Diana Ross

Well, I am finally posting some of my pictures from The 2006 New York City Fleet Week festivities. For those that don't know the story, I will give a brief synopsis. 3 Marines and I were talking to 3 NYPD officers on Broadway, I believe between 48th and 49th. A woman walks out of a building about 20 feet from where we were and goes to get in a limo. I turn and say to the cops, "That woman must be rich". One of the cops says to me, "that is Diana Ross". I thought it was a joke and kind of laughed and turned around at the same time to see if it really was. While he was telling us who it was, I hear a woman's voice from that direction saying thank you's and that we look great in our uniforms. When I finally turn around, I see that it is her and walk over there and ask her if we can get a picture with her. She agreed happily.



We say goodbye, thank you, nice meeting you, etc... She drives away. A man comes out of the building about 5 minutes later and tells us not to go anywhere. He said he just got off the phone with Diana and she wanted to take us upstairs to her recording studio where she has been recording here new album. She just finished laying down her vocals for a song and was on her way to London, but she had her driver go around the block (a New York block) which took about 10 minutes. She pulls up to the door and hops out. She said let's go upstairs to the studio. I want you all to hear what I'm working on. We can't believe it. We get in an elevator and get out in her studio. We walk in the door and her walls were covered with records upon records that she has made over the years. That was very cool.

We are ushered into the actual sound room where they were recording that very moment. On the other side of the soundproof glass were her background vocalists trying to record the backgrounds for the song she just finished moments before. We were able to stand in there and watch them record while Diana was with us singing and carrying on.

We are in there for about 15-20 minutes and then she has to leave. She had to get to London. We all went downstairs and before she left I asked her if we could an autograph. She had no problem with that and did it happily. Then we said goodbye and she left.

She had a camerawoman with her that came down to the lobby before we went up the first time. She videotaped us from that time until Diana left about 30 minutes later. Then the camera lady took us to Times Square and videotaped us giving a little bio of ourselves and thanking Diana for everything. I could continue in greater detail, but this is suppose to be brief. That is all for now.

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