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American singer, actress, and TV host Dionne Warwick has an estimated net worth of -$10 million. She has also served as the United States Ambassador of Health and then United Nations Ambassador for the Food and Agriculture Organization. She reached stardom in the music industry by partnering with Burt Bucharat and Hal David.
Dionne Warwick was ranked as one of the 40 biggest hit makers of the entire rock era (1955–2012), based on the Billboard Hot 100 Pop Singles Charts. She is the first ever female artist in history to win awards of Best Pop Vocal Performance, Female and Best R&B Vocal Performance, Female the same year for her hit songs I’ll Never Love This Way Again and Déjà vu respectively.
Dionne was born on December 12, 1940 in East Orange, New Jersey. She came from a family of singers and started singing Gospel music as a child at the New Hope Baptist Church in Newark, New Jersey. After graduating from East Orange High School, she got a scholarship in Music Education to the Hartt College of Music in Hartford, Connecticut. She, later on, earned a masters degree an honorary doctorate in Music Education from the same institution.
Earnings & Financial Data
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Date |
Category |
Description |
Amount |
|---|---|---|---|
|
2001 |
Record Sales |
Estimated earnings from her compilation album Heartbreaker: The Very Best of Dionne Warwick (certified silver by BPI) |
$60,000 |
|
1995 |
Record Sales |
Estimated earnings from her compilation album The Essential Collection (certified silver by BPI) |
$60,000 |
|
1988 |
Record Sales |
Estimated earnings from her compilation album The Love Songs (certified silver by BPI) |
$60,000 |
|
1986 |
Record Sales |
Estimated earnings from her album Reservations for Two |
$400,000 |
|
1984 |
Record Sales |
Estimated earnings from her album Friends (certified gold by RIAA and Music Canada) |
$550,000 |
|
1982 |
Record Sales |
Estimated earnings from her compilation album The Collection (certified gold by BPI) |
$100,000 |
|
1981 |
Record Sales |
Estimated earnings from her album Friends in Love |
$200,000 |
|
1981 |
Record Sales |
Estimated earnings from her album Heartbreaker (certified platinum by BPI and gold by RIAA) |
$3,000,000 |
|
1979 |
Record Sales |
Estimated earnings from her album No Night So Long (certified gold by RIAA) |
$500,000 |
|
1978 |
Record Sales |
Estimated earnings from her album Dionne (certified platinum by RIAA) |
$1,000,000 |
|
1975 |
Record Sales |
Estimated earnings from her compilation album The Dionne Warwick Collection (certified silver by BPI) |
$60,000 |
|
1970 |
Record Sales |
Estimated earnings from her live album The Dionne Warwick Story: A Decade of Gold (certified gold by RIAA) |
$500,000 |
|
1969 |
Record Sales |
Estimated earnings from her compilation album The Greatest Hits of Dionne Warwick, Vol. 2 (certified silver by BPI) |
$60,000 |
|
1968 |
Record Sales |
Estimated earnings from her compilation album Dionne Warwick's Greatest Motion Picture Hits (certified gold by RIAA) |
$500,000 |
|
1967 |
Record Sales |
Estimated earnings from her album Dionne Warwick in Valley of the Dolls (certified gold by RIAA) |
$500,000 |
|
1966 |
Record Sales |
Estimated earnings from her compilation album Dionne Warwick's Golden Hits, Pt. 1 (certified gold by RIAA) |
$500,000 |
|
1965 |
Record Sales |
Estimated earnings from her album Here Where There Is Love (certified gold by RIAA) |
$500,000 |