KINGSTON, Jamaica — American singer, actress and tv presenter Dionne Warwick says she enjoys the reception that she will get each time she performs for her Jamaican viewers.
The veteran multi-Grammy successful multi-platinum promoting vocalist whose profession began within the Nineteen Sixties, made the assertion in an interview with Observer On-line final week.
Warwick headlines the Coveside Concert events sequence Timeless, which will get underway on March 29 at Plantation Cove in St Ann.
“The reception amongst the viewers in Jamaica is phenomenal. Individuals have proven as much as my live shows over time and have been very supportive,” mentioned Warwick, who final carried out in Jamaica on the 2013 staging of the Jamaica Jazz & Blues Competition which was held on the Trelawny Multi-Objective Stadium.
She is understood for a stellar string of hit songs which have dented the Billboard, UK and worldwide charts over the a long time, together with fan favourites comparable to Do You Know the Method to San Jose, I Say a Little Prayer (she recorded the unique model which rose to #4 on the Billboard Sizzling 100 in 1967), Don’t Make Me Over, Stroll on By, Then Got here You with The Spinners (her first #1 tune on the Sizzling 100 in 1974), I’ll By no means Love This Means Once more, Déjà vu, No Evening So Lengthy, Heartbreaker, All of the Love within the World, How Many Instances Can We Say Goodbye with Luther Vandross and the tune that raised hundreds of thousands for charities, That’s What Pals Are For.
Requested if she knew how in style she was in Jamaica, Warwick mentioned “I don’t assume any artist can actually gauge their recognition with their viewers. I do admire the help obtained all through the years.”
In 2013, she recorded a reggae model of the BJ Thomas 1969 basic Raindrops Preserve Falling on My Head, which was produced by her son Damon Elliott. Enigmatic Jamaican musicians Sly Dunbar and Robbie Shakespeare labored on the observe.
Warwick recalled assembly the late reggae king, Bob Marley.
“Sure, it was a beautiful assembly. Bob was actually a gentleman who launched me to his household all these years in the past. An awesome man,” Miss Warwick recalled.
Though she is approaching her mid-80s, Warwick could be very lively on social media platforms together with X (previously often known as Twitter) and he or she interacts along with her followers frequently.
She will get a thrill seeing younger followers at her reveals and people who have found her music in recent times.
“Sure, they’re listening and discovering me in addition to my music,” she mentioned including “I positive do (get a thrill seeing) the younger of us who’re being uncovered to nice music.”
Pressed on what followers can count on at her upcoming efficiency in Jamaica, Warwick mentioned “Me! Sharing the music with followers. I’m having fun with doing what I really like probably the most.”
Warwick, who hosted the tv music present Stable Gold within the Nineteen Eighties (which aired on JBC-TV), is the second most charting feminine vocalist in the course of the rock period from 1955-1999.
She ranks #74 on Billboard’s Sizzling 100 Biggest Artists of All Time.
In 2019, she obtained the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award.
Timeless may also characteristic performances by Jamaica’s first woman of Jazz Myrna Hague, along with Queen of Reggae Marcia Griffiths, and Duane Stephenson.
– Kevin Jackson
