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Carole King

Biography

Born: February 9, 1942
City and Country of Origin: Brooklyn, New York
Music Background:
Awards: 1990 inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame; Grammy 1971 Record Of The Year, "It's Too Late;" Album Of The Year, Tapestry; Song Of The Year, "You've Got A Friend;" Best Pop Vocal Performance, Female, Tapestry
Top Recordings: "I Feel the Earth Move," "So Far Away," "It's Too Late," "You've Got a Friend," "Will You Love Me Tomorrow?," "Where You Lead (I Will Follow)"
Carole King Biography: American singer/songwriter/pianist Carole King was born Carole Klein in Brooklyn, NY where she formed a vocal quartet called the Co-Sines while attending Abraham Lincoln high school. While attending Queens College she made friends with Neil Sedaka, Paul Simon and Gerry Goffin. She and Goffin formed a songwriting partnership and eventually married. Together they labored in the now famous music mill in Manhattan's Brill building along with the likes of Paul Simon and Neil Diamond churning out hit songs.

Their first taste of success was the chart topping Shirelles hit "Will You Love Me Tomorrow" in 1961. Bobby Vee's "Take Good Care of My Baby" would soon follow as would "The Loco-Motion" a song written for their baby sitter Little Eva. Their next success would be the Chiffon's "One Fine Day" then they joined the Monkee craze with "Pleasant Valley Sunday." "Up on the Roof" would make the charts for the Drifters and later for James Taylor, while "Chains" would hit the charts for the Cookies and later the Beatles. Aretha would hit the charts with "(You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman and later Carole would also have a hit with this feminist anthem. Meanwhile she had a modest hit with one of her own creations the 1962 recording of "It Might As Well Rain Until September."

Unable to launch her own solo career she wound up divorcing Goffin with whom whe had 2 daughters and married Charles Larkey. Together they moved to the West Coast while Carole helped launch Tomorrow Records. They then formed a new group called The City and recorded the album Now That Everything's Been Said which proved to be a commercial failure. She followed this with a solo effort Writer in 1970, but it also flopped. She then rearranged some of her earlier material giving it a somewhat folk oriented flavor and placed them alonside some of her new material on the 1971 album Tapestry. The album immediately became recognized as one of the landmark productions of the singer/songwriter era of the early 70s remaining on the charts for an unheard of 6 years while selling over 13 million copies and winning 4 Grammys. Her 1973 concert in Central Park, New York drew over 100,000 people.

In th emid 70s King would once again untie with former hubby Gerry Goffin to write Thoroughbred with David Crosby, Graham Nash and James Taylor. She then married songwriter Rick Evans who died of a cocaine overdose a year later. She released Simple Things in 1977 and after releasing a collection called Speeding Time in 83 she took a hiatus in Idaho. After becoming involved as an environmental activist she returned to the music world in 1989 recording City Streets which she followed with Color of Your Dreams in 93.

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