Karen Carpenter’s velvety and calming voice enchanted millions during the 70’s, and she was part of the musical duo, The Carpenters. The Carpenters consisted of siblings Karen and Richard, and they were residents of New Haven, Connecticut.
Richard was born in 1946 and Karen in 1950. The Carpenters were one of the well sought after and highest selling American musical acts of all time. Richard and Karen Carpenter had 17 Top 20 hits, including songs such as Close to You, Rainy Days and Mondays, Yesterday Once More, and Goodbye to Love between 1970 and 1984.
They achieved 10 gold singles, 9 gold albums, 1 multi-platinum album and 3 Grammy awards. Karen’s silky voice and Richard’s lighthearted melodies and fastidiously created arrangements stood up dominantly against the louder, wilder rock music during their time.
Richard was the melodious lashing potency but it was Karen’s naturally graceful voice that made the Carpenters’ hits. Upheld from behind the drums to lead songster, she became one of the decade’s most instantaneously distinguishable female singers.
The Carpenters have had many prevalent singles over the years and still get played frequently on radio even now. They acquired quite a lot of awards during the early 1970’s including Best New Artist in 1970 and Best Pop Vocal Performance by a Duo or Group in 1971, and were acclaimed for many more. Between 1971 and 1975 they had a total of 814 concerts and had numerous TV guesting.
But there was a heartbreaking inconsistency between her public and private characters. Away from the spotlight, she felt dreadfully detested by her mother, Agnes, who favorited Richard even more, and fought with low self-esteem, developing anorexia nervosa in the long run, from which she never recovered.
She passed away only a month before her 33rd birthday in 1983. She suffered from heart failure caused by chemical imbalances supplementary to anorexia nervosa. Karen’s death was conceivably the starting point of the media circulating the actual effects of Anorexia Nervosa and Bulimia as maladies, and not just psychological problems, and this spearheaded many other personalities such as Lady Diana to admitting they also had eating disarrays.
After Karen’s demise, through the years, Richard released new albums comprising some unreleased materials and quite a few compilation albums apart from several TV shows and documentaries.
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