Born Marie Dionne Warrick, her last name was misspelled on the label of her first single, "Don't Make Me Over," so she started using the incorrect "Warwick." She added an "E" to her last name in the early 1970s on the advice of a psychic claiming that the extra letter would give her "positive energy" and "great success." Her string of hits (22 Top 40s in eight years) suddenly stopped - she had only one Top 40 hit with the modified name, and THAT was a collaboration with the Spinners ("Then Came You") when they were red-hot. The extra "E" was removed when she changed record labels in 1979 - and the hits resumed.
She hosted the musical variety show Solid Gold from 1980-81 and again in the '85-'86 season.
Although she is known as a solo singer, both her #1 hits were collaborations: "Then Came You" (with the Spinners) and "That's What Friends Are For" ("Dionne Warwick and Friends" - Gladys Knight, Stevie Wonder, and Elton John were the "friends," despite Warwick and Wonder meeting for the first time in the studio).
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