Biography
Singer Diana Ross One of the few has 2 stars at once on the Hollywood Walk of Glory (first - as a solo performer, the second - as a member of the "The Supremes" group). In total, in all his musical career, the artist recorded 57 studio albums and sold more than 150 million discs worldwide. In 1999, the channel "VH1" brought the performer of the song "I Love You" to the list of "100 of the greatest women in rock and roll".Childhood and youth
Diana Ross was born on March 26, 1944, in the city of Detroit, located on the border with Canada. Like the Father, Ross studied at the Detroit Technical Secondary School. She finished it in January 1962, on the semester earlier than classmates. Vocal Artist was fond of high school. Then she with her friends created a women's team "Primettes", renamed later in Supremes.
Teenage passion singing smoothly surrendered to work, and in 1960 the group signed a contract with the branch of Motown Records. In 1962, one of the vocalists went from Supremes, and the quartet turned into a trio. During the pair of months, the group could not achieve popularity and to change the situation, in 1963, the director of the record company made Ross a soloist, suggesting that a strong, velvet voice Diaan would help the team to gain glory.
Such a decision made its fruits: next year, the "WHERE DID OUR LOVE GO" composition reached the first place in the American Chart. The further period was extremely successful for Supremes. Their songs one after the other became hits. However, disagreements between girlfriends led to the fact that another participant, Florence Ballard, left the group, after which Cindy Berdong came to her place.
Despite the internal peripetics, Supremes recorded a couple of albums, singles from which at different times the national hit parades were headed, and eventually became famous for the whole of Europe. The leadership of the label understood that the bid should be made not to the group, but on the Lid-vocalist Diaan, so since 1968, the "promotion" of Ross begins as a solo performer.
In January 1970, the singer has played the last concert with the "Supremes". Without his primacy, the trio that survived not yet one personnel permutation was rearranged until 1977 and self-disgraced. Few people know, but at the first solo concerts of Ross presented another wards of the label "Motun" - the group "Jackson 5", which consisted of young Michael Jackson.
Music
Debut Solo Single Diaan "Reach Out And Touch" did not cause special delight among the listeners, but the second track "AINT NO MOUNTAIN HIGH ENOUGH" A week after the release was a regular hit of various hit parats. Single 1971 "I'm Still Waiting", without enthusiasm adopted at home, became a hit in the UK. Americans more like the songs "REACH OUT I'LL BE THERE", "REMEMBER ME" and "YOU'RE A SPECIAL PART OF ME".
A full-fledged solo album "Diana Ross" was released in 1970. A week after the release of the record, the twenty of America's best-selling pop albums rose into the twenty. In 1973, new works of the singer appeared on the shelves - the plate "Touch Me In The Morning" and a duet album with Marvin Gee "Diana & Marvin", which rose on 26 pop chart in the USA. There were rumors that, writing this fairly popular disk, the performers did not even crossed in the studio.
The next big luck of the singer is the track "Do You Know Where You're Going To", also becoming the leader of the American charts. In the second half of the 70s, Ross began to produce records, gradually resurrected from pop-coil and "ROSS" "Baby IT's Me" and "The Boss")
In the 1980s, Diana Ross was distinguished by the same small in the choice of potentially hit material and the same ability to fascinate millions of listeners. Constantly successful became the soundtrack recorded by it. The soundtrack for the picture "Endless Love" was published in 1981 and hit the TOP-10 in America.
After the gold album "The Boss", Diaan's discography was replenished with a platinum disk "Diana", which took over all other albums over the entire singer's career and became the number two in pop chart. Farmed by Nile Rogers and Bernard Edwards (Bernard Edwards), both from the Chic group.
The album was attended by two succeeded singles - "I'm coming out" and Funk-track "Upside Down", which was leading in the American chait-parade for a month. In 1981, the singer fulfilled his next American hit "Endless Love" ("Infinite Love"). True, not alone, but in a duet with another prominent performer - Lionel Richie. Although Richie and himself was an excellent composer, the ballad wrote Diana.
The second prominent song "WHEN YOU TELL ME THAT YOU LOVE ME" ("When you say that you love me") was recorded in 1991 and took 2nd place in Britain. According to musical critics, the death of Freddie Mercury and the subsequent reissue of the "Bohemian Rhapean" was prevented to lead the British Top Singla.
In 1994, "WHEN YOU TELL ME THAT YOU LOVE ME" singer Hulio Iglesias, with whom Diana, at one time recorded the composition "All Of You" (a video was shot on a song), and in 2005 - British boyfriends Bend "Westlife". In 2003, on the eve of its 60-year-old anniversary, the artist of the village for writing an autobiography, which I decided to call "Upside Down".
According to the performer, the whole truth about the last ten years of her life will be told in the book: about divorce, about a fault tour, about addiction to alcohol and the sensational arrest (for drunk driving). According to a press attache Diaan, this work will show that the stars are also not insured against disappointments, loneliness and all those losses and problems with which every day is facing every day every person.
Personal life
Personal life Ross has always been a favorite theme for representatives of the yellow press. Despite the attributed artist, the Roman with the head of the label "Motun" Berry Gordy, in April 1971, Dian became the wife of a businessman Robert Syliberstein.
Spouses lived together for five years, gave life to three daughters, after which they divorced without scandals and dividing property. At the beginning of the 80th performer of the song "When you", for a couple of months, met with the frontman of the group "KISS" by Gin Simmons.
By the time they were parting on the pages of newspapers, all sorts of assumptions about the nature of the relationship of the singer with Michael Jackson, whose mentor Dian was from their first joint speech. In October 1985, the charismatic vocalist married the Norwegian millionaire Arne Nessa-Jr., with whom the artist divorced in 2000. It is known that two sons were born in this marriage.
Diana Ross now
In 2017, the famous singer continues to give concerts. So, in July, the artist with his musical program, consisting of hitting the past years, visited Louisiana, in April spoke in New York, and in October it would sing for residents of Las Vegas. It is known that the performer of the song "I Will Survive" has accounts in Twitter and Facebook.
It is worth noting that social networks are not the only resource telling fans about the latest news from Ross. Materials (interviews, photographs from concerts) are also often published on various Internet portals and print publications, associated with the creative biography of the Hollywood Star.
Discography
- 1970 - "Diana Ross"
- 1970 - "Everything is everything"
- 1971 - "Surrender"
- 1973 - "Touch Me in the Morning"
- 1977 - "Baby It's Me"
- 1980 - "Diana"
- 1985 - "Eaten Alive"
- 1987 - "Red Hot Rhythm & Blues"
- 1989 - "Workin 'Overtime"