Biography karen carpenter
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After a severe hearing loss, inom gave music up. My violin sounded like a screeching katt and most singers came across worse. Except for Karen Carpenter. To my ear she sounded like I remembered her before the virus attacked my cochlear.
Karen’s sound has a way to a listener’s heart. After my wife passed away, I listened to “I Won’t Last a Day Without You” and cried my eyes out. Later, inom thought of the singer. Who was Karen Carpenter and why did she die at 32 years young?
That’s when I ordered Little Girl Blue: The Life of Karen Carpenter. The biography bygd Randy L. Schmidt is a well, researched bio of Karen’s life with a forward bygd Dionne Warwick, who nailed it when she wrote how Karen’s voice put a smile on her face.
Author Randy Schmidt conducted hundreds of interviews to report Karen’s life from her early childhood in New Haven, Connecticut to her high school days in Downey, California where she became an outstanding drummer for her high school band. Not until did Karen
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Karen Carpenter
American singer and drummer (–)
Musical artist
Karen Anne Carpenter (March 2, – February 4, ) was an American singer and drummer who formed half of the highly successful duo The Carpenters with her older brother Richard.[1] With a distinctive three-octavecontralto range, she was praised by her peers for her vocal skills.[2][3][4][5] Carpenter's work continues to attract praise, including appearing on Rolling Stone's list of the greatest singers of all time.
Carpenter was born in New Haven, Connecticut, and moved to Downey, California, in with her family. She began to study the drums in high school and joined the Long Beach State choir after graduating. After several years of touring and recording, the Carpenters were signed to A&M Records in , achieving enormous commercial and critical success throughout the s. Initially, Carpenter was the band's full-time drummer, but she gradually took the role of
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The tragic story of Karen Carpenter, one of the greatest vocalists of all time
Did she release any solo albums?
Karen Carpenter solo - If I Had You - HD - Carpenters
Carpenter released her first solo single 'Looking For Love' in , but only copies were made.
In , when Richard took a year off to treat his addiction, Karen wanted to make a solo album with producer Phil Ramone. Several sessions produced music that was quite different from the usual Carpenters output, focusing on disco and up-tempo tracks.
The album met with a negative reaction from Richard and A&M executives in early The album was then shelved altogether by A&M Records co-owner Herb Alpert, despite attempts by producer Quincy Jones to convince him to release it after a fresh remix.
A small section of the solo album was released in , when some of its tracks (remixed by Richard) were featured on the album Lovelines.
In , the complete album, titled simply Karen Carpenter, was finally releas