R.I.P Singer Dee Dee Warwick (Sister of Dionne Warwick) - Sitcoms Online Message Boards

Zoneboy · 10-20-2008, 12:42 AM

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Dee Dee Warwick, a soul singer who won recognition for both her solo work and her performances with her older sister Dionne Warwick, has died. She was 63.

Warwick died on Saturday at a nursing home in Essex County in New Jersey, said Kevin Sasaki, a family spokesman. She had been in failing health in recent months, he said, and her sister was with her when she died.

Warwick had several R&B and soul hits in the 1960s and 70s, including Foolish Fool, She Didn't Know (She Kept on Talking) and I'm Gonna Make You Love Me that was later covered by Diana Ross and The Supremes.

Warwick also was a two-time Grammy Award nominee and sang back-up for Aretha Franklin, Wilson Pickett and others before starting her solo career.

Warwick was the niece of gospel singer Cissy Houston and a cousin of Whitney Houston.

Born in Newark, Warwick was a teenager when she began singing with her older sister in the late 1950s. The two performed as The Gospelaires and also collaborated and sang with the Drinkard Singers, a long-running gospel group that also featured some of the Warwicks' aunts and uncles and was managed by their mother.

Most recently, Warwick provided background vocals for her sister's recent one-woman autobiographical show, My Music & Me, which played to sold-out crowds in Europe this year. She also performed on the title song from Dionne Warwick's gospel album, Why We Sing, released January 2008.

Schmoopie · 10-20-2008, 02:15 AM

Sorry to hear this. She was so young, too!

Andrea

catlover79 · 10-23-2008, 01:48 PM

10-20-2008, 12:42 AM	#1
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