Determined Dreamgirls
How the Supremes became the quintessential girl group
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3 min readJan 27, 2022
Three teenage singers from the Brewster-Douglass projects named Diana Ross, Mary Wilson, and Florence Ballard had one goal: to sign a recording contract with Motown Records. When they first auditioned for Berry Gordy at Motown as the Primettes, he told them to come back after they’d finished high school. Undaunted, the three girls…