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The Carpenters were a vocal and instrumental duo, consisting of siblings Karen and Richard Carpenter. more...
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With their brand of melodic pop, they charted a record-breaking score of hit recordings on the American Top 40 and Adult Contemporary charts, becoming leading exponents of the soft rock or easy listening genre and ranking as the #1 Adult Contemporary recording act - with their record-breaking and -holding fifteen #1 songs - of the entire decade of the 1970s. It has been estimated that The Carpenters' album and single sales total more than 100 million units, easily making them high on the list of best-selling music artists.
Early life
Born in New Haven, Connecticut, USA, (lived at 55 Hall Street, New Haven, Connecticut), (Richard Lynn on October 15, 1946, and Karen Anne on March 2, 1950), the Carpenter siblings moved with their parents Harold (November 8, 1908 - October 15, 1988) and Agnes (March 5, 1915 - October 1, 1996) to California in 1963 and settled in the Los Angeles suburb of Downey, California, at 13024 Fidler Avenue (the house was razed for the 105 Century Freeway project). The Carpenters also resided at two other Downey addresses, 9828 Newville Avenue (the home the Carpenters bought for and shared with their parents), and 8341 Lubec Street (the home Richard and Karen bought and lived in without their parents). Richard had developed an interest in music at an early age, becoming a piano prodigy. The move to Southern California was intended in part to foster his budding musical career. Karen, meanwhile, did not manifest her musical talents until high school, when she joined her high school band (Downey High School, where an outdoor performance stage is dedicated in their honor) and found an interest in drums. She soon taught herself to play the drums and mastered them. Around this time she also realized her singing ability.
Early career
During the mid to late 1960s, the two attempted to launch a musical career but failed to gain a successful recording deal until the decade's end. In May 1966 Karen joined Richard in attending a late-night session in the garage studio of L.A. bassist Joe Osborn, where Richard was to accompany an auditioning trumpet player. Asked to sing, Karen performed and landed a short-lived recording contract as a solo artist with Osborn's fledgling label Magic Lamp. The resulting single included two of Richard's compositions, "Looking for Love" and "I'll Be Yours", but the label was soon defunct, bringing this promising start to a close. This single is now considered to be a rare collector's item. Only 500 were pressed at the time of release. Richard Carpenter owns five in near mint condition.
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