Diana Ross

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Diana Ross (born Diane Ernestine Earle Ross on March 26, 1944) is a twelve-time Grammy Award-nominated American singer, songwriter and actress, whose musical repertoire spans R&B, soul, pop, disco, and jazz.

During the 1970's and into the early to mid 1980's, Ross became the most successful female artist of the rock era, while crossing over into film, television and Broadway theatre. Over the course of her career, Ross has been awarded a Tony Award for the music special An Evening with Diana Ross (1977), seven American Music Awards, and the Golden Globe Award for New Star Of The Year - Actress for her leading role in the Billie Holiday biographical film Lady Sings the Blues (1972). Additionally, Ross has been nominated for twelve Grammy Awards and an Academy Award for Best Actress. She was also recently honored by The Kennedy Center. She has sold 85+ million singles & albums during the course of her forty-five-year career.

In 1976, Billboard magazine named her the female entertainer of the century. Guinness World Records declared Diana Ross as the most successful female music artist of the 20th century with a total of eighteen American number-one singles: twelve as lead singer of The Supremes and six as a solo artist. Ross was the first female solo artist to score six number-ones. She is also one of the few artists to have two stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame—one as a solo artist and the other as a member of the Supremes.

In 1999, as a solo artist, she was ranked #38 on VH1's "The 100 Greatest Women in Rock and Roll", while The Supremes ranked #16.