In her 20s she was skinny and healthy and she maintained weight of 120 lbs. ![]() As a teenager, she dropped at least 25 pounds on a popular and severe weight-loss program known as “the Water Diet”. Karen had a fixation with her weight from her earliest days performing with Richard. Burris, however, the marriage lasted only a year before they separated. In 1980, Karen Carpenter married real estate developer Thomas J. The album was released after her death, in 1996. Kare also made a solo album titled “Karen Carpenter” in 1980. Karen and Richard also made 17 top 20 hits, ten gold singles, nine gold albums, one multi-platinum album. ![]() The Carpenters won three Grammy Awards, embarked on a world tour, and landed their own TV variety series in 1971, titled ‘Make Your Own Kind of Music’ ion 1971. Soon Richard and Karen became one of the most successful groups, with Karen on the drums and lead vocals and Richard on the piano with backup vocals. Throughout the 1970s single after singles reached top of the charts. ![]() That pattern continued on their third album, Carpenters (1971), with three singles reaching the top 3 on the pop chart. The two tracks ‘Close to you’ and “We’ve only just begun’ peaked at No. After a year, they released another album ‘Close To You’, which was a blockbuster. The duo Carpenters released their first album ‘Offering’ in 1969, however, it failed to catch the public’s attention.
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