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Diana Ross: The Lady Is A Winner

David Nathan, Blues & Soul, April 1973

NO ONE is more aware than the lady herself of the totally negative attitude prevalent amongst quite a large number of people when it was first announced that Diana Ross would portray Billie Holiday in her first film, Lady Sings The Blues based on the tragic life of the jazz singer, who was at the peak of her career in the late thirties and throughout the forties.

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