis and Kelly". YouTube.
^ 2007 Tour: Diana Ross is divine in Oakland, California
^ 2007 European Tour
^ [http://www.michiganrockandrolllegends.com/legendary-michigan-songs-inductees
^ [http://www.michiganrockandrolllegends.com/mrrl-hall-of-fame/190-diana-ross
[edit]Further reading

Taraborrelli, J. Randy (2007-05-01). Diana Ross: A Biography. Citadel. ISBN 0-8065-2849-4.
[edit]External links


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Diana Ross (d. 26 Mart 1944, Detroit), ABD'li şarkıcı, müzik yapımcısı, oyuncu.
İşçi bir baba ile öğretmen bir annenin çocuğu olarak dünyaya gelen Diana Ross, çocukluğunu Alabama'da geçirdi. 14 yaşındayken ailece Detroit'e taşındılar. Ocak 1962'de Ross, "Cass Technical High School"dan mezun oldu. Ayn yıllarda müzik kariyerini oluşturmaya başlayan sanatçı, komşuları olan Mary Wilson, Florence Ballard, ve sonradan Supremes ve The Temptations adlarını alacak olan Betty McGlown ile yerel topluluklar oluşturup soul tarzda yoğunlaşan müzik çalışmaları yaptılar.
Çalışmaları, Beatles'dan sonra en çok satan ikinci sırada yer aldı. 1959 yılında başlayan Supremes macerasından sonra 1970'li yıllarda solo çalışmalarına başladı. 1972 yılında kendisine Oscar adaylığı getiren Lady Sings the Blues adlı filmde rol aldı. Yaptığı birçok albüm ve birçok şarkı haftalarca liste başında kaldı.
Çalışmalarıyla çeşitli ödüller kazanan Ross, 1971 Ağustos'unda menajeri Robert Ellis Silberstein ile evlendi. Daha sonra zengin bir emlakçıyla evlenip 1973 yılında boşandı ve New York'a taşındı. Her onar yıllık dönemde parlak çıkışlar yaptı. 1985 Ekim ayında evlendiği Norveçli işadamı Arne Næss Jr.'dan 2000 yılında boşandı.
İlk evliliğinden iki kız, ikinci evliliğinden iki oğlan çocuk sahibi oldu. Oğullarından birini bir kazada yitiren Diana Ross, 2002'de alkole sığınarak tedavi gördü. Michael Jackson'ın adına "Dirty Diana" şarkısını yaptığı sanatçı, bir yıl içinde 40'ın üstünde danışman-sekreter değiştirmek gibi bazı kaprisli davranışları ve skandallarıyla hep gündemde kaldı. (World) Upside Down adlı şarkısı 1980 yılında hit oldu. 1964 -2002 yılları arasında altı sinema filminde rol alan Ross, çeşitli televizyon programlarında da yer aldı. R&B, soul, pop, disko ve caz türleri daima repertuarında yer aldı. Diana Ross albümleri toplamda 100 milyondan fazla satmıştır.
Konu başlıkları [gizle]
1 Solo diskografisi
1.1 "Top Ten" Albümleri
2 Filmografisi
3 Televizyon Çalışmaları
4 Ayrıca bakınız
5 Dış bağlantılar
[değiştir]Solo diskografisi



1990 yılında
Ayrıntılı bilgi için (bkz: Diana Ross Diskografisi)
[değiştir]"Top Ten" Albümleri
The following albums reached the Top Ten on either the United States albums chart or the United Kingdom pop albums chart.
1970: Diana Ross (US R&B #1)
1971: I'm Still Waiting (a/k/a Surrender) (UK #10)
1973: Lady Sings the Blues (US #1)
1973: Touch Me in the Morning (US #5; UK #7)
1973: Diana & Marvin (with Marvin Gaye) (US #26; UK #6)
1976: Diana Ross (US #5; UK #4)
1976: Diana Ross' Greatest Hits (UK #2)
1979: 20 Golden Greats (UK #2)
1980: diana (US #2)
1981: Endless Love (US #9)
1993: One Woman: The Ultimate Collection (UK #1)
1995: Take Me Higher (UK #10)
[değiştir]Filmografisi

The T.A.M.I. Show (1964) (w/ The Supremes)
Beach Ball (1965) (w/ The Supremes)
Lady Sings the Blues (1972)
Mahogany (1975)
The Wiz (1978)
The Making and Meaning of We Are Family (2002) (documentary)
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[değiştir]Televizyon Çalışmaları

T.C.B. (1968) (w/ The Supremes)
G.I.T. on Broadway (1969) (w/ The Supremes)
Diana! (1971)
The Big Event: An Evening with Diana Ross (1977)
Diana Ross in Concert! (1979)
diana (1981)
Standing Room Only: Diana Ross (1981)
Motown 25: Yesterday, Today, Forever (1983)
For One And For All - Diana Ross Live! in Central Park (1983)
Diana Ross: Red Hot Rhythm and Blues (1987)
Diana Ross: Workin' Overtime (1989)
Diana Ross Live! The Lady Sings... Jazz & Blues: Stolen Moments (1992)
Out of Darkness (1994)
Super Bowl XXX (1996)
Double Platinum (1999)
VH1 Divas 2000: A Tribute to Diana Ross (2000)
[değiştir]Ayrıca bakınız

We are the World
The Muppet Show
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ABD 1976 yılı 1 numara şarkıları
ABD 1981 yılı 1 numara şarkıları
ABD 1980 yılı 1 numara şarkıları
ABD 1970 yılı 1 numara şarkıları
ABD 1968 yılı 1 numara şarkıları
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