Dionne Warwick is an American singer, actress, and TV-show host. She was born into a gospel music family. Her father worked with Chess Records as gospel record promoter while her mother manageda gospel group consisting of her relatives called Drinkard Singers. She first sang when she was six years old at New hope Baptist Church in New Jersey where eventually she became a choir member. When she became a teenager, she formed a group with her sister Dee Dee and her aunt Cissy Houston (the mother of Whitney Houston) called theGospelaires. After high school, she became a scholar atthe Hartt College of Music in Hartford, Connecticut.
While she was performing as a background singer of the song “Mexican Divorce”, the song composer,Burt Bacharach, and the lyricist, Hal David,noticed her voice.After the performance, the composer asked Dionne if she would be interested in recording demo recordings of his compositions. And the rest is history.
Up until now, Dionne Warwick continues to harmonize us with her best hits of all time:
- Don’t Make Me Over
- This Empty Place
- Anyone Who Had A Heart
- Walk On By
- You’ll Never Get To Heaven
- A House Is Not A Home
- Reach Out For Me
- Who Can I Turn To
- (Here I go Again) Lookin’ With My Eyes
- Are You There (With Another Girl)
- Message To Michael –aka Message To Martha
- Trains and Boats and Planes
- I just Don’t Know What To Do With Mysself
- Another Night
- Alfie
- The Windows of The World
- I say A Little Prayer
- (Theme From) Valley of the Dolls
- Do You Know The Way To San Jose
- (There’s) Always Something There to Remind Me
- Promises, Promises
- The April Fools
- I’ll Never Fall inlove Again
- The Green Grass Starts To Grow
- Summertime
- Baubles, Bangles and Beads
- Anything You Can Do
- One Hand, One Heart (With these Hands)
- My Ship
- Something Wonderful
- Make The Night A Little Longer
- Wishin’ and Hopin’
- Land of Make Believe
- Last One To Be Loved
- In Between the Heartaches
- How Can I Hurt You?
- If I Ever Make You CryThis Little Night
- This Little Night
