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Inside Dionne Warwick Bio Series: Teyana Taylor will play her.

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Dionne Warwick
Dionne Warwick

Fans cannot wait get the life story of Dionne Warwick and she herself can’t wait to introduce the film Dionne Warwick: Don’t Make Me Over directed by Dave Wooley and David Heilbroner to her fans. In an interview with the singer on CNN, she said she’s very happy for people to finally get to know the real Dionne, if people think they know everything about her, the truth will be shown in the documentary. Many people are about to be surprised by what they will watch in the series because they will hear everything straight from the horse mouth “her”. The documentary was narrated by Dioone herself, it comprises of pictures and videos from news about her career, it follows her from when she was just starting out in a gospel group with her family members, Dionne talked about the many prizes they’ve won as a group the many show’s they’ve performed and how good they were and when people started noticing how talented they were. The story goes on until she started her career as a pop singer who later turned into a household name, she worked with songwriter Burt Bacharach and Hal David.

Some of her family and friends were interviewed in the film, her sons Damon Elliot and David Elliot were interviewed, her celebrity friends were also interviewed, with the likes of Snoop Dogg, Elton John, Stevie Wonder, Melissa Manchester and Clive Davis, to name a few. The film was first premiered at the 2021 Toronto International Film Festival, after its release, Dionne Warwick: Don’t Make Me Over earned it first nomination at the People’s Choice Award the documentaries category, Dionne was later presented with Special Tribute Award. The documentary won two more awards, one at the Montclair Film Festival where it won the audience award for non-fiction and the second one at Gene Siskel Film Center’s Black Harvest Film Festival where it also won the Audience Award. TIFF was not the only place where the documentary was screened, it was also screened at the San Francisco International Film Festival, Santa Barbara International Film Festival, DOC NYC and Annapolis Film Festival.

Dionne Warwick

Dionne Warwick

Warwick’s fans are in for another surprise because the 81-year old singer is in the process of releasing a new bio series, she will be played by Teyana Taylor, the series will be a behind the scenes take on her life story. Warwick is very happy and love that Teyana will be the person potraying her in the series, she stayed they’ve talked with each other on the phone several times, she was surprised on how thorough Teyana was in researching her life, she said “ she knows more about me than me.”

In an interview with People’s Magazine, Teyana Taylor said this series will be the first time she will have try and bring someone else story to life, even though she’s really excited for this opportunity, she is under a whole lot of pressure to be able to do justice to the story.

 

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