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The pop legend, 80, regularly tweets her
thoughts on life, career and fellow musicians, sometimes
prompting responses that lead to heartwarming exchanges.
"If you are very obviously a rapper why did you put it in your
stage name?" Warwick asked Chance the Rapper in a tweet. "I
cannot stop thinking about this."
"I will be whatever you wanna call me Ms Warwick," Chance
responded.
The five-time Grammy Award winner was surprised Chance even knew
who she was.
It all started when Warwick saw her nieces and nephews having
fun on Twitter and wanted to join in. Once she got the hang of
it, Warwick decided how she would use her new platform.
"I'm going to do it when I have an urge to say something or feel
that I need to say something and/or ask a question, somebody is
going to answer it," she recalled telling her niece who showed
her the ropes.
Warwick, who is often referred to now as the 'Queen of Twitter,'
relishes bringing positive energy to social media.
"That's one of the things I'm enjoying more than anything else
in the world, that everybody's laughing with me, you know, and
that I think is something that has been missing," she said.
Warwick is also trailblazing with virtual concerts. Her first
was held live from home on Easter Sunday.
"I had a little bit of anxiety, based on the fact that I had not
sung in a complete year, and vocal cords are muscles and muscles
had to be exercised, and I don't do that," she said.
"I wanted to do a disclaimer, you know, there might be a couple
of squeaks, croaks," she said with a laugh.
She will perform a second show on May 9, which is Mother's Day
in the United States.
This year Warwick was nominated for the first time to be
inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, a late recognition
after nearly 60 hit songs including "Don't Make Me Over," "Walk
on By," and "Anyone Who Had a Heart," and selling over 100
million records since the early 1960s.
(Reporting by Alicia Powell; Writing by Richard Chang; Editing
by Rosalba O'Brien)
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