Ross launched an acting career in the early seventies with notable roles in Mahogany, The Wiz, earning an Academy Award nomination for her role in the Billie Holliday biopic Lady Sings The Blues. Diana Ross left the group in 1969 to launch a solo career, issuing her self-titled debut album the following year, and built up a string of hits such as Ain’t No Mountain High Enough, I’m Still Waiting and Touch Me In The Morning. The Supremes also scored Motown’s first UK Number 1 in 1964 with Baby Love. Diana Ross first came to prominence as lead singer of The Supremes, who became Motown’s most successful act during the 1960s, and the most successful all-female act in US chart history, with a then-record breaking twelve Number 1 singles on the Billboard chart. Diana Ross is an American singer, actress, and record producer, born Diane Ernestine Ross on March 26, 1944, and raised in Detroit, Michigan.
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