Dionne Warwick

Dionne Warwick, 1997

Marie Dionne Warwick (* 12. December 1940 in East Orange , New Jersey ) is an American singer and television presenter .

According to Rolling Stone magazine, she is the “pioneer chanteuse of black middle-of-the-road pop ” and is particularly famous as a muse and interpreter of the compositions of Burt Bacharach and Hal David . She is the sister of Dee Dee Warwick , a niece of Cissy Houston and a cousin of Whitney Houston .

Life

Dionne Warwick grew up in a family characterized by gospel music and sang with her sister Dee Dee, her mother Lee Drinkard and her sister Emily Drinkard, who later became Cissy Houston, in the gospel choir The Drinkard Singers . In a panel session, the Drifters , in Warwick as a background singer participated, was Burt Bacharach attention to the velvety voice of the singer. From 1962 he wrote numerous hits for her with his regular lyricist Hal David, some of which belong to the Great American Songbook . Don't Make Me Over was the name of the first single, which reached the American charts at number 12 in 1963. Warwick stayed with the label Scepter , on which it was recorded, until 1971.

From 1963 to 1972 she primarily recorded Burt Bacharach / Hal David compositions and landed her greatest hits with titles such as Anyone Who Had a Heart , Walk On By , Reach Out for Me (1964), Message to Michael , Trains and Boats and Planes , I Just Don't Know What to Do with Myself (1966), Alfie , The Windows of The World , I Say a Little Prayer (1967), (Theme From) Valley of the Dolls (highest solo ranking for Warwick in the United States, 2nd place), Do You Know the Way to San José , Promises, Promises (1968), This Girl's in Love with You , You've Lost That Lovin 'Feeling (1969), I'll Never Fall in Love Again and Paper Maché (1970). With (Theme From) Valley of the Dolls , she had the highest solo placement in the United States with No. 2. From 1968 to 1970 she won two Grammy Awards for best female pop voice of the year for her vocal performance .

In 1968, The Magic of Believing, a little-noticed gospel album, was created. Another followed 40 years later with Why We Sing .

Dionne Warwick, 1973 (Photo: Allan Warren )

On astrological advice, Dionne Warwick appended an allegedly lucky "e" to her surname for three years from 1971. In 1972 she moved from the small label Scepter to Warner Records for a record fee - she received the hitherto most highly valued recording contract with a singer in the United States . However, after their previous hit suppliers Bacharach / David had split up, Warwick was initially only able to book smaller single hits. Even a collaboration with the Motown hit team Holland-Dozier-Holland ( The Supremes ) was unable to get the singer back on the road to success. It was more or less by chance that she achieved a surprising number one hit in the United States in 1974 with the duo recording Then Came You (on Atlantic Records ) with the Detroit soul band The Spinners . She also recorded a successful live double album with soul star Isaac Hayes . Nevertheless, it was not enough for a sustained comeback .

Only the collaboration with Barry Manilow in 1979 and another change of record company to Arista Records brought new successes. I'll Never Love This Way Again , a title that already a year earlier of three angel-for-Charlie actress Cheryl Ladd was taken up, reached No. 5 on the US charts and was awarded the Grammy for best female pop -Vocal performance excellent. She received another one for the follow-up hit Déjà-vu , but for the best R&B performance . She was the first singer ever to win a Grammy in both categories in one year. In 1980 she led the adult contemporary charts with No Night so Long .

From 1980 to 1981, she accepted the offer to host the popular American television pop show Solid Gold . She left the show unwilling to co- host with country singer Tanya Tucker , but returned to the show between 1984 and 1986. In 1982 she went into the studio with Barry Gibb from the Bee Gees . The result was the globally successful album Heartbreaker with the top hit of the same name . She had a successful collaboration with Luther Vandross in 1983 with the title How Many Times Can We Say Goodbye and in 1984 with Stevie Wonder for The Woman In Red .

1985 sang Warwick in multi-Star charity We Are the World and took four weeks number one in the US charts with a cover version of the earlier of Rod Stewart recorded for a quickly forgotten movie soundtrack Burt Bacharach -title That's What Friends Are For . The million-dollar proceeds from the world hit went to the American AIDS relief organization amfAR , founded by Elizabeth Taylor , which was able to finance its entire budget for the first two years of its existence.

Over the years Warwick has been committed to this institution and has received several awards for its charitable work. Their hit time seemed to be over in 1987 after the successful duet Love Power with Jeffrey Osborne and number 12 in the United States.

An album with Cole Porter titles in 1990, her reunion with Bacharach and David in 1993, Sunny Weather Lover from the album Friends Can Be Lovers , Bossa Nova recordings in 1994 on the album Aquarela Do Brasil and a duet with Dieter Bohlen project Blue System (It's All Over) did not achieve the desired sales, even if the last-mentioned title found itself in the lower regions of the German single charts for a few weeks. In 1998 she re-recorded many of her old classics in a new guise for the album Dionne Sings Dionne . So she reached Although eleven years after their last hit again the singles chart, but came up with a hip-hop version of What the World Needs Now Is Love with various rap and hip-hop artists such as - Bobby Brown and Coolio not Place 87 out.

In addition, the artist made more and more negative headlines. The Psychic Friends Network , for which she appeared as a presenter and in advertising, went bankrupt and scratched the singer's reputation. In 2002, she was briefly detained in Miami by the US drug search with eleven marijuana cigarettes. Supposedly these were only as agent against glaucoma thought.

Dionne Warwick, 2003

In 2004 four major divas concerts with Warwick, Whitney Houston and Natalie Cole were announced. Due to the highly overestimated demand by the organizer, the events had to move from the planned stadiums, e.g. B. in the "Arena auf Schalke", in - but then sold out - halls such as the Olympic Hall in Munich. The event at the Brandenburg Gate , which was planned as the first, was canceled by the organizer Tchibo .

Warwick lived temporarily in Bahia (Brazil) until 2005 , where she owned a house. For this reason, Warwick usually sings a potpourri of Brazilian compositions in their concerts.

In February 2020, Warwick took part as Mouse in the third season of the US offshoot of The Masked Singer and finished 14th out of a total of 18 places.

Discography

→ Main article : Dionne Warwick / Discography

Studio albums

year	title	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes)					Remarks
		DE	AT	CH	UK	US
1964	Presenting Dionne Warwick	-	-	-	UK14 (10 weeks) UK	-
	Make Way for Dionne Warwick	-	-	-	-	US68 (20 weeks) US
1965	The Sensitive Sound of Dionne Warwick	-	-	-	-	US107 (9 weeks) US
1966	Here I Am	-	-	-	-	US45 (29 weeks) US
	Dionne Warwick in Paris	-	-	-	-	US76 (11 weeks) US	recorded live on January 18, 1966 at the Olympia
1967	Here Where There Is Love	-	-	-	UK39 (2 weeks) UK	US18th gold (66 weeks)US
	On Stage and in the Movies	-	-	-	-	US169 (9 weeks) US
	The Windows of the World	-	-	-	-	US22 (31 weeks) US
1968	Valley of the Dolls	-	-	-	UK10 (13 weeks) UK	US6th gold (48 weeks)US
1969	Promises, promises	-	-	-	-	US18 (39 weeks) US
	Soulful	-	-	-	-	US11 (28 weeks) US
	Dionne Warwick's Greatest Motion Picture Hits	-	-	-	-	US31 gold (24 weeks)US
1970	I'll Never Fall in Love Again	-	-	-	-	US23 (39 weeks) US	Grammy (Pop Vocal Female)
1971	Very Dionne	-	-	-	-	US37 (24 weeks) US
1972	From Within	-	-	-	-	US169 (5 weeks) US
1973	Just Being Myself	-	-	-	-	US178 (8 weeks) US
1975	Then came you	-	-	-	-	US167 (6 weeks) US
1976	Track of the Cat	-	-	-	-	US137 (15 weeks) US
1977	A man and a woman	-	-	-	-	US49 (13 weeks) US	Isaac Hayes & Dionne Warwick
1979	Dionne	-	-	-	-	US12 platinum (54 weeks)US	Producer: Barry Manilow
1980	No night so long	-	-	-	-	US23 (25 weeks) US
1981	Hot! Live and Otherwise	-	-	-	-	US72 (14 weeks) US	Double live album with some studio recordings
1982	Friends in Love	-	-	-	-	US83 (12 weeks) US
	Heartbreaker	DE18 (22 weeks) DE	AT10 (4 weeks) AT	-	UK3 platinum (33 weeks)UK	US25th gold (28 weeks)US	Producer: Barry Gibb
1983	How Many Times Can We Say Goodbye / So Amazing (UK)	-	-	-	UK60 (2 weeks) UK	US57 (17 weeks) US	Producer: Luther Vandross
1984	The Woman in Red - Original Motion Picture Soundtrack	DE3 (29 weeks) DE	AT2 (22 weeks) AT	CH2 (22 weeks) CH	UK2 platinum (19 weeks)UK	US4th platinum (40 weeks)US	with Stevie Wonder
1985	Finder of Lost Loves / Without Your Love (UK)	-	-	-	UK86 (2 weeks) UK	US106 (11 weeks) US
	Friends	-	-	-	-	US12 gold (26 weeks)US
1987	Reservations for Two	-	-	-	-	US56 (27 weeks) US
1990	Dionne Warwick Sings Cole Porter	-	-	-	-	US155 (9 weeks) US
1994	Christmas in Vienna II	DE41 (6 weeks) DE	AT7 (2 weeks) AT	-	UK60 (2 weeks) UK	-	with Plácido Domingo
2012	Now: A Celebratory 50th Anniversary Album	-	-	-	UK57 (2 weeks) UK	-

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Awards

• Grammy Awards
  • 1969: Best Female Contemporary-Pop Vocal Performance for Do You Know the Way to San Jose?
  • 1971: Best Female Contemporary Vocal Performance for I'll Never Fall in Love Again
  • 1980: Best Female Pop Vocal Performance for I'll Never Love This Way Again
  • 1980: Best Female R&B Vocal Performance for Déjà vu
  • 1987: Song of the Year for That's What Friends Are For
  • 1987: Best Pop Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocals for That's What Friends Are For

• Grammy Hall of Fame Award
  • 1998: Walk On By
  • 2000: Don't Make Me Over

• Cash Box Magazine- # 1 Female Vocalist, 1964
• Cash Box Magazine- # 1 R&B Female Vocalist; # 2 Pop, 1966
• Cash Box Magazine- # 2 R & B; # 2 Pop, 1967
• Cash Box Magazine- # 2 R & B; # 2 Pop, 1968
• Cash Box Magazine- # 1 Female Vocalist (Albums and Singles), 1969
• Cash Box Magazine- # 1 Female Vocalist (Albums and Singles), 1970
• Cash Box Magazine- # 1 Female Vocalist (Albums and Singles), 1971
• NARM (National Association of Record Mercandisers) # 1 Popular Vocalist-Female 1964, 1966, 1967, 1968, 1969, 1970.

• NAACP Image Awards Entertainer of the Year, 1986
• American Music Awards-Special Recognition, "That's What Friends Are For," 1987
• Billboard Music Awards # 1 Single of the Year, "That's What Friends Are For," 1987
• ACE Award Nominee for "Sisters in the Name of Love", Dionne Warwick (HBO-1987)
• United States Ambassador of Health-Appointed 1987
• ASCAP Lifetime Achievement Award, 1998
• National Academy of Popular Music / Songwriters Hall of Fame-Hitmaker Award, 2001
• ASCAP Heroes Award, 2002
• United Nations Global Ambassador for the Food and Agriculture Organization -appointed 2002
• Women's World Award-Lifetime Achievement Award, 2003
• Rhythm & Blues Foundation-Lifetime Achievement Award, 2003
• Golden Camera in the “Lifetime Achievement Music” category, 2012
• Lifetime Achievement Award, Baloise Session Award, 2012
• Honorary Award of the German Sustainability Award , 2013

literature

• Irwin Stambler: The Encyclopedia of Pop, Rock and Soul . 3rd Revised Edition, New York City, New York: St. Martin's Press, 1989; ISBN 0-312-02573-4 ; Pp. 726-728.

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1. ↑ The title reached number 42 on the German charts and remained its only chart placement in Germany in the 1960s; Ehnert, Günter (Ed.): Hit balance sheet. German chart singles 1956–1980 . Hamburg: Taurus Press, 1990, p. 215
2. ↑ https://www.allmusic.com/album/the-magic-of-believing-mw0000562254
3. ↑ https://www.discogs.com/Dionne-Warwick-Why-We-Sing/release/3573417
4. ↑ allaboutjazz.com: Interview: Dionne Warwick by Marc Myers , 2010, accessed on May 2, 2018
5. ↑ Rachel Yang: The Masked Singer Mouse on why a legendary female singer hasn't won yet. In: Entertainment Weekly . February 26, 2020, accessed on July 14, 2020 . 
6. ↑ Chart sources: Singles Albums UK US / The Woman in Red Album / Alfie Album
7. ^ The Billboard Albums by Joel Whitburn , 6th Edition, Record Research 2006, ISBN 0-89820-166-7 .
8. ↑ Lifetime Achievement Award 2012 ( Memento of the original from October 19, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  

Web links

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• Official website (English)
• Dionne Warwick at the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Dionne Warwick at Allmusic (English)
• Dionne Warwick at Discogs (English)