She formed a band called The City but this failed, after which she collaborated with other musicians Joni Mitchell and James Taylor on her first album, Writer, released in Over the course of the s and s, Carole continued to make and release music, which was received with differing levels of enthusiasm.
She collaborated with various artists during this time, making songs for movie soundtracks until , when she starred in the off-Broadway production A Minor Incident. Carole performed in other roles on the stage, including the Broadway show Blues Brothers, but spent much of the s and s collaborating with new artists, including Celine Dion, Mariah Carey, Mary J Blige and joining back up with her friend James Taylor for a reunion tour together.
The Library of Congress awarded Carole with the Gershwin Prize for Popular Song for her body of work, making her the first woman to receive this honour. Carole had four children, two of whom were born to her and Gerry and the others to herself and Charles Larkey. Carole King performs at the Oakland Coliseum in Love Glastonbury? Is Parasite film on Netflix? Streaming guide for Oscar-winning movie Mary Wilson dead: The Supremes star, 76, dies suddenly at home. Carole King is one of the most successful and celebrated singer-songwriters of all time.
Carole began her incredible career as one of the staff songwriters at the famous Brill Building, and later as a solo artist. She is the most successful female songwriter of the latter half of the 20th century in America. She wrote hits in the States, and 61 in the UK. She was the most successful female songwriter on the UK singles charts between and Carole found fame as a performer in her own right in the s, including her iconic album Tapestry.
She has recorded 25 solo albums, and has sold over 75 million copies worldwide. She has been inducted twice into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, as a singer and songwriter. Carole King was born on February 9, She celebrated her 79th birthday in Her parents met in an elevator in at Brooklyn College, where her father was a chemistry major, and her mother was an English and drama major. Carole King has been married four times in total, but is not currently married. By the end of , King began to devote herself exclusively to singing her own songs.
Although her first solo effort, Writer , would prove to be a bust, her second album, Tapestry , released in , would go on to stay at No. Tapestry remained the longest-tenured album in the top spot until it was finally beaten out by Michael Jackson 's Thriller in As fellow songwriter Cynthia Weil said: "Carole spoke from her heart, and she happened to be in tune with the mass psyche.
People were looking for a message, and she came to them with a message that was exactly what they were looking for. Her follow-up album, Music , produced a No. Her marriage to Larkey lasted until their divorce in Soon after, she entered her third marriage, to songwriter Rick Evers, in They relocated to Idaho and lived in a tiny mountain town that fostered King's love of nature and inspired an environmental activism that would shape her life in subsequent decades.
However, although they collaborated on the album Simple Things , which would be among King's last to be certified gold, the relationship soured as Evers became increasingly abusive. The union ended when he died of a drug overdose in King's next two releases, Welcome Home and Touch the Sky , were not as well received as previous works.
She achieved more commercial success in with Pearls , which contained performances of earlier songs co-written with Goffin. Later, King mainly wrote singles for film, television and other artists, effectively ending her career as a singer for a number of years. The s and s saw a dip in her prolific songwriting, but not her active lifestyle. She also became involved in electoral politics, later becoming a strong supporter of Democratic candidates John Kerry and Hillary Clinton in and , respectively.
By the late s, King was ready to launch something of a comeback in the music industry. In , King recorded a well-received live album on her Living Room Tour. Blige and Fergie of the Black Eyed Peas.
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