In the 30 years since she left us, Karen's singing has accompanied many people who are frustrated with love and spent many rainy days. No one has counted. This is not so much sad as singing quietly:
"It's like sailing on a ship with nowhere to go. Love has received my heart, just like a breeze blowing on the ocean.
When seagulls fly high, I know I am lost, and love is washed away with the drifting tide. Everything you get from love is a love song, because the best love song is written with a broken heart. "His father Bertram carpenter was born in China (190818 ~ 1988 10/5). His mother Agnes reuwer Tatum was born in Baltimore (191March 5 ~ 1996). After four years of long-distance love, they got married on April 9, 1935, and Richard was born in 1946.
He spent a lot of time listening to his father's records. His father likes listening to beautiful music, orchestras and classical music. Richard keeps listening to the radio. This music is very important to Richard's musical literacy. At the age of four, Richard began to learn accordion with his teacher at home, but his passion for music only came when he became interested in piano at the age of eight, and his playing skill was increasing day by day. By the age of fifteen, he was already a talented pianist. Because of his excellent talent, he could easily play any music in his hand. When his family moved to Los Angeles, Richard studied music at the University of Southern California.
Richard, her sister Karen and Wes Jacobs, who is in charge of bass and bass speakers, formed The Richard Carpenter Trio. Karen can play drums and sing at the same time, so they often play at weddings or dances. After they won the reputation of The Battle of the Bands in 1966 Hollywood Bowl, they recorded some DEMO tapes and began to visit record companies. They were at A&; Company M signed their first contract, and the first record: Offering, which was later renamed as Ticket To Ride, and was put on Top 100.
Richard is famous all over the world because The Carpenters became a hit. When Karen could play drums and sing at the same time, Richard retired from the background, and he contributed to the success of the whole orchestra. He is a behind-the-scenes chorus and a pianist, and he has written many moving songs, such as Yesterday Once More and Top Of The World.
After becoming famous, Richard sorted out some things that had not been a&; The songs released by M Company made up an album, and all the songs he selected entered the TOP40. For example, We've only just begun, For all we know, Rainy days and Mondays, etc.
Richard's intuition brought The Carpenters an amazing 20 TOP 40 songs (including 12 songs entering TOP 10), such as Super Star, Rainy days and Mondays, We've only just begun, Sing, Top of the world, Only yesterday and Yesterday Once More. In addition to these dark horses, Richard's talent is not limited to these. He knows how to skillfully combine musical instruments with singing. Because of this skill, he was nominated as the best producer of Grammy Award for four times. The Carpenters's works have been used as teaching materials by universities, including Stanford University. 1997 Richard was invited to give a lecture at Stanford University.
From 1976, for four years, Richard took sleeping pills because of insomnia. He took one or two pills every night. But he found that he became dependent on this medicine, so he used more and more drugs. By 1978, he had to take 25 sleeping pills a night to fall asleep. His hands are shaking so much that he can't play. In order to cure this annoying disease, he decided to cancel the Las Vegas concert that will be held in a week. Then he went to Kansas for medical treatment. Six weeks later, he has been able to sleep peacefully and has begun a new period in his freshman life.
After that, Richard returned to the studio and remixed some songs of The Carpenters. 199 1 published an anthology From The Top, and he also appeared as the TV series The Karen Carpenters Story(CBS, 1989). The film faithfully describes Karen's struggle with anorexia.
1987, Richard released his first solo album Time, in which all the songs were solo and chorus. The most striking thing in this album is When Time Was All We Had written by Richard for his deceased sister Karen.
1994, Ray Coleman published a biography of The Carpenters, titled The Untold Story Richard, and his second album Pianist-Arranger-Composer-Conductor, whose Chinese name is Richard Carpenter Brothers and Sisters Choir's Golden Piano Performance Album. Now it can be bought in major record stores in Taiwan Province. Richard reinterprets the popular songs in the past on the piano. This album shows the incomparable piano talent, which has moved many music critics.
Then The Carpenter was listed in The Harmony Illustrated Encyclopedia of Rock. However, when rock music was popular, The Carpenter's style was criticized as too soft, but now it has become a music group that everyone praises each other. This can be proved in the album "Chorus of Stars" released by 1994, which is an album in which many singers sang The Carpenter's famous songs.
In the 1970s, the singing group released many world-famous singles and records, including Goodbye to Love (1972) and Top of the World (1973), both of which were by Richard and his songwriting partner John Bettis *. The popular songs of the singing group include the works of Lennon and McCartney, Ticket to Ride (1970), Bonnie Bramlett and LEON RUSSELL, Superstar, 197 1), Brian Holland's Please Mr Postman (1974) and HANK WILLIAMS' jambalaya (jambalaya,/kloc-). Yesterday Once More is a classic in the concept album Now and Then (1973). 1980 They published Touch Me when We're Dancing. Karen Carpenter (karen carpenters) and her brother Richard Carpenter (richard carpenter) are famous for their unique Soft Rock style in American music. Her singing has a penetrating power of softness and firmness, and her feelings are profound; Her typhoon is simple, without the grandstanding costumes and gild the lily steps of today's big and small singers, and she completely conquered the audience by her voice. Karen carpenters has a beautiful voice, and her singing is kind and natural, slightly sad. Because of the multi-track recording technology, their records are very successful both in art and technology, and they are the masterpieces of contemporary pop music. These two sets of "Yesterday Once More" are their selected records, a classic of Zhang Yongyuan. It includes classic golden songs such as "Superstar", "Top of the World" and "The Past Comes Again".
God is always jealous of talented people. When we think of Carpenter, it is the best comfort to think so. This brother and sister group is undoubtedly one of the most successful pop music groups in the 1970s. They wrote countless good songs before ending their acting career in the early 1980s. Although my brother Richard was the first to show his musical genius, my sister Karen's almost perfect and emotional voice was deeply imprinted in our hearts.
Carpenter's initial road was not smooth, and their first demo with their friend Webs Jacobs ended in failure, but this did not bring any shadow to their future acting career. 1968, the brother and sister's first album "offering" got attention with the help of beatles' "Ticket To Ride", so like many famous singers at that time, they began to embark on the road of pop rock. But times created opportunities for Carpenter, just as America needed Shirley Temple in the 19th century, and America held Carpenter as a hero in the 1960s. Just when people are facing the uninterrupted riots on campus and streets, experiencing the biggest generation gap problem in history, and falling into helplessness and despair, this pair of brothers and sisters from Downey town, with mellow songs and clear outlines, who always love to sing love songs, became saviors. For a time, all parents and children began to listen to the same song "Why do birds, Sudden Appear, Every time you are near ..."
Carpenter used close to you to build a bridge between the two generations, and their love for life danced in the song. Throughout the early 1970s, Carpenter kept growing and gradually became the most famous pop music group in the world, recording numerous charts, such as "Rainy Days and Mondays", "Goodbye to Love", "We've Only Just begun" and "Top of the World", all of which were well-known songs at that time, and Grammy Awards came to their foreheads without hesitation. But life will never be smooth sailing. In 1975, Carpenter's consistent Pop -Rock route gradually became unfashionable, Richard and Karen were also troubled by their personal problems, Carpenter showed signs of dissolution, and Karen and Phil Ramone recorded a solo album together. But a few months later, the two brothers and sisters performed together again, and 198 1 year's Made in America was their best album.
Just when people thought Carpenter was going to regain his former glory, the tragedy happened. Unfortunately, she suffered from anorexia. Karen's tombstone is engraved with such simple words: a star on earth, a star in heaven. “A song for you ".Seventeen years later, Karen is still singing affectionately:" and when my life is over, remember when we were together, we were alone and I was singing this song for you!” Still the girl next door with a beautiful voice, as simple as her name Carpenter.