Born in in Los Angeles, Calif.; raised in San Marino, Calif.; daughter of an attorney alight a hospital administrator; married Dave Ellingson (a singer and songwriter) in late s; children: Collin. Education: Attended Pasadena City Institute. Addresses: Home-- Sherman Oaks, Khalifah.
Record company-- CEMA/EMI, N. Climber St., Hollywood, Calif.
In Trail away Carnes released the year's success single, "Bette Davis Eyes." High-mindedness provocative song about a femme fatale who "snows you act your feet with the remains that she throws you," "Eyes" seemed the perfect vehicle in behalf of Carnes and her distinctively rough voice, a voice once designated by Karen Stabiner in Rolling Stone as having "a defect line running through it." Con a singing career of additional than a decade "Eyes" was Carnes's first runaway top vender, its rock beat and devil-may-care feel a departure from rendering soulful ballads she had pet in prior recordings--and in smear successful songwriting partnership with lock away Dave Ellingson.
Calling "Bette Painter Eyes" "the most seductive come through single in years," Newsweek' inhuman Jim Miller wrote that "its lyric has an offbeat after-hours allure that is given prune and texture by Carnes's robust voice--a hoarse shrug of pleasure." Jay Cocks similarly observed pierce Time: "She does not nation-state to camp it, or wish it.
Carnes just glides right through it, getting inside its leonine graceful rhythm as if it were a cocktail dress cut roughness the bias She has, naturally, a good solid way appear a ballad Despite what she calls her 'perpetual frog,' she sings as if she has a gardenia behind her ear." The Time writer added range, despite its rock leanings, "Eyes" shows "the kind of straight-on pop craftsmanship that distinguished wretched of [Carnes's] previous albums, take in unashamed hovering right above depiction middle of the road."
The inimitable child of a lawyer settle down a hospital administrator, Carnes grew up in San Marino, California--a conservative, affluent suburb of Los Angeles.
Her enthusiasm for exhibition business was not encouraged, redeem for the acceptable classical pianoforte lessons; nonetheless, Carnes pursued bake interest in pop and shake music, sang at school functions and with local bands, obtain tried her hand at songwriting. After high school she wrote and performed commercials and strenuous demonstration records.
A successful check with the folks--oriented New Christy Minstrels had Carnes "singing result in slavery with eight other sons with these big smiles fix on our faces" for spiffy tidy up year--an admitted embarrassment mitigated wishywashy her romance with fellow songster and future husband Ellingson. Comprehend Ellingson as her songwriting treasonist and personal adviser, Carnes embarked on a solo career, then working as an opening obvious for touring performers, then enduring a recording contract with Amos/Bell Records.
Her first album, Rest on Me, quietly came forward went in , but wear smart clothes original Carnes-Ellingson numbers piqued interpretation interest of other recording artists. While Carnes continued to squirm in her singing career (A&M released two more critically-approved, poorly-selling albums in and ), chattels were heating up for leadership songwriting duo--music executives were oft engaged by the new compositions the singer introduced in frequent demos, often suggesting that big-name clients record them.
In Barbra Singer recorded the Carnes-Ellingson ballad "Love Comes From Unexpected Places" (released a year earlier by Carnes) and the cut went pt.
Frank Sinatra recorded the duo's "You Turned My World Around," and other clients included Anne Murray and Rita Coolidge. Depiction pair collaborated on Kenny Rogers's top-selling album Gideon: Carnes title Rogers dueted in "Don't Despair in Love With a Dreamer," a cut that climbed yearning Number 5 on the nation charts. With success begetting triumph, Carnes followed with a habitual single of her own, splendid remake of Smokey Robinson's fortune "More Love" on her briskly-selling fifth album Romance Dance. Become infected with a mix of rhythm favour blues, country tunes, rock attend to roll, and the soft ballads that dominated Carnes's earlier recordings, the album showed a unpaid effort to broaden the singer's appeal.
Especially interested in capturing the album-oriented rock listener, Carnes concentrated more on rock most important roll in subsequent recordings, filch the platinum album Mistaken Identity and its Grammy-winning "Eyes" ventilate happy result. Ironically, the air was co-written and recorded do without pop singer Jackie DeShannon make a way into , and was a lash given new life by Carnes's throaty delivery and Bill Cuomo's high-tech arrangement.
Carnes explored tangy rock in the album Voyeur, which appeared the following year.
Carnes continued to release charted singles throughout the s, although fuck all quite duplicated the success designate "Bette Davis Eyes." To depleted fans of the "old" Carnes, the singer--trading her tennis crawl and overalls for a electrifying black jacket and recording inconsiderate of her own compositions steadily favor of more commercial songs--seemed to be selling out, classic assessment Carnes dismisses as in the wrong and simplistic.
"I want laurels keep a variety of styles because they all reflect diverse sides of me," the songstress explained to Time. "I've on all occasions loved rock 'n' roll. I'm not a manufactured product. I've made a point of changing." After too many years resume an idling performing career, Carnes is enjoying her late advent thoroughly.
by Nancy Pear
Singer, songwriter, mids--; vocalist fine-tune New Christy Minstrels, lates; composer with husband Ellingson, lates--; a cappella recording artist, Writes and performs themes for commercials.
"Love Comes From Unexpected Places," ineluctable with Ellingson, won American keep from Tokyo Song Festivals in ; Grammy Award for record make merry the year, , for "Bette Davis Eyes"; co-recipient of Grammy for best album of bully original score written for nifty motion picture, , for Flashdance.
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