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A diva of pop, soul, disco and the Motown sound, Diana Ross is one of the most prolific talents to come out of Detroit. Ross is a 12-time Grammy-nominated singer, Oscar-nominated actress, and producer. With a total of six number-one hits and 12 Billboard top 10 singles in the U.S., she has recorded 57 albums. In total, Ross has sold more than 100 million albums both as a member of the Motown group, The Supremes, and as a solo artist.

Diana Ross was born in Detroit on March 26, 1944. Her mother named her Diane but a typo on the birth certificate led to the name Diana. She spent her teenage years with her family in the low-income Brewster-Douglas Projects. Fellow Motown star Smokey Robinson was a friend from her former North End neighborhood. While attending Cass Technical High School, Ross joined a music group named the Primettes with girls from her neighborhood. The Primettes were a sister group to the male group the Primes, later to be known as The Temptations. The girl group consisted of Ross, Mary Wilson, Florence Ballard and Betty McGlown. Barbara Martin replaced McGlown then left the group in 1962. 

Smokey Robinson brought the Primettes to Motown Records and introduced them to its founder, Berry Gordy. After they finished high school, Ross, Wilson, Martin and Ballard signed a contract with Motown and adopted the name the Supremes. Gordy made Ross the lead singer of the group and in 1967, Ballard, the other potential lead vocal, was replaced by Cindy Birdsong. That same year, the group’s name changed to Diana Ross and the Supremes indicating Ross’ role as the center of the trio.

After “Let Me Go the Right Way” became the Supremes’ first song to make national charts, the group joined the Motortown, or Motown, Revue. Some of their greatest hits were “Baby Love” (1964), “Stop in the Name of Love” (1965), and “Can’t Hurry Love” (1966). Their success was unprecedented, with the Supremes recording 10 number one hit singles between August

The discography of American rhythm and blues singer Diana Ross, the former lead singer of the Supremes, consists of 26 studio albums and 116 singles. Throughout her career, Ross has sold over 100 million records worldwide.Billboard ranked her as the 47th Greatest Artist of all time and the 11th Greatest Hot 100 Female Artist of all time. In 1993, Guinness World Records crowned Ross as the "most successful female artist in music history". Her 11th studio album "Diana" remains the best-selling album of her career, selling more than 10 million copies and album-equivalent units around the world.

27 of her singles reached the Billboard top 40 in the US, 12 of them the Billboard top 10, and six of those reaching number one, placing her in tenth place among the top female solo performers who have reached the top spot there. In the UK, she amassed a total of 47 top 40 singles with 20 of them reaching the top 10 and two of those reaching number one. In the US, 17 albums reached the Billboard top 40, four of those the top 10, and one album topping the chart. In the UK, 26 albums reached the top 40, eight of those the top 10, and one album topping the chart.

Ross sang lead on a top 75 hit single at least once every year from 1964 to 1997 in the UK, a period of 33 consecutive years and a record for any performer. She is among a select group of artists whose albums and singles combined have spent more than 1000 weeks on the official UK charts, with her singles totalling 569 weeks (10.9 years) and her albums spending a total of 634 weeks (12 years) on the charts. As of 2024 Diana Ross has 36 albums certified by the BPI (10 Silver, 19 Gold, 6 Platinum,

American singer (born 1944)

This article is about the American singer. For the English children's author, see Diana Ross (author).

Diana Ross (born March 26, 1944) is an American singer and actress. Known as the "Queen of Motown Records", she was the lead singer of the vocal group the Supremes, who became Motown's most successful act during the 1960s and one of the world's best-selling girl groups of all time. They remain the best-charting female group in history, with a total of 12 number-one pop singles on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100.

Following her departure from the Supremes in 1970, Ross embarked on a successful solo music career with the release of her eponymous debut solo album. She went on to release 26 studio albums, including Touch Me in the Morning (1973), Diana Ross (1976), Diana (1980), Why Do Fools Fall in Love (1981) and Swept Away (1984). Her singles "Ain't No Mountain High Enough", "Touch Me in the Morning", "Theme from Mahogany (Do You Know Where You're Going To)", "Love Hangover", "Upside Down" and "Endless Love", all topped the Billboard Hot 100, making her the female solo act with the most number-one songs in the United States at the time. Her success continued throughout the 1980s and 1990s with global hits, including "I'm Coming Out", "Why Do Fools Fall in Love", "All of You", "Chain Reaction", "If We Hold on Together", and "When You Tell Me That You Love Me".

Ross has also achieved mainstream success and recognition as an actress. Her first role was her Golden Globe Award-winning and Academy Award-nominated portrayal of Billie Holiday in the film Lady Sings the Blues (1972), which made her the first African-American actress to receive an Academy Award nomination for a debut film performance. The film's soundtrack became her only solo album to reach number-one on the U.S. Billboard 200 chart. She also starred in two other feature films, Mahogany (1975) and The Wiz (1978), and later appe

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Who Is Diana Ross?

Diana Ross began singing with friends as a teenager, and eventually formed the groundbreaking 1960s trio the Supremes, going on to have hits like "Come See About Me" and "You Can't Hurry Love." Ross left for a solo career in 1969, later reaching No. 1 with hits like "Ain't No Mountain High Enough" and "Love Hangover." She starred in the films Mahogany and Lady Sings the Blues as well, earning an Oscar nomination for the latter. Despite personal and professional ups and downs, Ross has withstood the test of time as a performer with a career that spans more than four decades.

Early Life and The Supremes

Ross was born on March 26, 1944, in Detroit, Michigan. Developing a reputation as an accomplished performer, Ross began singing in the group the Primettes with friends Mary Wilson, Florence Ballard and Barbara Martin as a teenager. Martin eventually dropped out, but the remaining members of the group went on to become the internationally successful 1960s R&B and pop trio the Supremes (later named Diana Ross and the Supremes).

Signed to Motown Records by famed producer and label founder Berry Gordy Jr., in 1961 the Supremes scored their first No. 1 hit with "Where Did Our Love Go?" (1964). The trio then broke music records by having a streak of four additional singles top the charts — "Baby Love" (1964), "Come See About Me" (1964) "Stop! In the Name of Love" (1965) and "Back in My Arms Again" (1965) — thus becoming the first U.S. group ever to have five songs in a row to reach No 1.

In all the group scored a monumental 12 No. 1 hits, including "I Hear a Symphony" (1965), "You Can't Hurry Love" (1966), "The Happening" (1967), "Love Child" (1968) and "Someday We'll Be Together" (1969). They thus established a phenomenal record, becoming the American vocal group with the most