Diana Ross Receiving AMA Lifetime Achievement Award 2017

The legendary singer was one of the night’s performers and she was the recipient of one of the night’s biggest honors: the Lifetime Achievement award.
After a stirring introduction from her youngest son Evan-and a suitably epic video detailing her amazing personal, musical and cinematic history and influence-Ross strode down a shimmering staircase to the stage to belt her euphoric 1980 hit “I’m Coming Out.” Resplendent in a purple gown, she led an ecstatic crowd through her latter-era gem “Take Me Higher” and “Ease on Down the Road,”-a track from The Wiz, the 1979 retelling of The Wizard of Oz that saw her star alongside her onetime Motown label-mate, Michael Jackson.
With the energy at a fever pitch, she eased into the passionate slow-burn ballad, “The Best Years of My Life”-the lyrics taking on a special significance given the honor of the evening-before welcoming four of her grandkids to dance as she riffed on her signature song, “Ain’t No Mountain High Enough.”