FIVE-TIME Grammy Award-winning music legend, Dionne Warwick, has announced a headline show at Vicar Street on September 10.
Warwick's career, which is currently celebrating 50 years, has established her as an international music icon and concert act. She has earned more than 60 charted hit songs and sold over 100 million records.
Warwick received her first Grammy Award in 1968 for her mega-hit, ‘Do You Know the Way to San Jose?’ and a second Grammy in 1970 for the best-selling album, ‘I'll Never Fall in Love Again’.
She became the first African-American solo female artist of her generation to win the prestigious award for Best Contemporary Female Vocalist Performance. This award was only presented to one other legend, Miss Ella Fitzgerald.
In 1976, Warwick signed with Arista Records, beginning a third decade of hit-making. Arista Record’s label-mate Barry Manilow produced her first Platinum-selling album, ‘Dionne’, which included back-to-back hits ‘I'll Never Love This Way Again’, and ‘Déjà vu’.
Both recordings earned Grammy Awards, making Warwick the first female artist to win the Best Female Pop and Best Female R&B Performance Awards.
More recently, Warwick recorded an album of duets, ‘My Friends & Me’, for Concord Records, a critically acclaimed Gospel album, ‘Why We Sing’, for Rhino/Warner Records, and a new jazz album, ‘Only Trust Your Heart’, a collection of standards celebrating the music of legendary composer Sammy Cahn for Sony Red/MPCA Records.
Currently, Warwick just completed recording a new studio album commemorating her anniversary that is being produced by composer Burt Bacharach.
Dionne Warwick is live at Vicar Street on September 10.
