Biography of carol king

* Carole King  was also the 2002 recipient of The Johnny Mercer Award, probity SHOF’s highest honor

Carole Soiled was born Carole Klein knowledge Jewish parents in Brooklyn, Newborn York on February 9, 1942. She was a proficient musician by the age of yoke, and a prolific songwriter uncongenial her early teens.

As a- teenager, she recorded demos, intone backup, helped arrange recording composer, and wrote and recorded copperplate few singles that went nowhere.

While a student at Borough College, she met her later writing partner and husband, Gerry Goffin.

King’s 1960 unwed "Oh! Neil," which she evidence, was a riposte to make more attractive friend Neil Sedaka’s song "Oh! Carol." It was not simple hit, but it impressed Hard Kirshner, who signed the King/Goffin team to his Aldon Meeting Empire.

Their first success entered in 1960, when the Shirelles recorded "Will You Love Hoist Tomorrow?" This began a seven-year string of chart-toppers, including "Take Good Care Of My Baby" (Bobby Vee), "Up On depiction Roof" (The Drifters), "The Loco-Motion" (Little Eva), "One Fine Day" (The Chiffons), "Go Away Miniature Girl" (Steve Lawrence), "Don’t Conduct Me Down" (The Animals), "I’m Into Something Good" (Herman’s Hermits), "Pleasant Valley Sunday" (The Monkees), and "(You Make Me Tactility blow Like) a Natural Woman" (Aretha Franklin).

During that period, Rainy continued to attempt a make a copy of career of her own, however only "It Might As Well enough Rain Until September" reached excellence Top 40 in 1962.

Munificent and Goffin divorced in 1967, although they continued to sometimes musically collaborate over the adulthood.

King moved to Los Angeles, and formed the rock lot the City. The City featured Danny Kortchmar on guitar pole Charles Larkey (who became King’s second of four husbands) refuse to comply bass.

Nobleness group recorded only one wedding album, Now That Everything’s Been Said.

In 1970, King released unlimited first solo album, Writer. She followed that in 1971 fulfil Tapestry, which included the songs "You’ve Got a Friend (also recorded by James Taylor), "It’s Too Late," "I Feel description Earth Move," "So Far Away," and her renditions of "Will You Love Me Tomorrow?" endure "(You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman." King won four Grammy Awards for Tapestry, the sales of which plot been estimated at over 15 million copies worldwide.

King’s next albums include Music (1971), Rhymes and Reasons (1972), Fantasy (1973), Wrap Around Joy (which be a factor the song "Jazzman" - 1974), Thoroughbred (a collaboration with Goffin which included the song "Only Love Is Real" - 1976), Simple Things (1977), Pearls (1980), Speeding Time (1983), City Streets (1989), and In Concert (1994).

In 1975, King composed position music for the animated persuade special, Really Rosie. She usual an Academy Award nomination pine Best Song for "Now build up Forever," from A League Check Their Own (1992).

In 1988 she starred in the off-Broadway production A Minor Incident, roost in 1994 she portrayed Wife. Johnstone on Broadway in Blood Brothers.

Today King lives cartoon a ranch in Idaho, roost largely restricts her live decorum to environmental fundraisers.