Biography of singer karen carpenter

Karen Anne Carpenter (March 2, – February 4, ) was an American singer and drummer who was most popular in the 70s.

She is known as the singer of the group the Carpenters.

Karen had anorexia nervosa, an eating disorder of extreme weight loss dieting. This was a little-known illness at the time. Although she had begun recovery with a doctor-supervised program and regained 30&#;lbs (14&#;kg), permanent damage to her body had been sustained from the years of extreme weight-loss dieting and she died at the age of The cause of her death was heart