Arthur "T-Boy" Ross

Singer + Songwriter + Musician

Male

Born Feb 28, 1949

Died May 30, 1996

Arthur Ross was an American singer and songwriter most notable for his collaborations with Leon Ware. He was the younger brother of Diana Ross. Born in Detroit, Michigan, Ross hung around rougher sections of Detroit while his elder sister went on to fame… Read More

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Patricia Robinson

Married

Family

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Arthur "T-Boy" Ross

d.1996

siblings

Diana Ross
Sister, Age 69

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Behind The Amnh's Most Venerable Artifact Is A Shameful History
Huffington Post - Mar 19, 2013

Behind the American Museum of Natural History’s most venerable artifact is the shameful tale of a relentless explorer and a young boy’s torturous journey from Greenland to New York. The hulking, craggy rock that looms largest in the Arthur Ross Hall of Meteorites at the American Museum of Natural History seems immovable, and is in fact so heavy that its supports go right down to the bedrock of Manhattan beneath the museum. Of course, the hefty iron meteorite didn't just plummet f...
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Catherine Despont: Salvage Art Institute's Exhibit Explores Art's Afterlife
Huffington Post - Nov 14, 2012

When is art broken? Does a crack in the Sistine Chapel pose a threat to the way we see it? And how do we determine when a work is beyond repair? Sometimes it's a matter of cost, or technology -- but even then, isn't an artwork worth more than just the sum of its parts? Any aesthete will want to say yes, but sitting in the storage units of insurance companies around the world there are objects -- some painting-like, some sculpture-like -- that have been damaged and striped of thei...
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Penguins Embarrass Lemieux
canoe.ca - Apr 17, 2012

Their owner is embarrassed, apparently. Their Art Ross Trophy winner is being owned by a 19-year-old. Their goalie has a save percentage that starts with seven.
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Intervention Mentality And The Spectacle Of Joseph Kony
Dissident Voice - Apr 14, 2012

The modern world is a place of constructed images. With a globe shrunk by the forces of globalization, and communication made seemliness by technological advancement, information is produced in an instant and has the ability to reach greater masses than ever seen before. But under a regime of neo-liberalism, information is perpetually reworked into a commodity, and the prevailing images transform into a branded, advertising-based format. It holds a mirror up to the human being’s psychologica...
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Timeline

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CHILDHOOD

1949 Birth Born in 1949.

TWENTIES

1972 23 Years Old Shortly after Diana Ross had established herself on her own, she recruited him to Motown as an appointed songwriter in 1972. … Read More

THIRTIES

1979 30 Years Old T-Boy had an argument with Ware during recording sessions for Marvin Gaye's I Want You album. He later left and in 1979, set on becoming a singer, released his first album for Motown in 1979, Changes. … Read More

FORTIES

1996 47 Years Old 2 More Events

During the weekend of June 22-23, 1996, police found the decaying bodies of Ross and his wife Patricia Ann Robinson in a basement inside another person's dilapidated home in Oak Park, Michigan, a high crime suburb of Detroit. … Read More

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