When listening to the speech Diana Ross gives just before singing "Do You Know Where You're Going To?" about the artists that had come before her, I recognize all the names she mentions, except the very first one.
<< I knew there was a lot of other artists that had gone before me, all of them trusting themselves, trusting. People like [?????????], Jimmy Baldwin and Leontyne Price, Lena Horn, Sammy Davis and Harry Belafonte and Sidney Poitier, Langston Hughes and Lorraine Hansberry, Eartha Kitt, Pearlie Mae Bailey, on and on I can go, the Count, the Duke, Satchmo, Billie Holiday. All of them writing, painting, acting, singing, dancing, reaching for the stars, saying “I am and I am going to be!” >>
Anyone knows who she's talking about [[and please forgive my ignorance if I should have recognized the name)?
Here's the segment:
Thanks,
Jaap
Bookmarks