{"id":29125,"date":"2024-03-27T00:02:33","date_gmt":"2024-03-27T00:02:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/family-friends-share-birthday-wishes-for-diana-ross-as-she-turns-80\/"},"modified":"2024-03-27T00:02:33","modified_gmt":"2024-03-27T00:02:33","slug":"family-friends-share-birthday-wishes-for-diana-ross-as-she-turns-80","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/family-friends-share-birthday-wishes-for-diana-ross-as-she-turns-80\/","title":{"rendered":"Family & friends share birthday wishes for Diana Ross as she turns 80"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Kevin Mazur\/Getty Images for Academy Museum of Motion Pictures<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Legendary singer Diana Ross<\/strong> turned 80 on Tuesday, March 26, and the milestone birthday was marked by well-wishes from family and friends on social media.<\/span><\/p>\n

The singer\u2019s daughter\u00a0Tracee Ellis Ross<\/strong>\u00a0celebrated her mom with a collage of photos <\/span>on Instagram<\/strong><\/span><\/a>, writing, \u201cOh how I love you Mom. 80 incredible pictures of you in 80 seconds to celebrate your 80th birthday today.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

She also shared some facts about her mom that even she finds \u201cstaggering,\u201d including that from 1976 to 1985 Ross \u201cput out an album a year, did multiple tours, produced and starred in a variety of TV specials, shot <\/span>Mahogany<\/span><\/em> and <\/span>The Wiz<\/span><\/em>, produced her legendary 1983 Central Park concert with an estimated 800,000 attendees.”<\/span>\u00a0<\/p>\n

She adds, \u201cAmidst shattering records, breaking glass ceilings, and setting a new bar for style and glamour, we, her children, were always her priority. As I often say, ‘Diana Ross’ the beloved global icon is legendary but she doesn\u2019t hold a candle to my Mama.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

On her own <\/span>Instagram page<\/strong><\/span><\/a>, Ross shared an archival performance of a song called \u201cThat\u2019s Why I Call You My Friend,\u201d\u00a0calling it \u201ca birthday love letter.\u201d The performance prompted\u00a0comments from several celebrities, including Andy Cohen<\/strong>, who wrote, \u201cyou are LOVED,\u201d and Jody Watley<\/strong>, who added, \u201cHappy Birthday Blessings.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Ross also received birthday wishes from <\/span>The Temptations<\/strong><\/span><\/a>, who called Ross “a wonderful woman and a very talented friend”; the band Foreigner<\/strong>,\u00a0<\/strong><\/span>who shared<\/strong><\/span><\/a>\u00a0video of a cover Ross did of their hit \u201cI Want To Know What Love Is”; and\u00a0Sister Sledge<\/strong>, <\/span>who called her<\/strong><\/span><\/a>\u00a0a “timeless legend”\u00a0and “An absolute icon and trailblazer!”<\/span><\/p>\n

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Kevin Mazur\/Getty Images for Academy Museum of Motion Pictures Legendary singer Diana Ross turned 80 on Tuesday, March 26, and the milestone birthday was marked by well-wishes from family and friends on social media. The singer\u2019s daughter\u00a0Tracee Ellis Ross\u00a0celebrated her mom with a collage of photos on Instagram, writing, \u201cOhRead More →<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42,4,47,48],"tags":[7,134,317,114,315,316,142,106],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29125"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29125"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29125\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}