Part of the legacy exists in the campy aspects of this purveyor of “polite plastic pop” (as one reviewer dubbed the Carpenters’ music in their prime). lang, Lea Salonga, Sandi Patty, Jann Arden, Shania Twain, Sonic Youth, and even Madonna. Karen put her musical stamp on a range of artists who cite her as an influential force: k.d. She is regarded as one of the finest female singers of the past century, and her legacy lives on in the music of those she’s inspired. She succumbed to a seven-year battle with anorexia nervosa and became the proverbial poster child for the mysterious eating disorder.Īdmired in her heyday by the likes of John Lennon, Barbra Streisand, and Elvis Presley, Karen has since found her rightful home alongside those and other timeless vocalists like Frank Sinatra, Nat “King” Cole, and Ella Fitzgerald (with whom she duetted during a Carpenters television special in 1980). At only 32 years of age, Karen Carpenter died of heart failure. The hits would likely have continued, but that lovely, inimitable voice - the muse for Richard’s genius - was silenced on February 4, 1983. The duo’s impressive string of 16 consecutive top 20 hits began in the summer of 1970 with “Close to You” and continued through “There’s a Kind of Hush” in 1976. Theirs was a matchless combination of Karen’s rich, mournful, smoky alto perfectly ensconced by Richard’s brilliant compositions and arrangements in a sweet swell of aural lushness. With a repertoire of classic recordings like “Rainy Days and Mondays,” “Superstar,” “Goodbye to Love,” and “Top of the World,” the Carpenters have gone down in history as the top-selling American musical act of the 1970s. “I’d give anything if we could do a song like that!” The girl who crooned “We’ve Only Just Begun,” the default wedding song for an entire generation, had grown up. Summer’s “Hot Stuff” was her favorite song at the time. “I love Donna Summer,” she told producer Phil Ramone upon arrival at his New York City studios. But disco was exactly what this velvety-voiced queen of unrequited-love songs had in mind. Do not do disco!” This was Richard Carpenter’s only commandment to sister Karen as she embarked on a solo recording career in the spring of 1979. On this, the 30th anniversary of her untimely passing, Randy Schmidt, the author of the acclaimed best-selling biography Little Girl Blue: The Life of Karen Carpenter, examines the legacy of the extraordinary singer with the heartbreaking voice and her enduring impact on other musicians and LGBT fans. Will also delete on comment score of -1 or less.February 4, 1983: The anorexia-related death of 32-year-old Karen Carpenter sent shock waves throughout the music industry and around the world. Parent commenter can toggle ^NSFW or ^delete.
Interesting: Looking for Love (Karen Carpenter ^song) | Superstar: The Karen Carpenter ^Story | The Karen Carpenter ^Story | Karen Carpenter ^(album) Richard has also expressed that he believes Karen was not willing to ingest ipecac syrup because of the potential damage that both the syrup and excessive vomiting would do to her vocal cords and that she relied on laxatives alone to maintain her low body weight. Carpenter's use of ipecac syrup was later disputed by Agnes and Richard, who both stated that they never found empty vials of ipecac in her apartment and have denied that there was any concrete evidence that she had been vomiting. The autopsy stated that Carpenter's death was the result of emetine cardiotoxicity due to anorexia nervosa, revealing that she had poisoned herself with ipecac syrup, an emetic often used to induce vomiting in cases of overdosing or poisoning. Her divorce was scheduled to have been finalized that day. The third finding was cachexia, which is extremely low weight and weakness and general body decline associated with chronic disease. The Los Angeles coroner gave the cause of death as " heartbeat irregularities brought on by chemical imbalances associated with anorexia nervosa." Under the anatomical summary, the first item was heart failure, with anorexia as second. She was taken to Downey Community Hospital, where she was pronounced dead 20 minutes later. On February 4, 1983, less than a month before her 33rd birthday, Carpenter suffered heart failure at her parents' home in Downey, California.
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