Mark Brett remembers his future wife, Michelle Berting Brett, calling his bluff when he claimed to love The Carpenters, thinking he just said that to get on her good side: “Do you have a Carpenters ...

Karen Carpenter (1950-1983) remains, more than forty years after her death, a beloved and iconic figure in the music business. She was the frontwoman for the popular duo The Carpenters along with her ...

Vocalists Katie Noonan, Melinda Schneider and Abby Dobson are teaming up to present the Karen Carpenter tribute show, ‘A Kind of Hush’, at venues across Australia in April 2024. Noonan, Schneider and ...

Top of The World is The World’s Premiere Tribute to The Carpenters! Fronted by singer Debbie Taylor, her Karen Carpenter vocal resemblance is absolutely astonishing. She is backed by a seven-piece ...

Hear the Replacements (on Big Star), Sonic Youth (on Karen Carpenter), Stevie Wonder (on Duke Ellington) and more.

Mobile native Carla Williams says she fully understands how high a bar she was setting for herself when she began work on a Carpenters tribute album. What she didn’t necessarily understand was just ...

Carole King and Karen Carpenter never appeared on stage together, as far as Annie Masciandaro knows. “Karen covered a few of Carole’s songs, but they never sang a duet,” said Masciandaro, who sings ...

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 ...

When Marianne Murphy Orland first started singing, she was told she sounded like Karen Carpenter. That was high praise for the young singer, and words that she never forgot. As an adult, Orland was a ...