WARWICK, DIONNE

WARWICK, DIONNE. Popular-music singer (12 December 1940 in East Orange, New Jersey). She came from a musical family; her mother and maternal relatives were members of a gospel group, The Drinkards. She began piano study at the age of six and as a child sang in church choirs and with family gospel groups. She obtained her musical education in the public schools of East Orange and at the Hartt College of Music in Hartford, Connecticut. During her high school years she...