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Marie Dionne Warwick (born December 12, 1940 in East Orange, New Jersey) is an American pop and contemporary R&B singer.

Warwick was raised in a New Jersey family heavily associated with gospel choirs, which she and her sister, Dee Dee Warwick, performed in growing up. She was also first cousins with Music/WhitneyHouston. Her career took off when she was discovered by composer Music/BurtBacharach, who initially hired her to record demos for him and lyricist Hal David. This marked the start of a fruitful long-time collaboration, with Bacharach and David writing many of Warwick's biggest hits including "Don't Make Me Over", "Anyone Who Had a Heart", "Walk on By", "Message to Michael", "Alfie", "I Say a Little Prayer", "Do You Know the Way to San Jose?", and "I'll Never Fall in Love Again".

Warwick worked steadily throughout TheSixties. Her career stalled a bit during TheSeventies following a fallout with Bacharach and David,[[note]]although they later reconciled and worked together again[[/note]] but in 1979 she moved to Creator/AristaRecords, where she would enjoy a resurgence in popularity with hits like "I'll Never Love This Way Again", "Déjà Vu", "Heartbreaker", "Love Power" (with Jeffrey Osborne), and the chart-topping "That's What Friends Are For" (a superteam collaboration with Music/EltonJohn, Music/GladysKnight, and Music/StevieWonder). Overall one of the most prolific artists of the 20th century, with dozens of albums and numerous hit singles to her credit, Warwick continued to release new music all the way into TheNewTens.

An occasional actress, she guested on several shows in TheNineties, was on a celebrity season of ''Series/TheApprentice'', and appeared on ''Series/TheMaskedSinger''. During the 2020s UsefulNotes/COVID19Pandemic she gained a measure of late-career notoriety for being endearingly clueless on Website/{{Twitter}}, to the point where an art exhibit dedicated to her account was set up. [[https://www.nj.com/entertainment/2021/10/dionne-warwick-queen-of-twitter-art-exhibit-a-favorite-in-nj-extended-for-another-month.html Yes, really]]. Warwick's career was detailed in the 2021 documentary ''Film/DionneWarwickDontMakeMeOver''.

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!!Dionne Warwick discography and filmography:
[[folder:Albums]]
# ''Presenting Dionne Warwick''
# ''Anyone Who Had a Heart''
# ''Make Way for Dionne Warwick''
# ''The Sensitive Sound of Dionne Warwick''
#''Here I Am''
# ''Here Where There Is Love''
# ''On Stage and in the Movies''
# ''The Windows of the World''
# ''Dionne Warwick in Valley of the Dolls''
# ''The Magic of Believing''
# ''Promises, Promises''
# ''Soulful''
# ''I'll Never Fall in Love Again''
# ''Very Dionne''
# ''Dionne''
# ''Just Being Myself''
# ''Then Came You''
# ''Track of the Cat''
# ''Love at First Sight''
# ''Dionne''
# ''No Night So Long''
# ''Friends in Love''
# ''Heartbreaker''
# ''How Many Times Can We Say Goodbye''
# ''Finder of Lost Loves''
# ''Friends''
# ''Reservations for Two''
# ''Dionne Warwick Sings Cole Porter''
# ''Friends Can Be Lovers''
# ''Aquarela do Brasil''
# ''Dionne Sings Dionne''
# ''Dionne Sings Dionne, Vol. 2''
# ''My Favorite Time of the Year''
# ''My Friends & Me''
# ''Why We Sing''
# ''Only Trust Your Heart''
# ''Now''
# ''Feels So Good''
# ''She's Back''
# ''Dionne Warwick & the Voices of Christmas''
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[[folder:Filmography]]
!! Film
* ''Film/TheLoveMachine'' as herself (1971)
!! Television
* ''WesternAnimation/JohnnyBravo'' [[AsHimself as herself]] (1 episode; 1999)
* ''Series/SoWeird'' as herself (1 episode; 1999)
* ''Series/WalkerTexasRanger'' as Dionne Barry (1 episode; 2000)

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!!Tropes in her music and stage persona:

* TheCoverChangesTheGender: "This Guy's In Love With You", written by Bacharach and David, was first recorded by Music/HerbAlpert and was a #1 hit in 1968. Dionne Warwick's cover "This Girl's In Love With You" charted the next year.
* ChristmasSongs: The album ''Dionne Warwick & the Voices of Christmas'' (2019) is full of collaborations with other artists to sing Christmas songs.
* DomesticAbuse: "Check Out Time" on ''Very Dionne'', about a woman who escapes her abusive husband and checks into a motel several hundred miles away, uncertain of what she'll do next. The arrangement hints at physical abuse with a few very prominent loud bass drum beats in the bridge.
* FriendshipSong: "That's What Friends Are For", a song about the benefits of friendship, written by Bacharach and Carol Bayer Sager and recorded by Warwick, Music/EltonJohn, Music/StevieWonder and Music/GladysKnight (credited as "Dionne and Friends", and actually a cover of a song originally performed by Music/RodStewart on the ''Film/{{Night Shift|1982}}'' soundtrack). Proceeds from the sales of the single benefited AIDS research.
* LocationSong: The Bacharach composition "Do You Know the Way to San José?" about a native of San José who didn't make it in UsefulNotes/LosAngeles and thus returns to her hometown.
* LyricalDissonance: "Do You Know the Way to San José?" is bouncy, with a catchy "wo-wo-wo-wo" background vocal hook, but lyrically it's a sad song about broken dreams and alienation from one's roots.
* ParodyAssistance: Was a fan of ''Series/SaturdayNightLive'''s "The Dionne Warwick Talk Show", where Creator/EgoNwodim portrays her as a lightly self-absorbed old woman who is clueless about today's pop culture. She popped up on [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UHQbl3byYiY the November 6, 2021 version]] of the skit to be interviewed by her impersonator, even singing a duet with her.
* {{Pride}}: In "Walk on By" she begs her old lover to ignore her so she can hang onto this.
-->Foolish pride\\
That's all that I have left\\
So let me hide\\
The tears and the sadness you gave me\\
When you said goodbye
* RewrittenPopVersion: Both the title song and "I'll Never Fall in Love Again" from ''Theatre/PromisesPromises'' were recorded by Dionne Warwick and became hits during the original run.
* StageNames: Her birth name is Dione ''Warrick''; Warwick came from an early misspelling.
* StepfordSuburbia: "Paper Mache", written by Burt Bacharach and Hal David.
-->Twenty houses in a row\\
Eighty people watch a TV show\\
Paper people, cardboard dreams\\
How unreal the whole thing seems
* TemporaryNameChange: In 1971, Dionne Warwick added an "e" to the end of her last name on the advice of an astrologer friend, but removed it after a few years.
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