Carole King

Carole King is an American singer, songwriter, and pianist. As a singer, her album Tapestry topped the U.S. album chart and remained on the charts for more than six years. King's was most successful as a performer in the first half of the 1970s, although she was a successful songwriter long before and long after that. She wrote her first number '1' at 17 in 1959 and in 1997 she wrote "The Reason" for Celine Dion. In 2000 Joel Whitburn, a Billboard Magazine pop music researcher, named her the most successful female songwriter of 1955-99 because she wrote or co-wrote 118 pop hits on the Billboard Hot 100.