Dionne Warwick
Tuesday, March 31, 2020 | 10 a.m.
Dionne Warwick has one of the most distinctive voices and singing styles in the history of pop music. That unique sound played against her during a recent turn on the hit Fox celebrity talent competition “The Masked Singer,” where stars perform in elaborate costumes in order to conceal their identities.
There’s no concealing that voice.
“I said to the young lady who was helping me get dressed, I told her after I did my first song when I came backstage, ‘I’m gonna say goodbye to you now and you’ve just been delightful, thank you.’ And she said, ‘What are you talking about? You’re not going anywhere.’ And I said, ‘Oh yes I am, darling,’” Warwick says. “There’s no way in the world I’m gonna get past those judges. They all know who I am.”
Still, the 79-year-old singer says she had a ball on the show. She talks about that experience and her new residency at Caesars Palace on the Las Vegas Strip on this new episode of the Sun on the Strip podcast.
Warwick is one of the most-charted female vocalists of all time and best known for the many hits she created with composer Burt Bacharach and Hal David, unforgettable songs like “Don’t Make Me Over,” “Walk On By,” “I Just Don’t Know What To Do With Myself,” “Do You Know the Way to San Jose?” and “I’ll Never Fall in Love Again.” Her recordings endured the changing trends of the pop music landscape through the decades because she never relied on a single genre.
“We were creating something that was never heard before, our own little part of music in the pop world, the R&B world, the country world, the opera world, the jazz world. It’s just music,” Warwick says. “I don’t consider myself a pop or R&B or jazz artist. I’ve always said and I continue to say whatever the listening ear decides what I am at the time, if you think I’m a jazz singer, then that’s what I am for you.”
Listen to this and more on the Sun on the Strip, also available at Apple Podcasts.
