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Diana Ross Announces Tour Of the United States in 2010 :
Diana Ross has just announced a 2010 tour of the United States. The 64 year old musical icon be performing hits covering all stages of her career. The tour will start on May 15 in Boston, Massachusetts. This will be the first full scale tour for Diana since her 2004 tour. Diana promises "Breathtaking Costumes and Stage Designs" on the tour, which is being billed as the "More Today Than Yesterday" tour.
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Diana Ross announces tour dates :
The one and only Diana Ross will be making summer nights red hot with her “MORE TODAY THAN YESTERDAY” tour. The legendary icon will perform her greatest hits in a multi-city spectacular live show. Ms. Ross will be pulling out all the stops with breathtaking costumes and stage designs, along with a live string and horn section. The must see show kicks off in Boston , MA on May 15th, the tour runs thru June 12th.
Diana Ross has had a profound influence on American popular culture and has become an icon in the entertainment industry. She is an Academy Award nominated actress for her unforgettable role as Billie Holiday in Lady Sings The Blues, a Tony and Golden Globe winner, a bestselling author, winner of 8 American Music Awards and a recipient of The Kennedy Center Honors. Her reputation as a woman of great style and beauty has put her on the covers of hundreds of magazines. Ms. Ross has sold over 100 million records and recorded 18 #1 hits. Her music became the sound of young America in the ‘60s soon after she signed with Motown Records in 1961 with The Supremes. She embarked on her extraordinary solo career in 1970, and has not stopped since.
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Diana Ross Sets Seventeen Date North American Tour :
Diana Ross has announced a seventeen city North American tour starting on May 15 in Boston and ending June 12 in Saratoga, California. The More Today Than Yesterday Tour, named after the first single from her 2007 I Love You album, is her first major tour since 2004.
According to the press release, this will be a greatest hits tour and she "will be pulling out all the stops with breathtaking costumes and stage designs, along with a live string and horn section."
Ross has had eighteen number 1 records on the American charts including twelve with the Supremes and six as a solo artist.
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Diana Ross tour includes Fox show :
Motown's supreme diva, Diana Ross will bring her "More Today Than Yesterday" tour to the Fox Theater for a show May 29.
Tickets are $48, $58, $68 and $88, and go on sale at 10 a.m. March 20 at OlympiaEntertainment.com, the Joe Louis Arena and Fox Theatre box offices, Hockeytown Authentics in Troy, all Ticketmaster locations and Ticketmaster.com. To charge tickets by phone, call (800) 745-3000. For information, call (313) 471-6611.
 Ross, whose voice is on more than 18 No. 1 hits, started in Detroit at Motown Records when the Supremes (formerly the Primettes) were signed to the label in 1961. Ross embarked on a solo career, departing the Supremes, in 1970.
The "More Today Than Yesterday" tour promises to "pull out all the stops" with an array of costumes, an elaborate stage design, and a live orchestra backing up Ross.
The native Detroiter was nominated for an Academy Award for her role as Billie Holiday in the Berry Gordy-directed film "Lady Sings The Blues," is a Tony and Golden Globe winner, bestselling author, winner of 8 American Music Awards and a recipient of The Kennedy Center Honors.
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Diana Ross to Embark on North American Tour of More Today Than Yesterday on May 15 :
Legendary performer Diana Ross will embark on a North American tour of More Today Than Yesterday this spring, beginning with an engagement Boston's Citi Performing Arts Center on May 15. The 17-city tour will also include appearances at Radio City Music Hall (May 19), the Chicago Theatre (May 27) and Los Angeles NOKIA Theatre (June 9) and will conclude with a performance at Mountain Winery in Saratoga, CA on June 12.
Ross won a Special Tony Award in 1977 for An Evening With Diana Ross. Additionally, she received an Academy Award nomination for her portrayal of Billie Holiday in Lady Sings The Blues. Among Ross' additional honors are eight American Music Awards, a Kennedy Center Honor, and a Golden Globe Award.
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Here Comes The Boss: Diana Ross Is Going On Tour :
 While Cher and Bette Midler have been doing there thing in Las Vegas another diva, Diana Ross, had been mostly silent. Some of us wondered if she was content watching some of her children, notably Tracee Ellis Ross and Evan Ross, play the fame game. (Yes I know Rhonda’s in show business too.) However it turns out that Mama isn’t quite finished yet—even though she has technically reached retirement age, 65. Entertainment Weekly.com is reporting that the one and only Miss Ross will embark on her “More Today Than Yesterday” tour starting May 15th—hitting 17 cities in May and June of 2010.
There’s no denying that this is an opportunity to see a legend—who knows how many more chances we’ll have to see her live. I’ve got to admit I’m kind of curious. But that curiosity is going to cost me since concert tickets generally run on the North side of 100 bucks. . Anyway, I’m glad she’s not trying to play stadiums but has chosen more manageable venues like Radio City Music Hall in New York City and the Fox Theater in Detroit among others. Miss Ross will also hit the casino circuit, at least on the East coast, with stops in Atlantic City and Foxwoods.
Okay, don’t kill me for saying this, but I do wonder if she still has enough die-hard fans to fill the venues. I still think about how folks were willing to risk being struck by lightening back in the day when a rainstorm struck during her Central Park concert back in 1983. The last time she toured was in 2007 and that seemed to have gone okay. But there was the “Return to Love” a few years back that had to be canceled—some say because of lackluster ticket sales. Now that concert tickets cost so much fans have become more discerning about the investments their willing to make but I do hope there are many willing to pony up for Miss Ross simply because of who she is.
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Diana Ross Biography (Short bio on Diana Ross) :
Best known as the the lead singer of the popular 1960s singing group The Supremes, Diana Ross was born on March 26, 1944, in Detroit, Michigan, the second of six children born to Fred and Ernestine. She is of African American and Native American descent. After being raised in housing projects for most of the late 1940s and early 1950s, Diana started singing in the gospel choir of a Baptist church. With friends Mary Wilson, Florence Ballard and Barbara Martin, she formed a vocal group, The Primettes, at age 15. After Barbara had departed the group, the remaining three girls inked a deal with Motown Records and were renamed The Supremes. Ross wasn't picked to become the group's lead singer until Motown honcho Berry Gordy decided that the time was exactly right, and from then on he described the group as "Diana Ross and the Supremes." From 1965 to 1969 the group had a string of #1 records. In late 1969 Gordy announced that Ross would be leaving the group for a solo career. In the third week of 1970 she played her last concert with The Supremes and started working with  the songwriting team of Nick Ashford and Valerie Simpson. Ross' first two songs by the team reached #1 on both the pop and R&B charts, justifying her move. Prior to starting a family of her own, she won the title role in the Billie Holiday biopic Lady Sings the Blues (1972), which was extremely successful at the box office, and had the distinction of being nominated for an Academy Award for her first film. The movie's soundtrack reached #1 on the U.S. charts. Despite fame and fortune, her next two big films,Mahogany (1975) and The Wiz (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," she was stunned when her singing partner and friend, Florence Ballard, died after complications from a combination of alcohol abuse and long-term depression, which led to cardiac arrest. Ballard was only 32 years old and Ross was devastated by the loss.
After recovering from Ballard's death, Ross went on to focus on her singing career and continued 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 contracts with various record companies across the globe, and formed her own production company. The following year she released "Silk Electric," on which she sang "Muscles," a song written and produced by Michael Jackson.
After she sang a tribute song dedicated to the late Marvin Gaye, Ross scored 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 an eight-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 a best-selling author with her first and only children's book, "When You Dream," which featured a CD with four songs that were dedicated to the book. That same year she was declared by the Guinness Book of World Records to be 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 honors, she came back to the studio in 1999 with "Every Day Is A New Day," and the song reached the UK Top 10. The following year, with Mary Wilson--the only other surviving original Supremes member--she planned to book a Supremes reunion tour, but this was eventually canceled.
She was arrested in 2002 in Tucson, Arizona, for driving under the influence and after pleading guilty was sentenced to two days in jail, 36 hours of counseling and one year probation. Today she is hard at work finishing her forthcoming book, "Upside Down: Wrong Turns, Right Turns and the Road Ahead."
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