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Born 1942 in Manhattan, New York, American singer-songwriter Carole King has been active since 1958, initially as one of the staff songwrite...

Carol King Tapestry incredible album

Born 1942 in Manhattan, New York, American singer-songwriter Carole King has been active since 1958, initially as one of the staff songwrite...

From her time as a songwriter-for-hire in the 1960s to later solo and collaborative compositions, King has created a wide array of memorable melodies.

Carole King Stanley, Idaho 1992, Photo by Kurt Markus

Carole King at the Hotel Chelsea, New York City, 1971.

Musical tribute to two legends of modern music

Carol King 1970

The most surprising and pleasurable thing about watching Carole King perform with her dear friend James Taylor on their reunion tour Thursday night was how fresh it all seemed. Her music was not simply the soundtrack to my life in high school and college, when “Tapestry” burst onto the music scene and suddenly this Jewish...

Carole King, what a beautiful soul

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Odetta (b. December 31, 1930) is a singer and guitarist whose repertoire consists largely of American folk music, blues, jazz, and spirituals. She was an important figure in the revival of American folk music in the 1950s and '60s, and a formative influence on artists such as Bob Dylan, Joan Baez, and Janis Joplin. She was born in Birmingham, Alabama, grew up in Los Angeles, California, and studied music at Los Angeles City College. Having operatic training from the age of 13, her first…

Born 1942 in Manhattan, New York, American singer-songwriter Carole King has been active since 1958, initially as one of the staff songwrite...

Carole King has been inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame as a performing artist. King was inducted to the Rock Hall in 1990 with a

Carole King at home on Wonderland Ave. in Laurel Canyon, from sessions for the cover of Tapestry, released February 10, 1971, by Jim McCrary, my edit of original via Carole’s Twitter

How an "absolutely sincere" easy-listening LP recorded amid Laurel Canyon's early-'70s hippie bliss remains one of the biggest-charting (and universally beloved) albums of all time, more than 40 years later.

“The song wrote itself. It was written by something outside of myself through me.” Videos by American Songwriter CAROLE KING NEW YORK, NEW YORK 1989 She is one of the most successful female songwriters of all time. Even before her two-sided hit “It’s Too Late” and “I Feel the Earth Move” went to number one […]