Arthur "t-boy" Ross marched to his own drummer. The incessant work ethic so prevalent in his siblings was missing in T-boy, who didn't like responsibilities, preferring to just wing or kick it. Born in 1949, T-boy was the fifth of six children born to Fred and Ernestine Ross: superstar Diana Ross, Barbara Ross-Lee, Dean of Ohio University College of Osteopathic Medicine, actress Rita Ross, Fred Earl Ross Jr., and Wilbert Alex Ross, bka Chico.



He was a familiar sight around the studios when five-year-older sister Diana was recording, and was already showing a penchant for lyrical poetry and singing. The ladies loved his green eyes and handsome features. But famous sister or not, Arthur was a renegade, with a multifaceted personality fueled by alcohol and drug abuse -- friend one minute, in your face the next. He hung in the fast lane and had many friends in the Russell Woods neighborhood where the Rosses moved upon leaving the Brewster Projects.