The Supremes

Genres:	Holiday & Seasonal, R&B / Soul
Descriptive "tags":	soul, motown
Decades Active:	1960s, 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, 2000s
Artist Compilations:	Diana Ross & The Supremes
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Biography

America's most successful female vocal group of all time was formed by four Detroit schoolgirls in the late 50s. Diana Ross (Diane Ernestine Ross, 26 March 1944, Detroit, Michigan, USA), Betty Hutton, Florence Ballard (b. 30 June 1943, Detroit, Michigan, USA, d. 22 February 1976) and Mary Wilson (b. 6 March 1944, Greenville, Mississippi, USA) named themselves the Primettes in tribute to the local male group, the Primes - who themselves found fame in the 60s as the Temptations. Having issued a solitary single on a small local label, the Primettes were signed to Berry Gordy's Motown Records stable, where they initially found public acceptance hard to find. For more than two years, they issued a succession of flop singles, despite the best efforts of top Motown writer/producer Smokey Robinson to find them a suitable vehicle for their unsophisticated talents. Only when Diana Ross supplanted Florence Ballard as the group's regular lead vocalist, at Gordy's suggestion,...

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