Diana Ross

During the 1960s, Diana helped shape the sound of popular music and the Motown Sound as lead singer of The Supremes before leaving for a solo career in the beginning of 1970. Since the beginning of her career with The Supremes and as a solo artist, Diana Ross has sold more than 100 million albums.

During the 1970s and through the mid 1980s, Ross was the most successful female artist of the rock era, while crossing over into film, television and Broadway winning a Tony Award for her one-woman show, An Evening with Diana Ross in 1977, and being nominated for twelve Grammy Awards and an Academy Award for Best Actress for her 1972 role as Billie Holiday in Lady Sings the Blues. She was also recently honored by The Kennedy Center.

In 1976, Billboard magazine named her the "Female Entertainer of the Century." The "Guinness Book Of World Records" declared Diana Ross as the most successful female music artist of the 20th century with a total of eighteen American number-one singles: twelve as lead singer of The Supremes and six as a soloist. Ross was the first female solo artist to score six number-ones. She is also one of the few artists to have two stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame--one as a solo artist and the other as a member of the trio "The Supremes." ... Source Wikipedia.com

Hits included... Baby Love, Stop In The Name Of Love, You Can't Hurry Love, Chain Reaction, Upside Down, Ain't No Mountain High Enough, My Old Piano, Touch Me In The Morning and many many more.

Jacky Webbe is the UK's No.1 tribute to the Queen of Motown. Her 1 x 60 minute set encapsulates the essence of Diana brilliantly, performing all of the stars greatest and most memorable hits in a spell binding show that has left venues up and down the UK full to capacity.