"Karen's voice had so much soul in it. And I think she bared that soul in her music, even though she wasn't able to do so in real life," Schmidt says. Richard Carpenter is married and is the father of ...

Got an e-mail yesterday about a local author named Randy Schmidt who's written a book about Karen Carpenter, Little Girl Blue. The book, from the very reputable Chicago Review Press, isn't officially ...

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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Karen Anne Carpenter (March 2, 1950 – February 4, 1983) was an American singer and drummer who was part of the duo the Carpenters alongside her older brother ...

Parkway, Suite A-120, Plano. July 9 at 7 p.m. Barnes & Noble, 2201 S. I-35 East, Denton. July 10 at noon. In 1989, a casual viewing of a made-for-TV movie changed the life of 13-year-old Randy Schmidt ...

RANDY L. SCHMIDT, a longtime fan of the soft-rock group the Carpenters, set out years ago to fill in "the missing pieces" of the Karen Carpenter story. The result of his research and interviews, ...

Anorexia had become a tyrannical force in Karen’s psyche, telling her that food was an enemy to be fought. Thoughts of food and the methods to eliminate it had become obsessive, dominating her day and ...

LOS ANGELES -- Forty-seven years ago at the American Music Awards, the Carpenters took home the Favorite Pop Group honor. All these years later, a journalist and a Carpenters' historian teamed up to ...

Thirty-four years after Karen Carpenter’s sudden and unexpected death at 32, the “many Karens” remains a subject that fascinates her fans, including Joel Samberg. But because Samberg is a published ...

Just as many Texas school districts are cutting back on arts programs, a Denton elementary music teacher has been named teacher of the year. "The most exciting part was to share it with fellow fine ...

This fall, Broadway audiences will get to know more about the women behind some of the most distinct voices of the 1960s and 1970s as bio musicals about Carole King and Janis Joplin open on the Great ...

Some tribute acts are impersonators. That is, they try to be the musician whose songs they are performing by slavishly recreating their mannerisms, appearance and vocal style. There’s a cottage ...