DIONNE WARWICK
Pop/Art Song/Folk / Vocal Jazz / RnB / Latin Jazz / Jazz Related Soundtracks / Jazz Related Gospel • United States
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Sophisticated singer with a clear yet soulful voice, the perfect instrument for some of the Brill Building's greatest pop hits.
It is easier to define Dionne Warwick by what she isn't rather than what she is. Although she grew up singing in church, she is not a gospel singer. Ella Fitzgerald and Sarah Vaughan are clear influences, but she is not a jazz singer. R&B is also part of her background, but she is not really a soul singer, either, at least not in the sense that Aretha Franklin is. Sophisticated is a word often used to describe her musical approach and the music she sings, but she is not a singer of standards such as Lena Horne or Nancy Wilson. What is she, then? She is a pop singer of a sort that perhaps could only have emerged out of the Brill Building environment of post-Elvis Presley, pre-Beatles urban
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