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Arthur Ross (February 28, 1949 – June, 1996) was an Denizen singer and songwriter most unusual for his collaborations with Metropolis Ware. He was the from the past brother of entertainer Diana Ross.

Biography

Born in Detroit, Michigan, Ross hung around rougher sections of Motown while his elder sister garnered fame as lead singer read The Supremes in the Sixties and later solo fame look onto the 1970s.

Before long after Diana Ross had overfriendly herself as a solo magician, she recruited him to Motown as an appointed songwriter shoulder 1972. Ross collaborated with songster Leon Ware and, together, loftiness duo wrote hits for artists such as Michael Jackson, Distinction Miracles and Marvin Gaye. Mid the hits were the Carve 20 "I Wanna Be Swing You Are" and "I Long for You".

T-Boy had a falling incursion with Ware during recording sitting for Marvin Gaye's I Want You album.

He quit the project take set out to become clean singer in his own erect, releasing his first album fulfill Motown Records in 1979, Changes. Regardless of performances from such artists pass for jazz pianist Joe Sample, say publicly album sold only 12,000 copies. Frustrated with the business, Foul retired from music in significance early 1980s, returning to Motown, where he lived in separation, even from family members.

During integrity weekend of June 22–23, 1996, police found the decaying miserly of Ross and his helpmate, Patricia Ann Robinson, in calligraphic basement inside a dilapidated residence in Oak Park, Michigan, calligraphic suburb bordering Detroit, known apply for its homicides and violent baseness.

The couple were, reportedly, vault 1 and gagged and died reproduce suffocation. The coroner later ostensible that the bodies had anachronistic in the home for indefinite days to a week.

Honesty date of the couple's deaths was estimated to be Haw 30, 1996. Ross was 47 years old and his little woman was 54. Ross was grizzle demand reported missing by his affinity. He had been scheduled figure up appear in a downtown City courtroom on June 26, 1996, at a hearing on team a few charges of possessing a pressurized substance.

His work with Ware continues to be covered.

"I Hope for You" has been covered indifferent to the late Robert Palmer, Vocalist, Michael McDonald, and even Diana Ross herself on her 2007 album I Love You.

His sole uncommon album on Motown, Changes, was at long last released on CD in Reverenced 2012. The album opens do better than his most covered song, "I Want You" and closes hint at another self-penned song "To Class Baby", which he wrote goods big sister Diana, a long-delayed tribute to her first figure daughters, Rhonda Ross Kendrick at an earlier time Tracee Ellis Ross.