Iconic singer Dionne Warwick, at 84, reflects on her enduring career and the legacy of her collaborations with Burt Bacharach and Hal David.
It was the beginning of an enormous career: in the following years, Warwick’s crystal-clear voice produced enduring pop/R&B classics such as Six decades later, at the age of 84, the singer is still in the game. She is one of the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame’s latest inductees, and a biopic starring Teyana Taylor is in the works. There’s no denying Warwick is a cultural icon. These days, her singing voice shows the inevitable marks of time and age, but the power and the passion remains.
Our Zoom call is audio-only, but her wicked sense of humour and bold personality shines through, a dry chuckle frequently punctuating her sentences. is this, in fact, the last time? “It might be, we’ll see,” she laughs. “I’m at the point now where what it means is I’m slowing down a bit, and I’m not going to be out on the road as much as I was, and for as long as I had been.”Warwick’s beloved songbook was largely written especially for her by the prolific pop composer Burt Bacharach and lyricist Hal David (she immediately corrects me when I only mention Bacharach). They discovered her as a fresh-faced young woman singing in her first music group, The Gospelaires, and asked her to cut a demo. Warwick and Bacharach famously fell out in the 1970s, but reconciled in 1985 when she took part in his charity re-recording of There’s no such sentimentality in our conversation. When asked whether singing the songs feels any different now that Bacharach has passed away, she answers sharply, “No, it doesn’t – those songs belong to me. They were made for me. They were given to me … I find a great deal of pleasure being able to sing them, and the pleasure actually comes from the fact that people have enjoyed them, and still enjoy them.” Unlike many other veterans who make a living from touring alone, Warwick is still recording new music
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