While Carole King didn't need a bunch of influences to make her own classics, she knew some people had a better model for ...

Carole King has always been a true original, but her greatest moment of inspiration was taken from a single lyric she used to inspire a classic.

Her prowess at the piano had already wowed her classmates at James Madison High School (which has graduated such notable Jewish alumni as Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Bernie Sanders and Chuck Schumer), and at ...

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Taylor Swift, Kenny Loggins, LL Cool J, Pink, Sarah McLachlan and Talking Heads' David Byrne are among the impressive list of ...

Taylor Swift, LL Cool J, and Talking Heads’ David Byrne have all been nominated for the 2026 Songwriters Hall of Fame. They ...

Carole King was working on the 1971 album that would win her four Grammy Awards when a song came to her through what felt like almost pure inspiration. “The song wrote itself,” she said later. “It was ...

Taylor Swift the celebrity is such a magnet for attention, she can distract from Taylor Swift the artist. But Swift was a songwriter before she was a star, and she’ll be a songwriter long after she ...

Jaime King says Taylor Swift has found her person in Travis Kelce as she reacts to the engagement and discusses her bond with ...