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I’m Coming Out: The Anthem Diana Ross Was Afraid to Release
I’m Coming Out: The Anthem Diana Ross Was Afraid to Release The idea was born in a bathroom. Not a metaphorical bathroom — an actual restroom, in an actual nightclub, on Eighth Avenue in Manhattan, sometime in 1979. Nile Rodgers, the guitarist and co-founder of Chic, had gone club-hopping near Studio 54 and wandered into…
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Diana Ross: The Mother Behind the Diva — Five Children, Two Marriages, One Unbreakable Bond
For sixty years, the world has watched Diana Ross command stages, survive storms, and embody glamour itself. But ask the people closest to her what she is proudest of, and the answer is never the records or the awards. It is the five children she raised mostly on her own, the family she held together…
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How Diana Ross Created “Theme From Mahogany”: The Story Behind the Ballad That Outshone the Movie
In the autumn of 1975, Diana Ross was the biggest Black female star in the world — and she was in trouble. Her second film, “Mahogany,” was a mess behind the scenes: its director had been fired, its budget was ballooning, and its star was carrying the entire production on her shoulders, even designing two…
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The Untold Story of Diana Ross: The Diva Who Remixed Her Own Masterpiece and Sang Through a Lightning Storm
She has been called the Queen of Motown, the most successful female artist in music history, and the boss of bosses. But Diana Ross’s six-decade reign was not handed to her. It was built on a misspelled birth certificate, a hit song she despised, a best friend fired from the group she led, and an…