Diana Ross was born on March 26,1944 in Detroit Michigan. She was the second oldest of Ernestine and Fred Ross. She was originally named Diane but a clerical error resulted in her name being recorded as Diana on her birth certificate. Ross and her family originally lived in the North End section of Detroit near Highland Park, Michigan where she was neighbors with singer Smokey Robinson. When Ross was seven, her mother contracted tuberculosis, causing her and her family to move to Bessemer, Alabama. After her mother recovered, her family moved back to Detroit. Ross began singing with Mary Wilson, Florence Ballard, and Barbara Martin in a female group called “The Primettes” and were later called “The Supremes” after Martin left. The Supremes
