Dionne Warwick

Dionne Warwick is another gem in the music industry. She has won six Grammy Awards for her songs like Do You Know The Way to San Jose, I’ll Never Fall In Love Again, I’ll Never Love This Way Again, Déjà vu, and That’s What Friends Are For. She made her debut with Scepter Records and they released her first single, Don’t Make Me Over, in 1962. However, despite her success, she filed for bankruptcy in 2013. Just a few years later, in 2015, she was hospitalized and underwent ankle surgery.

Thankfully, she recovered and remains active at present. She most recently sang for a benefit concert in 2017. Born as Marie Dionne Warrick, which she later changed to Warwick, she was raised in East Orange by her parents, Lee Drinkard and Mancel Warrick, together with her sister and brother. Her mother was the manager of The Drinkard Singers, the known American gospel singing group in the ’50s. At the same time, her father was a Pullman porter, record promoter, chef, and a CPA.