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Diana Ross was born on the 26th of March 1944, in Detroit, Michigan. Her family lived at 635 Belmont Street in the North End section of the city before moving to the Brewster-Douglass Housing Projects when she turned fourteen in 1958.
At fifteen, Ross joined the Primettes after Paul Williams brought them to manager Milton Jenkins' attention. The group signed with Motown on the 15th of January 1961 and changed their name from Primettes to Supremes because Florence Ballard chose it as the only option not ending in ette.
Her film Lady Sings the Blues earned critical acclaim as Billie Holiday and won a Golden Globe Award while receiving an Academy Award nomination for Best Actress. She later received another Golden Globe nomination for Out of Darkness in 1994 and became the first African-American woman to co-host the Academy Awards alongside John Huston, Burt Reynolds, and David Niven in April 1974.
Ross signed with RCA Records on the 18th of May 1981 after receiving only $250,000 severance from Motown despite over twenty years there. The seven-year contract worth $20 million gave her complete production control, making it music history's most expensive recording deal at the time.
During her stay at Arizona's Canyon Ranch Health Resort she was arrested for driving the wrong way on a one-way street in Tucson and failing a breathalizer test. She was sentenced to forty-eight hours in jail in 2004 and served time near her Greenwich, Connecticut home.
Diana Ross received the Presidential Medal of Freedom from President Obama on the 22nd of November 2016, which is the nation's highest civilian honor. In February 2012 she won her first Grammy Award for Lifetime Achievement after thirteen nominations without winning between 1971 and 2022.