Ross To Be Honored at BET Awards

[Diamond Girl]

Diana Ross to Be Recognized for Lifetime Achievement
By Kyria Michele

Black Entertainment Television (BET) announced that they will recognize former Supremes lead singer and real life diva, singer/actress Diana Ross as the seventh recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Award.

During the fifty-year span of her career, Ross has received seven American Music awards and a Tony Award for her music special, An Evening with Diana Ross in 1977. She has also been nominated for twelve Grammy Awards and an Academy Award.

As the lead singer of the most influential girl group of all time, Ross and the Supremes garnered twelve number one hits including, Stop! In the Name of Love; Baby Love; You Can't Hurry Love; I Hear a Symphony and Somebody We'll Be Together.

Throughout the course of Ross' career, she has worked with many great artists, such as the late Marvin Gaye, Lionel Richie and Rod Stewart.

The Detroit native made her movie debut in the 1972 classic, Lady Sings the Blues, a biographical movie about the life of legendary blues singer, Billie Holiday. The very next year, Ross won Most Promising Newcomer-Female at the Globe Globes.

This was not the end of her movie career but was just the beginning. She has since appeared in Mahogany (1975), The Wiz (1978), Out of Darkness (1978) and Double Platinum (1999).

According to BET, past recipients to receive this honor were Whitney Houston (2001), Earth, Wind & Fire (2002), James Brown (2003), the Isley Brothers (2004), Gladys Knight (2005) and Chaka Khan (2006).

Alongside Ms. Ross at the BET Awards this year, it was announced that actor Don Cheadle will receive the Humanitarian Award for his efforts to put an end to genocide in Darfur.

The BET Awards will take place at the historic Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles, California and will air June 26th at 8pm (ET).

Comedienne Monique will host the event.

Source

Kia E. Jefferson, "Get Ready! BET Awards '07"

www.bet.com

[Diamond Girl]

I included this here because I think this award is mainly acknowledging her years with the Supremes and Motown.

Too bad the ladies aren't included in this honor, but when Gladys received her award, is she hadn't acknowledged the Pips, I'm not sure anyone else would have beyond the "beginning" of the video that preceded her portion of the award show.

[Kay]

jazzy said:

I included this here because I think this award is mainly acknowledging her years with the Supremes and Motown.

Too bad the ladies aren't included in this honor, but when Gladys received her award, is she hadn't acknowledged the Pips, I'm not sure anyone else would have beyond the "beginning" of the video that preceded her portion of the award show.

I would have chosen somebody else, Di gets too much credit

But seriously, I would expect BET to do Gladys and Dilema with their groups. They didn't do Ron without the Isleys so why switch it up??

[timmy84]

Why not Patti LaBelle? They still keep disrespecting my girl.

[timmy84]

And the Isleys tribute proved Ron wasn't a Diane or Gladys, he had Rudolph come out of retirement from his ministry one more time to sing with him. I was so happy when he did that. Ronald and Rudolph look alike actually now, have you noticed that?

[fantagurl]

kay said:

jazzy said:

I included this here because I think this award is mainly acknowledging her years with the Supremes and Motown.

Too bad the ladies aren't included in this honor, but when Gladys received her award, is she hadn't acknowledged the Pips, I'm not sure anyone else would have beyond the "beginning" of the video that preceded her portion of the award show.

I would have chosen somebody else, Di gets too much credit

But seriously, I would expect BET to do Gladys and Dilema with their groups. They didn't do Ron without the Isleys so why switch it up??

I agree with ya!!

[fantagurl]

timmy84 said:

Why not Patti LaBelle? They still keep disrespecting my girl.

Exactly!!! Besides that The young generation of today are fans of Miss Patti. Not to many young people are into Ross.

[timmy84]

Thank you, so I don't understand why they're honoring a Supreme. OK, so yeah she made some great moves as a solo artist (in terms of how many hits she had and all those movies and tour dates and stuff) but she's very ancient. People only know her as the one who grabbed Lil' Kim's breasts. I was a kid when Patti was still putting out new material and they were HITS! Also why aren't Labelle (Patti's group) in the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame? They were the first black female group to grace the cover of Rolling Stone and perform at the Metropolitan Opera House yet the Supremes are "the most influential", uh... yeah right.