Dionne Warwick

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. 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 pop in the early '60s.

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