The great pop vocalist talks about Elvis, Bacharach and David, her cousin Whitney Houston – and her experience with
Donald Trump on The Celebrity Apprentice
Dionne Warwick is 79 and on fire. In 2019 she released two albums, kicked off a Vegas residency and won a lifetime achievement Grammy award. This year she has already done a turn on the US version of The Masked
Singer – the reality TV show where artists perform songs incognito – and a
UK tour is planned for autumn.
As the sweet, mellow voice behind the hits Walk on By and Do You Know the Way to San Jose, she was one of the first artists in the series to be correctly identified by the show’s judging panel. “The fortunate, or unfortunate thing about my voice is it’s so distinctive,” she says. Obscuring it would have been impossible, she adds. “I don’t know how to do that.”