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Marie Dionne Warrick, later Warwick, was born on December 12, 1940, in East Orange, New Jersey, to Lee Drinkard and Mancel Warrick. Her mother was manager of the Drinkard Singers, and her father was a Pullman porter, chef, record promoter, and CPA. Dionne was named after her aunt on her mother's side. [4] She had a sister, Delia ("Dee Dee ...
A one-hit wonder is a musical artist who is successful with one hit song, but without a comparable subsequent hit. [1] The term may also be applied to an artist who is remembered for only one hit despite other successes (such as "Take On Me" by a-ha in the United States, [2] [3] [4] which topped a Rolling Stone magazine poll to find the top one-hit wonder).
Dionne Warwick is an American singer. She has charted 69 times on the US Billboard Hot 100 singles chart, making her the second-most charted female vocalist during the rock era (1955–2010), after Aretha Franklin. [1] Warwick has sold over 100 million records (over 75 million singles and 25 million albums) worldwide. [2]
Kenyan athlete Faith Kipyegon broke her own world record in the women’s 1500m – a distance she has dominated in recent years. Kipyegon set the previous record with a time of 3:49.11 in 2023 ...
Elzire Dionne (mother) The Dionne quintuplets ( French pronunciation: [djɔn]; born May 28, 1934) are the first quintuplets known to have survived their infancy. The identical girls were born just outside Callander, Ontario, near the village of Corbeil. All five survived to adulthood. [1]
Teri Hatcher is marking the end of an intense fitness challenge by showing off her new, very muscular figure in a bikini shot posted to Instagram.. For the past eight weeks, the actress, 55, has ...
The Unified went into a brilliant 2-3 zone that day, which led to an astounding 26 steals and forced the Americans to go just 5-for-20 from 3-point land and 36 percent from the floor.
Dinah Washington ( / ˈdaɪnə /; born Ruth Lee Jones; August 29, 1924 – December 14, 1963) was an American singer and pianist, one of the most popular black female recording artists of the 1950s. [ 1] Primarily a jazz vocalist, she performed and recorded in a wide variety of styles including blues, R&B, and traditional pop music, [ 1] and ...