1- Diana Ross was born on March 26, 1944, in Detroit, Michigan
2- In 1972, 2 years after going solo, she made her film debut as Billie Holiday in the biopic Lady Sings the Blues. She received an Oscar nomination for her performance, and the film soundtrack went to US #1.
3- Diana Ross is one of the most successful female singers of all time.
4- In 2016, Diana was honored with the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
5- Ross has sold more than 100 million records worldwide when her releases with the Supremes and as a solo artist are tallied.
6- Diana Ross’ parents were named Ernestine and Fred. Her mother was a school teacher and her father was a former Army soldier. Diana was raised in Detroit and one of her neighbor’s was fellow American singer song writer Smokey Robinson.
7- One of Diana Ross’ most successful hit songs from her early solo years was ‘Ain’t No Mountain High Enough’. The song reached number one and achieved Diana her first Grammy Award nomination.
8- Ross dated Gene Simmons, lead singer of the band Kiss, from 1980 to 1983.
9- In 1970, after leaving the Supremes, she released her first solo hits “Reach Out and Touch” and “Ain’t No Mountain High Enough.”
10- In 2002, the Supremes were reunited in the Return to Love Tour performing to an audience in Philadelphia.
11- Diana Ross has starred in the following movies: Lady Sings the Blues, Mahogany, The Wiz, Out of Darkness, and Double Platinum.
12- Ross’s older sister is American physician Barbara Ross-Lee.
13- She is the recipient of the Kennedy Center Honors in 2007.
14- Ross has three grandchildren.
15- In 1979, Ross released her first gold certified album The Boss.
16- Diana Ross was born the second of a total of six children
17- Ross’s grandfather John E. Ross, a native of Gloucester County, Virginia, was born to Washington Ross and Virginia Baytop. Virginia Baytop’s mother Francis “Frankey” Baytop was a former slave who had become a midwife after the Civil War.
18- Diana Ross was the lead singer of “The Supremes” during the 1960s
19- Diana Ross Was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1988.
20- On July 3, 2014, Ross was awarded the Ella Fitzgerald Award for “her extraordinary contribution to contemporary jazz vocals,” at the Festival International de Jazz de Montréal.
21- Diana Ross Awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President Obama in 2016.
22- On January 14, 1970, Diana Ross gave her final concert with the Supremes at the Frontier Hotel in Las Vegas.
23- In 2015, Ross appeared in the video for the song “How To Live Alone” performed by his son Evan Ross.
24- Diana Ross’ song, “Missing You,” was written in memory of her friend Marvin Gaye
25- Since Lena Horne passed away in 2010, Ross is the last surviving principal cast member of the original production of The Wiz.
26- Diana Ross Released her autobiography, Secrets of a Sparrow, in 1993.
27- Diana Ross was nominated several times for Grammy awards but her only wins were in association with the 1985 charity single “We Are The World,” which took home Song of the Year and Record of the Year.
28- In Britain, Diana Ross was recognized by the Guinness Book of World Records as being “The Most Successful Female Artist of All Time” – with over 70 hit singles to date.
29- As of 2017, Ross has an estimated net worth of $250 million, according to Celebrity Net Worth
