# @girlnamednino on Instagram

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- **Posted:** 2024-12-09T00:53:24.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Nino Arobelidze

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Welcome to part 7 of SONIC DIVE: my new video series that tackles songs, songwriters and their legacy.

SONIC DIVE Part 7: Carole King 
(and songs you may not know she wrote)

American singer and songwriter Carole King has written or co-written over 400 songs that have been recorded by more than 1,000 artists.

Already an accomplished pianist by the time she turned 10, King began writing a multitude of songs by her early teens

She attended Queens College in New York, where she met Neil Sedaka, Paul Simon and Gerry Goffin—who became
Her first husband and cowriter 

 Carole King and her first husband, lyricist Gerry Goffin, wrote doo-wop and rock ‘n’ roll songs in New York City in the 1960s, many of which became hits and got them signed to Aldon Music empire, where they wrote

 “Will You Love Me Tomorrow” for The Shirelles

“Take Good Care of My Baby” for Bobby Vee

 “Up on the Roof” for the Drifters

“You Make Me Feel (Like a Natural Woman)” for Aretha Franklin

“Goin’ Back” for Dusty Springfield (and later The Byrds) 

 “Pleasant Valley Sunday” for the Monkees

 “The Reason” for Celine Dion 

King famously documented her relationship’s collapse in her 1967 solo song, “The Road to Nowhere.”

In 1968, she moved with her two daughters to Laurel Canyon in Los Angeles to join fellow musicians James Taylor and Joni Mitchell, among others, in a creative songwriting community

She met Toni Stern, a female lyricist, with whom she wrote the single, “It’s Too Late,” a song that would later become one of her biggest hits as a singer.

She penned the hitin 1997

In 2013, King made music history as the first woman to receive the Gershwin Prize for Popular Song. President Barack Obama gave her this honor at a special ceremony held at the White House

King was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in October 2021

Shoutout to inalikechina for suggesting caroleking ✊🏼💙🎶📺 for this Sonic Dive 
Cover photo by bindithefirst 
📍 Los Angeles
#SONICDIVE #CAROLKING #GIRLNAMEDNINO #BMI #SOMGWRITERS #WOMENINMUSIC #ROCKNROLLHALLOFFAME #gershwinprize #arethafranklin #musichistory #musicproduction

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