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Carole King (born February 9, 1942) is a Grammy Award winning American singer and songwriter.Her career began in the 1960s when King, along with her former husband Gerry Goffin, wrote more than two dozen chart hits for numerous artists, many of which have become standards, and she has continued writing for other artists since then.
Her success as a performer in her own right did not come until the 1970s, when she would sing her own songs, accompanying herself on the piano, in a series of albums and concerts.
After experiencing commercial disappointment with her debut album Writer, King scored her breakthrough with the album Tapestry which topped the U.S.
album chart for 15 weeks in 1971 and remained on the charts for more than six years.In 2000, Joel Whitburn, a Billboard Magazine pop music researcher, named her the most successful female songwriter of 1955–99 because she wrote or co-wrote 118 pop hits on the Billboard Hot 100.
In 2005 music historian Stuart Devoy found her the most successful female songwriter on the UK singles charts 1952–2005.King has made 25 solo albums, the most successful being Tapestry, which held the record for most weeks at #1 by a female artist for more than 20 years until broken by Whitney Houston (for the soundtrack album The Bodyguard).
Her most recent non-compilation album was Live at the Troubadour in 2010, a collaboration with James Taylor that reached number 4 on the charts in its first week and has sold over 600,000 copies.She has won four Grammy Awards and was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame and the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame for her songwriting.
She is the recipient of the 2013 Library of Congress Gershwin Prize for Popular Song, the first woman to be so honored.
RecognitionIn 1987, Goffin and King were inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame.In 1988, Goffin and King received the National Academy of Songwriters Lifetime Achievement Award.In 1990, King was inducted, along with Goffin, into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in the non-performer category for her songwriting achievements.In 2002, King was given the "Johnny Mercer Award" by the Songwriters Hall of Fame.In 2004, Goffin and King were awarded the Grammy Trustees Award.King was inducted into the Long Island Music Hall of Fame in 2007.In 2012 (December 3), King received the 2,486th star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.In February 2013, King was awarded the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award.On May 22, 2013, President Barack Obama presented Carole King with the fourth Library of Congress Gershwin Prize for Popular Song, the first awarded to a woman composer.
The White House concert and awards ceremony capped off two days of events celebrating Carole King.
On Tuesday, May 21, 2013, the Library of Congress hosted an invitation-only concert at their Coolidge Auditorium in honor of Carole King.
The all-star tribute included performances by Siedah Garrett, Colbie Caillat, Gian Marco, Shelby Lynne, Patti Austin, Arturo Sandoval and King's daughter, Louise Goffin.
The following night at the White House King was joined by other star performers including James Taylor, Gloria Estefan, Emeli Sandé, Trisha Yearwood, Jesse McCartney and Billy Joel.