Dee Dee Warwick is an African-Americansoul singer, the sister of Dionne Warwick. She is best known for her hits during the 1960s, including the #13 R&B hit "I'm Gonna Make You Love Me", co-written by Kenneth Gamble and Leon Huff and later covered by Diana Ross & the Supremes and The Temptations. African Americans, also known as Afro-Americans or Black Americans, are an ethnic group in the United States of America whose ancestors, usually in predominant part, were indigenous to Sub-Saharan Africa. ... For other uses, see Soul music (disambiguation). ... Dionne Warwick on the cover of her Christmas album My Favorite Time of the Year Dionne Warwick (born December 12, 1940 as Dionne Warrick) was an American singer, best known for her work with Hal David and Burt Bacharach as songwriters. ... Events and trends The 1960s was a turbulent decade of change around the world. ... Im Gonna Make You Love Me is a soul song, written in 1967 by Kenneth Gamble, Leon Huff, and Jerry Ross. ... Reissue album cover showing The Supremes in 1966. ... The Classic 5 lineup of The Temptations, circa 1965. ...
Warwick is inescapably associated with those songs, even though she managed to build a career after leaving Bacharach and David that drew upon their style for other memorable recordings, such that she remains a unique figure in popular music.
Warwick bounced back with "Then Came You," a song she recorded with the Spinners, which topped the pop and R&B charts and reached the Top Five of the easy listening charts in October 1974, going gold in the process.