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I was brought up in this part of Detroit that they used to call the ghetto.

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Diana Ross
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: March 26
Actor
Composer
Film Producer
Record Producer
Singer
Detroit
Michigan
Diana Ernestine Earle Ross
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