Ross was named the "Female Entertainer of the Century" by Billboard in 1976. She also starred in two other feature films, Mahogany (1975) and The Wiz (1978), and later appeared in the television films Out of Darkness (1994), for which she was nominated for a Golden Globe Award, and Double Platinum (1999). 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) she also recorded its soundtrack, which became a number one hit on the U.S. She achieved several more global number-one singles, "Upside Down" (1980), " Endless Love" (1981), " Chain Reaction" (1986), " If We Hold on Together" (1988) and " When You Tell Me That You Love Me" (1991). Ross further released numerous top-ten hits on various Billboard charts throughout the 1970s, '80s, and '90s. She continued her successful solo career by mounting elaborate record-setting world-wide concert tours, starring in a number of highly watched prime-time television specials, and releasing hit albums like Touch Me in the Morning (1973), Mahogany (1975), and Diana Ross (1976) as well as their number-one hit singles, " Touch Me in the Morning", " Theme from Mahogany (Do You Know Where You're Going To)", and " Love Hangover", respectively. It was followed with her second solo album, Everything Is Everything (1970), which spawned her first UK number-one single " I'm Still Waiting". number-one hit " Ain't No Mountain High Enough" and music anthem " Reach Out and Touch (Somebody's Hand)". Her eponymous debut solo album featured the U.S. įollowing departure from the Supremes in 1970, Ross embarked on a successful solo career in music, film, television and on stage. History, with a total of twelve number-one hit singles on the US Billboard Hot 100, including " Where Did Our Love Go", " Baby Love", " Come See About Me", and " Love Child". They remain the best-charting female group in She rose to fame as 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. When using a search engine such as Google, Bing or Yahoo check the safe search settings where you can exclude adult content sites from your search results Īsk your internet service provider if they offer additional filters īe responsible, know what your children are doing online.Diana Ernestine Earle Ross (born March 26, 1944) is an American entertainer and actress. Use family filters of your operating systems and/or browsers Other steps you can take to protect your children are: More information about the RTA Label and compatible services can be found here. Parental tools that are compatible with the RTA label will block access to this site. We use the "Restricted To Adults" (RTA) website label to better enable parental filtering. Protect your children from adult content and block access to this site by using parental controls. PARENTS, PLEASE BE ADVISED: If you are a parent, it is your responsibility to keep any age-restricted content from being displayed to your children or wards. Furthermore, you represent and warrant that you will not allow any minor access to this site or services. This website should only be accessed if you are at least 18 years old or of legal age to view such material in your local jurisdiction, whichever is greater. You are about to enter a website that contains explicit material (pornography).