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Diana Ross sings most of her many hits at Nokia Theater concert for Herbalife Foundation
We had pretty damned good seats for last night’s Diana Ross concert at the Nokia Theatre but I clearly don’t have a damned good camera.
I need to upgrade soon!
Well, who had time for pictures anyway – I was too busy dancing!
The concert was a private event for the Herbalife Foundation so it was not your usual Diana Ross crowd. My friends and I talked after the show about not only the difference in the crowd (many people loved it, others looked bewildered) but also in the performance of Miss Ross.
Let me say this: Her voice is as good as it ever was, she is a total professional and it was a wonderful show.
But it was a corporate gig so there was something a little rote about it even if there was FIVE costume changes! I’ve been to five previous Diana Ross concerts and I know the difference between when she is playing for the fans who worship her and for an audience for whom this is part of a larger convention.
She kicked off the show with I’m Coming Out then launched into a series of Supremes hits including Baby Love, Stop! In the Name of Love, Love Child, Where Did Our Love Go? You Can’t Hurry Love and My World is Empty Without You.
The bulk of the show were her many, many solo hits including Love Hangover, Touch Me in the Morning, Upside Down, Do You Know Where You’re Going To?, I Will Survive, Why Do Fools Fall In Love?, It’s My House, The Boss, Ease on Down the Road, and Ain’t No Mountain High Enough.
Miss Ross did two numbers from Lady Sings the Blues but did not do my favorite, Good Morning Heartache. Also missing from the show were her hits Missing You, Endless Love, It’s My Turn and Chain Reaction.
There was virtually no chatter and no encore but you know what? I had a BLAST!
The next time Miss Ross tours, I will be there!
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Ken says:
Thanks for the birds eye take on the concert, I have been a fan of her for many decades. That said, her inter-action with the audience was always one of those X factors that made her performances special, and she has pulled back from this in recent years, and it does take some of the magic away. In 2010, you wrote the following about Donna Summer, “What I really loved about Donna was that, unlike a remote Diana Ross a few weeks ago at the Nokia, Miss Summer was completely engaging and connected to the audience mentioning how her daughter was playing at the Roxy last night, what each song meant to her and saying lovely things about the music of The Carpenters”. For the record I have seen Donna at fundraisers, and she is just as engaging.
Lionhart says:
Sorry, Greg. I love her voice and talent. However, I cannot condone the disrespect that she has given to all the people who got her to where she is. She has become an anti-diva in my opinion.
TRISTAN MacMANUS ROCKS
Mic says:
I am really shocked when I read things like Lionhart wrote about Diana Ross. Who are these people she so disrespected? Mary, Florence, and Cindy? Her cab drivers? I mean how silly can you be to take rumor (generated by jealousy) as fact and swear by it?? Diana Ross is and was human. To denigrate her for something that may or may not have happen 40 yrs ago is ridiculous. African American women like Diana Ross who don’t conform to type are treated with suspicion. She wasn’t a overweight screamer (Aretha, Patti), or overtly sexual (Beyonce, Tina). So people would ask the question, who does she think she is??? It grew from there. Unfair to say the least.
Straus says:
I don’t understand why people, go out of their way to be negative. Yes people like Lionhart. He or she should have not written anything at all. I bet he or she did not even go to the concert. Just had to say something negative. People like he or she, have little in their lives to make them happy. Miss Ross has survived and is entitled to really do what she wants to do. I am sure she was well paid for doing this concert. Having saying this; her talent is well worth any amount she received. I saw her last year in concert, and she delivers the goods. She sang for about 90 minutes, of non-stop singing. Isn’t this what people go to see…
joe says:
Diana Ross is a sweetheart and a lovely person. Beleive me she has not got to where she is on her talent and person. If she was 1/2 the BS a few try to hang on to for years she would have died out years ago.
Yes she is a Diva (Divine, Inspiretional, Vivecious, Articulate ) a first CLASS one that is!
Haters to the end of the line, take your bitterness, elsewhere, it will not work.
Love, Love, Love Ms. Ross!!!
Tony Guerra says:
The one and only, The Boss Ms. Diana Ross will forever rain Supreme!!!
The Raven says:
There is more to Herbalife than meets the eye. Check out http://www.theravenreport.com/2012/03/27/darkness-and-deceit-at-herbalife-nokia-theater-gala/ and see for yourself.
brett says:
to bad shes gotten so big for her pants she puts them on on leg at a time like everyone else