Despite the similarity of their names, she should not be confused with poet Dionne Brand.

* Dionne Brand – A Map to the Door of No Return: Notes to Belonging

* Dionne Brand – No Burden to Carry: Narratives of Black Working Women in Ontario

* Dionne Brand – Sans Souci and Other Stories

* Dionne Brand – Rivers Have Sources, Trees Have Roots: Speaking of Racism

The 1997 film Love Jones capitalized on neo soul's success at the time with its soundtrack album, which impacted the Billboard charts and featured artists such as Hill, Maxwell, The Brand New Heavies, Me ' Shell NdegéOcello, Groove Theory, and Dionne Farris.

* 2008: Literary Editor of the portraits and presentations of a poet Joël Pourbaix, a short-story writer Hiromi Goto and a novelist Dionne Brand, Monitor ZSA, 2008, vol.

Dionne Brand ( born January 7, 1953 Guayaguayare, Trinidad and Tobago ) is a Canadian poet, novelist, essayist and documentarian.

Dionne Brand graduated from Naparima Girls ' High School in 1970, and immigrated to Canada, to attend the University of Toronto, where she earned a BA in 1975.

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Dionne Brand and Ginny Stikeman.

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* Listening for Something: Adrienne Rich and Dionne Brand in Conversation.

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Fierce Departures: The Poetry of Dionne Brand.

Grammar of Dissent: Poetry and Prose by Claire Harris, M. Nourbese Philip and Dionne Brand.

* Ball, John C. " White City, Black Ancestry: The Immigrant's Toronto in the Stories of Austin Clarke and Dionne Brand.

"' Me and the City That's Never Happened Before ': Dionne Brand in Toronto.

" Orality and the Body in the Poetry of Lillian Allen and Dionne Brand: Towards an Embodied Social Semiotics.

" The Language of Resistance: In her Poetry, Dionne Brand is Rewriting History in a Way that Saves our Humanity.

" Language to Light On: Dionne Brand and the Rebellious Word.

Notable artists and companies who have performed at SOPAC include Paquito D ' Rivera, the Tommy Dorsey Orchestra, Olympia Dukakis, Richie Havens, Yo-Yo Ma, James Marsters, Eddie Palmieri, Madeleine Peyroux, Paula Poundstone, Anoushka Shankar, Phoebe Snow, Angie Stone, Sweet Honey in the Rock, Dionne Warwick, and Nancy Wilson.

The show included entertainers such as Frankie Lymon, The Supremes, Marian Anderson, Louis Armstrong, Pearl Bailey, LaVern Baker, Harry Belafonte, James Brown, Godfrey Cambridge, Diahann Carroll, Ray Charles, Nat King Cole, Bill Cosby, Count Basie, Dorothy Dandridge, Sammy Davis, Jr., Bo Diddley, Rocío Dúrcal, Duke Ellington, Lola Falana, The 5th Dimension, Ella Fitzgerald, The Four Tops, Aretha Franklin, Dick Gregory, W. C. Handy, Lena Horne, The Jackson 5, Mahalia Jackson, Eartha Kitt, Gladys Knight & the Pips, Little Anthony & The Imperials, Moms Mabley, Johnny Mathis, The Miracles ( later known as Smokey Robinson & the Miracles ), Melba Moore, The Platters, Leontyne Price, Richard Pryor, Lou Rawls, Della Reese, Nipsey Russell, Nina Simone, Sly & the Family Stone, The Temptations, Martha Reeves & The Vandellas, Tina Turner ( at the time known as " The Ike & Tina Turner Revue "), Leslie Uggams, William Warfield, Dionne Warwick, Dinah Washington, Ethel Waters, Flip Wilson, Jackie Wilson, Nancy Wilson, and Stevie Wonder.

International stars have included Laura Pausini, Madonna, Janet Jackson, Amália Rodrigues, Björk, Abdel Halim Hafez, Dave Matthews Band, Lara Fabian, Willy DeVille, Amália Rodrigues, Lou Reed, Josephine Baker, Annie Cordy, Majida El Roumi, Linda de Suza, The Animals, Petula Clark, Bülent Ersoy, Can, Ewa Demarczyk, Celine Dion, Cher, Deep Purple, Diana Ross & The Supremes, Sammy Davis Jr., Diana Krall, Dir En Grey, The Doors, Elis Regina, Eric Burdon, War, Fairuz, Dave Gahan, Jeff Buckley, Robert Plant & The Strange Sensation, Jimi Hendrix, Judy Garland, Kraftwerk, Nana Mouskouri, Haris Alexiou, Olivera Vuco, Mika, Wings, Paul McCartney, Oliver Dragojevic, Paul Simon, Led Zeppelin, David Bowie, Sarit Hadad, Bob Dylan, Black Sabbath, PJ Harvey, Tori Amos, Lady Gaga, The Corrs, Lola Beltrán, Luciano Pavarotti, Mariza, Maysa, Liza Minnelli, Morrissey, The Shadows, My Bloody Valentine, Nelly Furtado, New Order, Nick Cave, Nina Simone, Patti Smith, Phil Collins, Pet Shop Boys, Roger Hodgson, Primal Scream, Stevie Nicks, KISS, Sabah, Scorpions, Simple Minds, Frank Sinatra, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Tereza Kesovija, The Beatles, The Cure, The Jackson 5, Barry Manilow, The Mars Volta, Stephen Stills, Yolandita Monge, Otis Redding, Red Hot Chili Peppers, The Rolling Stones, Tin Machine, Mika, Björk, Umm Kulthum, Zohar Argov, Dionne Warwick, Violetta Villas, The Velvet Underground, Leon Redbone, Leonard Cohen, Manu Dibango, Katy Perry, Christina Aguilera, Sid Vicious, James Brown, Alla Pugacheva, Lili Ivanova, Queens of the Stone Age, Arctic Monkeys, Miles Kane and Arcade Fire, Zdravko Čolić & Tangerine Dream among many others.

He interviewed over a thousand guests including Bob Hope, Tim Robbins, Mel Gibson, Chevy Chase, Duran Duran, Cilla Black, Steve Allen, Barry Humphries, Lou Rawls, Tom Jones, Brit Ekland, Cleo Laine, Tiny Tim, Kylie Minogue, Brigette Neilson, Audrey Hepburn, Elle Macpherson, Shirley MacLaine, Alice Cooper, BB King, Rob Lowe, Dionne Warwick, Patrick Swayze, Jerry Hall, Kirk Douglas, Olivia Newton-John, Phil Collins, Sir Bob Geldof, Peter Allen, Sir Peter Ustinov, David Bellamy, Kim Wilde, Michael Aspel, Sally Field, Charles Dance, Whoopi Goldberg, John Thaw, Quincy Jones, Priscilla Presley, Robert Downey Jnr, Mickey Rooney, Martin Sheen, M C Hammer, Lyn Redgrave, ZZ Top, Leo McKern, Kathy Bates, Jane Seymour, Darryl Hannah, Jeremy Irons, Jeffrey Archer, Edward de Bono, Robert Ludlum, James Wood, Diana Ross, Jackie Collins, Harry Connick Jnr, Sir Harry Secombe, Gloria Estafan, Gerard Depardieu, George Benson, Fred Schepsi, Colleen McCullough, Burt Reynolds, Billy Joel, Bette Midler, Ben Elton, Phyllis Diller, Alexei Sayle, Elliott Gould, Oliver Reed, Oliver Stone, Macauley Culkin, Spinal Tap, Robin Williams and Cindy Crawford and various Prime Ministers and politicians.

The 2008 St Lucia Jazz Festival featured international artists such as Wyclef Jean, Anita Baker, Angie Stone and Dionne Warwick.

Some of the best known guests to appear on Tonight Live With Steve Vizard included Bob Hope, Tim Robbins, Mel Gibson, Chevy Chase, Duran Duran, Cilla Black, Steve Allen, Barry Humphries, Lou Rawls, Tom Jones, Brit Ekland, Cleo Lane, Tiny Tim, Kylie Minogue, Brigette Neilson, Audrey Hepburn, Elle Macpherson, Shirely MacLaine, Alice Cooper, BB King, Rob Lowe, Dionne Warwick, Patrick Swayzee, Jerry Hall, Kirk Douglas, Olivia Newton-John, Phil Collins, Bob Geldof, Peter Allen, Sir Peter Ustinov, David Bellamy, Kim Wilde, Michael Aspel, Sally Field, Charles Dance, Whoopi Goldberg, John Thaw, Quincy Jones, Priscilla Presley, Robert Downey Jnr, Mickey Rooney, Martin Sheen, M C Hammer, Lyn Redgrave, ZZ Top, Leo McKern, Kathy Bates, Jane Seymour, Darryl Hannah, Jeremy Irons, Jeffrey Archer, Edward de Bono, Robert Ludlum, James Wood, Diana Ross, Jackie Collins, Harry Connick Jnr, Sir Harry Secombe, Gloria Estafan, Gerard Depardieu, George Benson, Fred Schepsi, Colleen McCullough, Burt Reynolds, Billy Joel, Bette Midler, Ben Elton, Phyllis Diller, Alexei Sayle, Elliott Gould, Oliver Reed, Oliver Stone, Macauley Culkin, Spinal Tap, Robin Williams and Cindy Crawford and various Prime Ministers and politicians.

As J. Peder Zane wrote in the New York Times in 1994, “ Whether it ’ s 3 P. M. or 3 A. M., there ’ s Dionne Warwick and her psychic friends selling advice on love, money and success.

In The Country Doctor ( 1936 ), a movie starring the Dionne quintuplets, Hersholt portrayed Dr. John Luke, a character based on Dr. Allan Roy Dafoe, the Canadian obstetrician who delivered and cared for the Dionne Quintuplets.

The romance theme was later given lyrics, and became the pop standard " Smile ", first recorded by Nat King Cole and later covered by artists as Sammy Davis Jr., Dean Martin, Tony Bennett, Trini Lopez, Eric Clapton, Barbra Streisand, Diana Ross, Michael Bublé, Petula Clark, Liberace, Judy Garland, Madeleine Peyroux, Plácido Domingo and Dionne Warwick, Michael Jackson and Robert Downey, Jr. ( included on the soundtrack for the film Chaplin ).

In 2007, she sang " Beecharmer " with Nellie McKay on McKay's Pretty Little Head album, and " Letters To Michael " with Dionne Warwick.

Dionne, Ezra Klein, Greg Sargent, and Eugene Robinson ), and some on the right ( including George Will, Marc Thiessen, Robert Kagan, Robert Samuelson, Michael Gerson, and Charles Krauthammer ).

They undergo spats about Murray shaving his head and Dionne finding “ cheap polyester hair ” in the backseat of his car, but they also bond over Dionne ’ s first driving experience on the freeway, inspiring a wistful admiration in Cher.

From 1963 to 2001, Marcel Dionne and Bryan Trottier were the only single-time winners of the scoring title, while Stan Mikita, Phil Esposito, Bobby Orr, Guy Lafleur, Wayne Gretzky, Mario Lemieux, and Jaromir Jagr had won it on multiple occasions.

Later in the Spring of 1963 Burke toured on Henry Wynn's Supersonic Attractions Tour with Sam Cooke, Jerry Butler, Dee Clark, The Crystals, The Drifters, Little Esther Phillips, Dionne Warwick, Johnny Thunder, " Little Julius " High ( later known as " Lotsa Poppa "), with The Upsetters Band and Theophilous Odell George ( known as " Gorgeous George "), who was emcee, to mostly mixed white and black audiences, including a concert at Atlanta's Ponce de Leon Park, two concerts on April 28, 1963 at the Montreal Forum in Shawinigan, Quebec,

While still with The Pips, Knight joined with Dionne Warwick, Stevie Wonder, and Elton John on the 1986 AIDS benefit single, " That's What Friends Are For " which won a Grammy for Best Pop Performance By A Duo Or Group With Vocal.

Lee Drinkard and the preacher's son, Mancel, were later married, and Dionne became the Drinkard family's first grandchild on December 12, 1940.

The demo version of " It's Love That Really Counts ", along with her original demo of " Make It Easy on Yourself ", would surface on Dionne's debut Scepter album, titled Presenting Dionne Warwick, which was released early in 1963.

" You're My World "-- recorded in no time by Black — was not released as a single by Warwick, but it did appear on a later album, Dionne Warwick in Valley of the Dolls, released in 1968.

In a 1983 concert appearance televised on PBS, Warwick states she was the 43rd person to record " Alfie ", at Bacharach's insistence, who felt Dionne could make it a big hit.

She is a great admirer of Brazilian music, and in addition to a summer house in Bahia and another in the Jardim Botanico in Rio de Janeiro Dionne performs on a somewhat regular basis alongside renowned artists such as Ivan Lins, Simone, Jorge Ben Jor, among others.

With the move to Arista Records and the release of her RIAA certified million seller " I'll Never Love This Way Again " in 1979, Dionne was again enjoying top success on the charts.

Warwick's longtime friend and tour manager Henry Carr acknowledged in a 2002 Biography Channel interview that " when Dionne was going through an airport and a child recognized her as ' that psychic lady on TV ' Dionne was crushed and said she had worked too hard as an entertainer to become known as ' the psychic lady '.

Dionne Warwick's second gospel album, " Why We Sing ", was released on February 26, 2008 in the UK and on April 1, 2008 in the USA.

On November 24, 2008 Dionne was the star performer on " Divas II " a UK ITV1 special.

" Alfie " went on to become a success for both Cher ( in 1966 ) and Dionne Warwick ( in 1967 ) in the States.