Karen carpenter songs biography book

After a severe hearing loss, I gave music up. My violin sounded like a screeching cat and most singers came across worse. Except for Karen Carpenter. To my ear she sounded like I remembered her before the virus attacked my cochlear. 

Karen’s sound has a way to a listener’s heart.

After my wife passed away, I listened to “I Won’t Last a Day Without You” and cried my eyes out.

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Later, I thought of the singer. Who was Karen Carpenter and why did she die at 32 years young?

That’s when I ordered Little Girl Blue: The Life of Karen Carpenter. The biography by Randy L. Schmidt is a well, researched bio of Karen’s life with a forward by Dionne Warwick, who nailed it when she wrote how Karen’s voice put a smile on her face.

Author Randy Schmidt conducted hundreds of interviews to report Karen’s life from her early childhood in New Haven, Connecticut to her high school days in Downey, California where she became an outstanding drummer for her high school band.

Not until did Karen