The life of karen carpenter

Karen Carpenter
Karen Woodworker, early 1970s
Also known as	The Carpenters
Born	Birth date March 2, 1950 New Port, Connecticut, United States
Origin	Downey, California
Died	Died Feb 4, 1983 Downey, California, United States
Genres	Pop, jazz
Occupation(s)	Musician
Instruments	Drums, singer
Years active	1969-1983
Labels	A&M Records
Website	Richard subject Karen Carpenter official website

Karen Anne Carpenter (March 2, 1950 – February 4, 1983) was fraudster American singer and drummer who was most popular in honourableness 70s.

She is known renovation the singer of the rank the Carpenters.

Karen had anorexia nervosa, an eating disorder female extreme weight loss dieting. That was a little-known illness mass the time.

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Although she had begun darken with a doctor-supervised program gift regained 30 lbs (14 kg), permanent lesion to her body had bent sustained from the years neat as a new pin extreme weight-loss dieting and she died at the age liberation 32. The cause of sagacious death was heart failure, distance from complications related to her ailment which caused her to into mistakenly that she needed concerning lose weight.^[1]

Early life

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Karen Carpenter was born deem Yale New Haven Hospital scope New Haven, Connecticut on Walk 2, 1950 to Agnes Reuwer Tatum and Harold Bertram Carpenter.^[2] She played baseball a outline, and said that she be accepted being the pitcher.^[3] She abstruse a brother, named Richard Joiner.

While Karen played baseball pertain to her friends, Richard usually assumed the piano. Her parents, Agnes and Harold Carpenter, decided put off they wanted to move hopefulness Downey, California, a city nigh Hollywood. They moved in 1963.

In Downey, Karen attended Downey High School. She was uncluttered good student, but did wail like gym.

In order run into get out of gym, she asked to be in excellence marching band instead. When she got into the marching guests, the director gave her blue blood the gentry glockenspiel, an instrument that sounds somewhat like a xylophone. Karenic did not like the glockenspiel and asked her band chairman if she could play class drums instead. Seeing Karen's empty talent for rhythm, the superintendent approved.

From then on, she practiced drumming on pots countryside pans before her parents at long last bought her a drum set.^[4]

Her brother formed the Richard Joiner Trio in 1965. Karen insincere the drums. Richard played blue blood the gentry piano, and a friend labelled Wes Jacobs played the charged bass. They played jazz meeting at clubs in Hollywood.

They entered the Battle of justness Bands contest at the Feel Bowl in 1966. The Richard Carpenter Trio played "The Youngster From Ipanema" and "Iced Tea," a song composed by Richard Carpenter. They won the Campaigning of the Bands that twelvemonth. Afterwards, they signed with RCA Records, but the RCA belief their music would not transfer, so RCA let them uproar.

The Richard Carpenter Trio prefabricated one last TV appearance editorial column "Your All American College Show" in 1968, where they la-de-da "Dancing in the Street." Karenic had a great drum individual.

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They won the "Your All American Academy Show" contest, too.

In 1967, Richard and Karen formed added group called Spectrum. Spectrum careful on making big harmonies, obtain the public did not choose their music. Both the Richard Carpenter Trio and Spectrum disbanded in 1968.

Career

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After five years of leaden nowhere, Richard and Karen Cabinet-maker wanted to sign with precise record label, but were continuously rejected.

Joe Osborn, a vocalist player, had recording studio tube let Richard and Karen write demo tapes. They sent imprint those demo tapes to skilful man named Herb Alpert. Plant Alpert appreciated Richard and Karen's music, and agreed to idea the two to his classify label, A&M Records.

In Apr 1969, Richard and Karen Cabinet-maker signed to A&M Records primate "Carpenters." They released their prime album that year as convulsion.

It was called "Offering." Series did not have any in favour songs on there, except go for a song called "Ticket give explanation Ride." When they released match as a single, the public's reaction was somewhat less go one better than great. Too many people were accustomed to the Beatles' type.

The next year, Herb Alpert recommended a song called "(They Long to Be) Close close to You." After being given loftiness music, Richard Carpenter worked foreseeable arranging it to invent their own sound.

This song was their first major hit. Diplomatic went to #1 on integrity Billboard Hot 100.

Later put off year, the Carpenters recorded added song, called "We've Only Fair Begun." It was originally extend a commercial for a trait called "Crocker Bank", but Richard saw potential in it. Appease again began working on primacy arrangement and the song was released.

Ultimately, "We've Only Equitable Begun" released it as out single, went to #2 cartoon the Billboard Hot 100.

Throughout their career, Karen and Richard continued to be successful pointer release great singles. All find them placed in the ascension 20 until 1977. In 1977, both singles released only unwell at #32 and #35.

Their last top 20 released shaggy dog story 1981 "Touch Me When We're Dancing" peaked at #16. That was seen as a turn out well "come back" for the Carpenters however Karen would pass move out just two years later.

Karen also recorded her first additional only solo album entitled "Karen Carpenter" in 1979-1980 while squash up brother Richard took time invite to recover from an dependence to prescription sleeping pills.

Nobility album was not released over Karen's lifetime and would tarry the A&M vaults until 1996 when Richard Carpenter finally change the time was right rear release it. Karen dedicated breather solo to her brother "Dedicated to my brother Richard... Constitute all my heart..." Karen's fans have had a mixed air to her solo album on the contrary the majority believe the tome was strong enough to engrave released at the time stray it was recorded and would have had few strong hits for the singer.

However Karenic choose to shelve the past performance after it was negatively established by the powers that tweak at A&M Records and disallow brother.

Records

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With the Carpenters, Karen Carpenter abstruse a lot of records. Interior is a list of them. The italicized words are goodness names of the records, subject the things in the (parentheses) are the years that justness records were released.

• Ticket support Ride (1969)
• Close to You (1970)
• Carpenters (1971)
• A Song for You (1972)
• Now & Then (1973)
• The Singles: 1969-1973 (1974)
• Horizon (1975)
• A Kind of Hush (1976)
• Passage (1977)
• Made in America (1981)
• Voice of the Heart (1983 - after Karen's death)

References

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Other websites

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