Where is carole king

Carole began her incredible career as one of the staff songwriters at the famous Brill Building, and later as a solo artist.

She is the most successful female songwriter of the latter half of the 20th century in America. She wrote hits in the States, and 61 in the UK. She was the most successful female songwriter on the UK singles charts between and Carole found fame as a performer in her own right in the s, including her iconic album Tapestry. She has recorded 25 solo albums, and has sold over 75 million copies worldwide. She has been inducted twice into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, as a singer and songwriter.

Carole King was born on February 9, She celebrated her 79th birthday in Her parents met in an elevator in at Brooklyn College, where her father was a chemistry major, and her mother was an English and drama major. Carole King has been married four times in total, but is not currently married.

Her first marriage was with her songwriting partner Gerry Goffin from to Strident or not, old or new, the fact that King has been recording comes as a surprise. Now 76, she has long toyed with retirement. Even 18 months ago, she told an interviewer that she was no longer interested in writing songs. Indeed, she says she has spent recent years concentrating on a novel. I felt like I had nothing new to say. I wanted to add power to the ending.

Tapestry remained the longest-tenured album in the top spot until it was finally beaten out by Michael Jackson 's Thriller in As fellow songwriter Cynthia Weil said: "Carole spoke from her heart, and she happened to be in tune with the mass psyche. People were looking for a message, and she came to them with a message that was exactly what they were looking for.

Her follow-up album, Music , produced a No. Her marriage to Larkey lasted until their divorce in Soon after, she entered her third marriage, to songwriter Rick Evers, in They relocated to Idaho and lived in a tiny mountain town that fostered King's love of nature and inspired an environmental activism that would shape her life in subsequent decades.

However, although they collaborated on the album Simple Things , which would be among King's last to be certified gold, the relationship soured as Evers became increasingly abusive. The union ended when he died of a drug overdose in King's next two releases, Welcome Home and Touch the Sky , were not as well received as previous works.

She achieved more commercial success in with Pearls , which contained performances of earlier songs co-written with Goffin. Later, King mainly wrote singles for film, television and other artists, effectively ending her career as a singer for a number of years. The s and s saw a dip in her prolific songwriting, but not her active lifestyle. She also became involved in electoral politics, later becoming a strong supporter of Democratic candidates John Kerry and Hillary Clinton in and , respectively.

By the late s, King was ready to launch something of a comeback in the music industry. In , King recorded a well-received live album on her Living Room Tour. Blige and Fergie of the Black Eyed Peas. In , she linked up with longtime friend Taylor for the Troubadour Reunion Tour. The resulting Live at the Troubadour album hit No.