The music icon appeared at a press conference at TIFF for the documentary 'Dionne Warwick: Don’t Make Me Over.'
“Being the nosy person that I am, I wanted to know what was going on and took the time to find out. That’s the humanity side of being a human being, and caring about other people,” she told the TIFF presser.
Warwick, who will receive a special tribute award at the festival’s TIFF Tribute Awards gala on Sept. 18, added that she would welcome a remake of the 1985 song “That’s What Friends Are For,” which has become an anthem for AIDS awareness and empathy. “It would be something to think about, yes,” she told the TIFF press contingent. Warwick hasn’t considered who might appear on the remake of the song written by Burt Bacharach and Carole Bayer Sager in 1982, before the famous 1985 cover that featured Warwick alongside Elton John, Gladys Knight and Stevie Wonder.
“It would have to be people I have some knowledge of,” she added. The documentary by directors Dave Wooley and David Heilbroner recounts Warwick’s six-decade career in both pop music and Black and LGBTQ activism.chronicles her journey from early gospel roots in New Jersey to becoming a top-selling female vocalist in the pop world. Warwick was also asked on Sunday what is required to become a legend.
“People make a legend. A legend is not something that I do. People generally designate who and what is and will be a legend,” she insisted.
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