As previously mentioned over at the Dolores Delargo Towers Museum of Camp, it is the seventy-fifth anniversary today of the birth of the one-and-only Miss Diana Ross!
Confirming just why Miss Ross is [as if any question could be raised to the contrary] a gay icon - here's the lady herself, doing what she does best:
Facts about Diana Ross:
- With Mary Wilson, Florence Ballard and Betty McGlown, she was a member of "The Primettes" when they auditioned for Motown; Berry Gordy agreed to sign them as long as they agreed to change the band's name to The Supremes.
- In 1993, the Guinness Book of World Records declared her the most successful female music artist in history, having had more hits than any female artist in the charts in the United States and United Kingdom, with a career total of 70 hit singles with her work with the Supremes and as a solo artist.
- She was born Diane but due to an admin error, her name became Diana.
- She was nominated twelve times for a Grammy without ever winning, but received the Lifetime Achievement Award in 2012.
- The $20 million deal she signed when she left Motown for RCA in 1981 was, at the time, the most lucrative deal known in the history of music.
- She received an Oscar nomination for her performance in the film Lady Sings the Blues in 1972.
- During filming for her other star-vehicle film Mahogany, not only was the original director Tony Richardson sacked and replaced by Berry Gordy, but Miss Ross argued so much with Gordy that she quit prematurely, leaving his secretary to act as her body double; the film was not a success.
That she never won a Grammy is quite surprising.
ReplyDeleteCriminal, I'd say. Jx
DeleteShe might be a difficult person but her music has been an integral part of the sound track of my life.
ReplyDeleteI might not love her but I love her music
Amen, sister! Jx
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