Dionne Warwick has revealed that she and Dolly Parton have a brand new collaborative gospel track on the way in which titled ‘Peace Like a River’.
Tamron Hall shared the information throughout an episode of her discuss present this week that featured Warwick as a particular visitor. “[Parton] sent me a song that she wanted me to record, and I said, ‘Okay, that sounds like a deal,’” Warwick stated when requested how the forthcoming collaboration happened.
“She’s such a sweetheart, I know her. And she sent me another song, the one that we’re going to be doing as a duet. It’s a gospel song called ‘Peace Like a River’. She wrote it, and I am very excited about this. I really am. I’ve done so many duets over the years, but this one’s going to be very special.”
While Warwick and Parton haven’t beforehand collaborated, there’s a familial hyperlink. As Hall factors out in the course of the dialogue, Parton wrote ‘I Will Always Love You’ – famously lined by Warwick’s first cousin, the late Whitney Houston, for the 1992 movie The Bodyguard. “It’s pre-ordained,” Warwick instructed Hall. “God’s got a purpose.”
Warwick has collaborated with a number of different artists lately. In 2021, she teamed up with Chance the Rapper for a duet titled ‘Nothing’s Impossible’. The identical yr, she additionally expressed a want to work with Taylor Swift.
On New Year’s Day, a documentary about Warwick’s life and profession, Don’t Make Me Over, had its tv debut on CNN. During the documentary, Snoop Dogg made an look through which he recounts being “out-gangstered” by Warwick early in his profession, as she tried to deal with misogyny within the Nineties hip-hop scene.
“She was checking me at a time when I thought we couldn’t be checked,” Snoop defined. Later within the movie, he stated: “Dionne, I hope I became the jewel that you saw when I was the little, dirty rock that was in your house. I hope I’m making you proud.”
Parton, in the meantime, just lately carried out with goddaughter Miley Cyrus on the latter’s 2022 New Year’s Eve occasion, with the pair mashing up ‘I Will Always Love You’ and Cyrus’ ‘Wrecking Ball’.