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Dionne Warwick to Perform
at Chinook Winds Casino
D o n ’t “W alk on B y ” w hen
Dionne W arwick brings her fantas
tic vocal abilities to Chinook Winds
Casino on April 6 and 7.
Captivating audiences is some
thing that she has been doing since
Burt Bacharach first heard her back
in 1960. While attending music col
lege, she began doing regular ses
sion work in New York. Once com
p o se r, a rra n g e r and p ro d u c e r
Bacharach heard her, while doing a
session for The Drifters, he asked
her to sing on demos o f songs he
was writing with new partner, Hal
David. In 1962, Bacharach & David
presented one such demo to Scep
ter Records: the label president Flo
rence Greenberg d id n ’t w ant the
song but w anted the voice. Dionne
began a h it-filled tw elve-year as
sociation with the New York label.
D uring her association with
Burt & H al, they racked up thirty
hit singles and close to twenty
best-selling album s during their
first decade o f gold. Tunes like
“D o You Know The W ay To San
Jose,” “ M essage To M ichael,”
“T his G irl’s In Love W ith Y ou,”
and “ I ’ll N ever Fall In Love
A g a in ” e s ta b lis h e d D io n n e
W arw ick as a consum m ate enter
tainer. K now n as the artist who
‘bridged the gap,’ D ionne’s m u
sic transcended race, culture and
m u sical b o undaries, a soulful
blend o f pop, gospel, and R&B.
By making her debut perform ance
at The O lym pia Theater in Paris in
1963, Dionne also became the first
black fem ale pop and soul singer
to achieve international stardom
As she was establishing h erself
as a m ajor force in Am erican con
tem porary m usic, she was sim ul
ta n e o u sly w inning over a u d i
ences
th r o u g h o u t
E u ro p e
through early hits like “A nyone
W ho H ad A H eart” and “W alk on
By.” She was the first black female
perform er to appear before the
Q ueen o f England at The Royal ent o f countless awards, Dionne’s
C om m and Perform ance in 1968. status as a musical icon and hu
Since then, she has perform ed be manitarian is legendary.
D on’t miss your chance to see
fore num erous heads o f state the
this
sensational talent in person at
w orld over. She becam e the first
Chinook
Winds on April 6 and 7.
contem porary black fem ale artist
The show is at 8 p.m.
to p o p u la riz e c la ssic m ovie
each night. For
them es w ith “A lfie” and
more informa
them e from “The V alley o f
tion, call 1-
the D olls,” to debut in her
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roes, the late Ella Fitzgerald.
She has also led the fight for
AIDS Research with her various
recordings and benefits to fund
AIDS research, and partici
pating in the all-star charity
sing“W e Are The W orld”
and performing at “Live
Warwick
Aid” in 1984. The recipi
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Dionne Warwick to
Perform at Chinook
Winds Casino
Friday, April 6 &
Saturday, April 7
D o n ’t “ W alk on B y” when
Dionne Warwick brings her fantas
tic vocal abilities to Chinook Winds
Casino in Lincoln City on April 6
and 7, starting at 8 p.m. each night.
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