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Diana Ross is an American singer, actress, record producer, and former model. She is the founder of the Supremes. After Motown was sold in 1968, she left to form Syndicated Sound Incorporated with her then husband, Barrett Strong. Their company later became known as Touchstone Records. Diana Ross was an influential figure in popular music and the civil rights movement throughout much of her career. Her debut album "Ross" did not produce any number of successful singles until "Reach Out and Touch Someone's Hand", but it went on to become her signature song. She later released "Surrender" in 1981, the album produced two number-one hits, "Upside Down", her last US number one to date, and "I'm Coming Out". She was the only artist to reach US number one with each of her first five solo albums. Diana Ross has sold more than 100 million records worldwide. She was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1988. She received both a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame and a Pioneer Award from the Rhythm and Blues Foundation in 1994. In 1997, she received the National Medal of Arts directly from U.S. President Bill Clinton. Diana Ross was born Diana Ernestine Earle on June 27, 1943 in Detroit, Michigan, the youngest child of Ernestine (née Griffin), a schoolteacher, and Vernon Ross, an engineer for General Motors. She is of English ancestry.. She has two sisters named Patricia and Lynn. She was raised by her mother after being orphaned at the age of six. During her childhood she lived in several cities throughout the United States as her father worked to relocate jobs to Detroit from cities such as Baltimore, St. Louis, Los Angeles, New Orleans and Cincinnati. Ross states that she was raped when she was twelve and a friend at thirteen in an interview during the 1980s. Ross's grandmother and her mother in the mid-1940s, after leaving her father in 1944, moved to Washington, D.C. when Ross was eight and later moved to Baltimore. Her mother noticed how attracted Ross was to both male and female singers, including Clara Ward (at whose Detroit performance she tearfully watched from backstage), Mahalia Jackson (with whom Ross would sing at one of Jackson's last performances), Dinah Washington, Aretha Franklin and Mary Wells who influenced Ross's own development as a singer growing up in the 1950s.. She also named blues singers Bessie Smith, Billie Holiday, Dinah Washington and Sam Cooke as influences. When Ross was twelve, her mother married another Detroit native, Robert Martin. Ross began to take singing much more seriously then and would practice around the house with her brother's record collection (his preference in music was gospel) for hours every day. She also began performing at very young ages at charitable events. A significant influence on Ross was her maternal uncle, Jimmy Mack (ne James Louis Johnson), who was an important jazz saxophonist. According to Ross, "he had an amazing sense of humor". cfa1e77820