Pop legend Dionne Warwick performs at Atlanta Symphony Hall on Friday, March 20 — a rescheduled date from October 2025. Ahead of the show, WABE Arts and Culture Editor Sherri Daye Scott sat down with Warwick for our “What’s Feeding You?” series, asking what is inspiring the songstress right now.
Warwick has won six Grammy Awards over a career that spans more than six decades. She ranked among the 40 biggest U.S. hitmakers from the 1950s well through the late 1990s and is considered the second-most-charted female vocalist of the rock era, with 56 of her singles reaching the Billboard Hot 100 between 1962 and 1998. In 2023, she received the Kennedy Center Honor.
Her collaboration with Gladys Knight, Elton John and Stevie Wonder on “That’s What Friends Are For,” the 1985 recording dedicated to raising AIDS awareness, remains among her most enduring contributions to music. Three of her songs (“Walk On By,” “Alfie,” and “Don’t Make Me Over”) are in the Grammy Hall of Fame.
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