Jennifer Jean Warnes was born on March 3,1947 and is an American singer and songwriter who has performed as a vocalist on a number of film soundtracks.
20 Facts About Jennifer Warnes
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Jennifer Warnes has won two Grammy Awards, in 1983 for the Joe Cocker duet "Up Where We Belong", and in 1987 for the Bill Medley duet " The Time of My Life".
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Jennifer Warnes sang in church and local pageants until age 17, when Warnes was offered an opera scholarship to Immaculate Heart College.
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Jennifer Warnes was so committed to her Catholic faith that for a while she entered a convent after graduating from high school.
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Jennifer Warnes chose to sing folk music as it became popularized by Joan Baez in the mid-1960s.
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In November 1968, Warnes portrayed the female lead in the Los Angeles, California, production of the stage musical Hair.
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In 1971, Jennifer Warnes met Canadian songwriter and poet Leonard Cohen, and the two remained friends.
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Jennifer Warnes recorded a critically acclaimed album of Cohen songs, Famous Blue Raincoat, in 1987.
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In 1972, Warnes released her third album, Jennifer, which was produced by John Cale.
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In 1976, Warnes released the album Jennifer Warnes, which contained her breakthrough single, "Right Time of the Night", which hit number 1 on Billboard's Easy Listening chart in April 1977 and number 6 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in May 1977.
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Jennifer Warnes recorded the song "It Goes Like It Goes" for the 1979 motion picture Norma Rae.
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Jennifer Warnes's 1979 single "I Know A Heartache When I See One", was a Top 10 Country hit and reached the Top 20 on both the Pop and Adult Contemporary charts.
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Jennifer Warnes recorded the Randy Newman composition "One More Hour" for the 1981 motion picture Ragtime.
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Jennifer Warnes teamed up with Joe Cocker to record "Up Where We Belong" for the 1982 motion picture An Officer and a Gentleman.
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However, the Jennifer Warnes version made its return for the fifth season and the seventh season of the show.
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Jennifer Warnes teamed with Bill Medley to record " The Time of My Life" for the 1987 motion picture Dirty Dancing.
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In 1991, Jennifer Warnes recorded the Lennon-McCartney song "Golden Slumbers" as a duet with Jackson Browne, included in the album For Our Children which was released by Disney as a benefit for the Pediatric AIDS Foundation.
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Jennifer Warnes released her seventh studio album, The Hunter, in June 1992.
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Jennifer Warnes recorded the track "Cold Enough To Snow" for the 1993 film, Life With Mikey.
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In 2018, Jennifer Warnes released her first album since 2001, Another Time, Another Place.