Explore: Supremes (musical Group)

The Supremes were an American girl group formed in Detroit, Michigan, in 1959 as the Primettes. The premier act of Motown Records during the 1960s, the

a 1981 Broadway musical loosely based on the lives and careers of the Supremes. Dreamgirl covers the Diana Ross-led years of the group. In 1990 Wilson

James Brown, Jackie Wilson, and others, and particularly The Supremes, as the musical follows the story of a young Black female singing trio from Chicago

female group the Supremes. She sang on 16 top 40 singles with the group, including ten number-one hits. After being removed from the Supremes in 1967

penultimate performance with fellow Supremes members Mary Wilson and Cindy Birdsong. At the conclusion of the show, new Supremes lead singer Jean Terrell was

control of the group over to Wilson. With Terrell, the group reverted to the name "the Supremes;" known unofficially at first as "the New Supremes", and in

the Return To Love Supremes reunion tour, in which Diana allowed each of them to lead one of the classic Supremes songs. The group celebrated their 20th

the idea of reforming the Supremes, to which she agreed, and asked Birdsong and Mary Wilson to join the new Supremes group. Wilson declined, continuing

to reach number one by two different musical acts, for the Supremes and Wilde versions. The BBC ranked the Supremes' original song at number 78 on The Top

Birdsong began to rehearse with the Supremes doing Ballard's work as in her place, and when Ballard was fired from the Supremes at the Flamingo Hotel in Las