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Biography: Best known as the backup & lead singer of the popular 1960s rock group, The Supremes, she was born as Diane Ernestine Earle Ross on March 26, 1944, in Detroit, Michigan, the second of six children born to Fred and Ernestine. After being raised in housing projects for most of the late 1940s and early 1950s, she started singing in the gospel choir of a Baptist church, just before her biggest dream was to be joined with the Primettes with friends Mary Wilson, Florence Ballard and Barbara Martin, at age 15. After Barbara had departed the Primettes, the remaining 3 inked a deal with Motown and were renamed, the Supremes. Ross wasn`t considered to become the group`s lead singer, until Berry Gordy decided that it was the right time to do this, and from then on, he described the group as "Diana Ross and the Supremes." From 1967 to 1969, the group had several #1s. In late 1969, Gordy announced that Ross would be leaving the group for a solo career. On the third week of 1970, she played her last concert with the Supremes and started working with the songwriting team of Ashford and Simpson. Her first two hits by them reached #1 on both the pop and R&B charts, justifying her move. Prior to starting a family of her own, she won the role of Billie Holiday in the film Lady Sings the Blues (1972), which was quite successful at the box office. She was nominated for an Academy award in this, her first movie, and the soundtrack reached #1 on the U.S. charts. Despite fame and fortune, her next two big films, Mahogany (1975), and _Wiz, The (1978)_ , didn`t meet with the same success. However, she had a #1 hit single with `Mahogany`, to make up for it. In February 1976, just before another #1 hit with "Love Hangover," her world fell apart when her singing partner and friend, Florence Ballard, died after complications from alcohol and long-term depression, which led into cardiac arrest. Ballard was only 32-years-old, and Ross was very devastated by the loss.

After recovering from the loss of Florence, she went on to focus on more songs and continued to having more #1 songs, including "Upside Down". The following year, she performed the theme song from Endless Love (1981), which was composed by Lionel Richie. That same year, she left Motown Records and signed a bunch of record contracts, all over the world, also she formed her own production company. The following year, in 1982, she released "Silk Electric," on which she sang "Muscles," a song that was written and produced by Michael Jackson.

After she sang a tribute song dedicated to the late Marvin Gaye, she gained another #1 song in 1986 in the UK with "Chain Reaction," which brought back her days as the member of the Supremes, and was written and produced by the Bee Gees. Unlike the song she sang when Florence died, this song was about how she became accustomed to Marvin, over the years. After a 8-year absence, in 1989, she came back to Motown. Ross had gained more fame through concert appearances over the years, and in April 1993, she became the best-selling author of her first and only children`s book, "When You Dream," which featured a CD with 4 songs that were dedicated to the book. That same year, she was honoured by the Guinness Book of Records as the most successful female singer of all times. Two years later, she was honored with the Heritage Award for Lifetime Achievement on the Soul Train Awards. After receiving those great honors, she came back to the studio in 1999 with "Every Day is A New Day," and her song reached the UK Top 10. The following year, alongside Mary Wilson, the only other surviving member, she was planning to book a Supreme reunion tour, but this was cancelled.

She was arrested in 2002 and sentenced to two days in jail, 36 hours of counseling, and one year probation after a no-contest plea for driving under the influence in Tuscon, Arizona. Today she is hard at work finishing her forthcoming book, "Upside Down: Wrong Turns, Right Turns and the Road Ahead."

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