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Carole King
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American singer-songwriter and musician (born 1942)
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Carole King is an American singer-songwriter, performer, and author whose career began in 1958. Her musical style is associated with folk, pop, and classic rock. She has been recognized in the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame collection and the Hollywood Walk Of Fame collection. King has authored 35 works, including *Bookbinding with Coptic Stitching*, *Montgomery*, *Tender Tomorrow*, *Natural Woman*, and *Beautiful - the Carole King Musical Songbook*.
Her official website describes her as a songwriter, performer, and author. On Last.fm, her music has been played 20,564,600 times by 1,403,722 listeners. She maintains a social media following of 353,000. King has stated that the song is the center and key to her work, noting that without a good song, one has nothing by her value.
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Person · Open Library
- Works
- 35
Top works
- Bookbinding with Coptic Stitching
- Montgomery
- Tender Tomorrow
- Natural Woman, a
- Beautiful - the Carole King Musical Songbook
via Open Library + Wikidata
Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 1,403,722
- Total plays
- 20,564,600
Tags
Carole King Klein (born Carol Joan Klein; February 9, 1942) is an American singer, songwriter, and musician who has been active since 1958, initially as one of the staff songwriters at 1650 Broadway and later as a solo artist. Regarded as one of the most significant and influential musicians of all time, King is the most successful female songwriter of the latter half of the 20th century in the US, having written or co-written 118 pop hits on the Billboard Hot 100. <a href="https://www.last.fm/m
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- The ERA5 global reanalysis
· 2020 · cited 24,129x
- Human-level control through deep reinforcement learning
· 2015 · cited 23,703x
- The FAIR Guiding Principles for scientific data management and stewardship
· 2016 · cited 14,594x
- Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Black Hole Merger
· 2016 · cited 11,685x
- Global, regional, and national incidence, prevalence, and years lived with disability for 354 diseases and injuries for 195 countries and territories, 1990–2017: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017
· 2018 · cited 10,989x
via Crossref · CC0
Quotes
- “I'm a songwriter first, have always been, and probably always will be. Making the demo is a natural product of writing a song; after that, I'm happy to hear other people do it in other ways.”
- “The song is the center; the song is the key. If you don't have a good song you don't have anything by my value.”
- “Tonight you're mine completely, You give your love so sweetly Tonight the light of love is in your eyes, But will you love me tomorrow?”
- “I'd like to know that your love Is love I can be sure of, So tell me now and I won't ask again, Will you still love me tomorrow?”
- “All you have to do is touch my handTo show me you understandAnd something happens to me.That's some kind of wonderful.”
- “I want to be your loverBut your friend is all I've stayed.I'm only halfway to paradise,So near, yet so far away.”
via Wikiquote · CC BY-SA
Official website
Official Website of Carole King - Songwriter, Performer, Author | Carole King
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Encyclopedic overview
Carole King Klein (born Carol Joan Klein; February 9, 1942) is an American singer-songwriter and musician renowned for her extensive contributions to popular music. She wrote or co-wrote 118 songs that charted on the Billboard Hot 100 during the latter half of the 20th century and 61 songs that reached the UK charts, establishing her as the most successful female songwriter on the UK singles charts from 1962 to 2005.
In the 1960s, King and her first husband, Gerry Goffin, composed over two dozen hit songs for various artists, many of which remain standards. She transitioned to a solo performing career in the 1970s, following her debut album Writer (1970) with the critically acclaimed Tapestry (1971), which topped the U.S. album chart for 15 weeks and stayed on the charts for over six years.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Carole King” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.