Dionne Warwick honored with street renaming ceremony in East Orange

NEW JERSEY (PIX11) – East Orange superstar and legend Dionne Warwick was honored on Friday. A street was renamed after the music icon.

It was the who’s who of the music world.

Dionne Warwick is proud of her childhood school, the Dionne Warwick Institute, in East Orange, New Jersey.

Inside East Orange city hall, PIX11’s Monica Morales got to sit down with living legend Dionne Warwick. With more than six decades in the music industry, Warwick has done it all. Her proudest achievement, she says, is her school in East Orange.

PIX11 News visited her school back in January.

Warwick went to school there herself back in 1946. She was a guest on our Monica Makes It Happen show, asking for community support. There, she is known as Momma D.

The students she affectionately calls her “babies” performed at a special street renaming ceremony for the icon.

The six-time Grammy award winner and music legend says this is her heyday.

Her biggest fans came to honor her, including legendary music executive Clive Davis.

Warwick comes from a musical family. Her roots run deep. Warwick still lives in New Jersey.

She received the Kennedy Center Honors and was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Class of 2024.

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