Before she became one of the biggest-selling female solo artists of the 20th century, Dionne Warwick was a teenaged piano major who earned tuition money as a background singer on records by The Drifters, Dinah Washington, Brook Benton, Solomon Burke and other vocal greats.
Now 82, the five-time Grammy Award-winner laughed heartily when asked what she learned as a young studio session singer that helped her when she became a solo artist in her own right.
"What I learned from working with them is that I didn't want to become a solo artist!" Warwick said, laughing again.
