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Sheila E., Cindy Blackman Santana on the late Karen Carpenter's oft-forgotten legacy: 'Her drumming was not given more attention — the attention it deserved'

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Karen Carpenter plays the drums in the early 1970s. (Photo: Doug Griffin/Toronto Star via Getty Images) (Doug Griffin via Getty ...
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From 1983: Karen Carpenter, 32, Is Dead; Singer Teamed With Brother

The Carpenters sold more than 30 million records with the irresistible combination of her soft-rock contralto and her brother’s lush arrangements. Karen Carpenter performing around ...
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Sheila E., Cindy Blackman Santana on the late Karen Carpenter's oft-forgotten legacy: 'Her drumming was not given more attention — the attention it deserved'

Forty years ago, on Feb. 4, 1983, Karen Carpenter, the dulcet-voiced singer of soft-rock sibling duo the Carpenters, died at the tragically young age of 32 from heart failure, a complication of the ...