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Kim Carnes, née le 20 juillet 1945 à Pasadena (Californie) aux États-Unis, est une chanteuse américaine . Cette artiste à la voix rauque est notamment connue pour son tube planétaire Bette Davis Eyes (1981) en hommage à l'actrice Bette Davis.

Elle signe son premier album, Rest on Me, en 1972, suivi de Kim Carnes et Sailin'. Avec son mari, elle compose au cours des années 1980 des chansons pour Barbra Streisand, Frank Sinatra et Kenny Rogers.

Elle sort de nombreux hits pop et notamment les albums Mistaken Identity en 1981, Voyeur (1982) et Barking at Airplanes (1985). Elle prend part la même année à la chanson We Are the World avec le collectif USA for Africa, ainsi qu'à la B.O. du film Flashdance en 1983 avec le titre "I'll Be Here Where the Heart Is". En 1988, elle se tourne vers la country avec l'album View from the House. Dix ans plus tard, Kim Carnes revient avec Chasing Wild Train.

Son plus grand succès reste Bette Davis Eyes, sorti en 1981 sur l'album Mistaken Identity. Cette chanson a été écrite en 1974 par Donna Weiss et Jackie DeShannon et publiée initialement sur un disque de cette dernière, New Arrangement. Bill Cuomo remania l'arrangement instrumental avec des synthétiseurs pour la version de Carnes. Bette Davis elle-même fit savoir qu'elle était fan de cette chanson et remercia Kim ainsi que ceux qui l'avaient écrite.

Carnes a également repris en 1985 le single Into the Lens du groupe Yes.

Dès 1983, elle abandonne le synthétiseur et revient à une carrière beaucoup plus confidentielle, essentiellement tournée vers la musique country.

Source: Article "Kim Carnes" de Wikipédia en français, soumis à la licence CC-BY-SA 3.0.

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Kim Carnes

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Kim Carnes (born July 20, 1945) is an American singer and songwriter born and raised in Los Angeles. She began her career as a songwriter in the 1960s, writing for other artists while performing in local clubs and working as a session background singer with the famed Water Sisters (featured in the documentary 20 Feet from Stardom). After she signed her first publishing deal with Jimmy Bowen, she released her debut album Rest on Me in 1971. Carnes' self-titled second album primarily contained self-penned songs, including her first charting single "You're a Part of Me", which reached No. 35 on the Billboard Adult Contemporary chart in 1975. In the following year, Carnes released Sailin', which featured "Love Comes from Unexpected Places". The song won the American Song Festival and the award for Best Composition at the Tokyo Song Festival in 1976.

In her breakthrough year, 1980, Carnes was commissioned by Kenny Rogers to co-write the songs for his concept album Gideon (1980), and their duet "Don't Fall in Love with a Dreamer" hit No. 4 on the Billboard Hot 100, and earned the duo a Grammy Award nomination. Later that year, her cover of Smokey Robinson's "More Love", from her fifth album Romance Dance (1980), hit No. 10. The following year, Carnes released Mistaken Identity, which featured the worldwide hit, "Bette Davis Eyes". It became the best-selling single of the year in the United States, spending nine weeks at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100, going Gold, and won the Grammy Award for Record of the Year and Song of the Year. Mistaken Identity reached No. 1 on the Billboard 200, was certified Platinum, and was nominated for the Grammy Award for Album of the Year.

Carnes also had success with the singles "Draw of the Cards" (No. 28), "Does It Make You Remember" (No. 36), "Crazy in the Night (Barking at Airplanes)" (No. 15), "Make No Mistake, He's Mine" (No. 51), with Barbra Streisand, "What About Me?" (No. 15), with Kenny Rogers and James Ingram, "I'll Be Here Where the Heart Is", from the Flashdance soundtrack, and the Grammy Award nominated singles "Voyeur" (No. 29) and "Invisible Hands" (No. 40). Her other successes as a songwriter include co-writing the No. 1 duet "The Heart Won't Lie" with Donna Weiss (who had co-written "Bette Davis Eyes" with Jackie DeShannon); it was recorded by Vince Gill and Reba McEntire, and released on McEntire's 1993 album It's Your Call.

Her distinctive, raspy vocal style has drawn comparisons to Rod Stewart. Her most recent studio album is Chasin' Wild Trains (2004). As of 2017, Carnes was residing in Nashville and continues to write music.

Kim Carnes was born on July 20, 1945, in Los Angeles. Her father, James Raymond Carnes, was an attorney and her mother was a hospital administrator. Kim Carnes knew she would be a singer and songwriter from the age of three, despite the fact that she was not born into a musical family. "My mother didn't get my career, and my father, who was an attorney, didn't think singing and writing was even a job." As a four-year-old, Carnes "married" her next-door neighbor musician David Lindley. She grew up in Pasadena, California and graduated from San Marino High School in 1963.

Source: Article "Kim Carnes" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.

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