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Mary Chapin Carpenter Biography

Mary Chapin Carpenter is one of the most popular and richest Country Singer who was born on February 21, 1958 in Princeton, New Jersey, United States. Grammy Award-winning folk and country artist who released the smash track ‘I Feel Lucky..’ She was in Austin City Limits and the show Late Night with Grammy Award-winning country and folk singer who released the hit single ‘I Feel Lucky.’ She appeared on Austin City Limits, as well as on Late Night with David Letterman..

She composed songs for traditional folk musician She wrote songs for fellow folk singer Joan Baez..

Carpenter was born in Princeton, New Jersey, to Chapin Carpenter Jr., a Life Magazine executive, and Mary Bowie Robertson. She was the fourth great-granddaughter of the 4th Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States John Marshall through her maternal grandfather Harrison Marshall Robertson. She was also an eleventh great-granddaughter of Mayflower passengers Francis Cooke and Richard Warren, both through her maternal grandfather Harrison Marshall Robertson. Carpenter lived in Japan from 1969 to 1971 before moving to Washington, D.C. She attended Princeton Day School, a private coeducational prep school, before graduating from The Taft School in 1976.

The sixth single on Come On Come On, “He Thinks He’ll Keep Her”, was Carpenter’s biggest hit off the album, charting at No. 2 on Billboard’s Country chart and at No. 1 on Radio & Records’s Country chart. Written by Carpenter and Don Schlitz, the fast-paced song follows a 36-year-old homemaker who leaves her husband, and was inspired by a 1970s series of Geritol commercials in which a man boasts of his wife’s seemingly limitless energy and her many accomplishments, then concludes by saying, “My wife … I think I’ll keep her.” Carpenter said, “That line has always stuck with me. It’s just such a joke.” The single received a Grammy nomination for Record of the Year.

The divorce of her parents occurred when she reached 16 years old. She later got married Timmy Smith.

NameMary Chapin Carpenter
First NameMary
Last NameCarpenter
OccupationCountry Singer
BirthdayFebruary 21
Birth Year1958
Place of BirthPrinceton
Home TownNew Jersey
Birth CountryUnited States
Birth SignAquarius
Full/Birth Name
FatherChapin Carpenter Jr.
MotherMary Bowie Robertson
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Carpenter’s first album, “Hometown Girl” was produced by John Jennings and was released in 1987. Though songs from Hometown Girl got play on public and college radio stations, it was not until Columbia began promoting Carpenter as a “country” artist that she found a wider audience. For a long time, Carpenter was ambivalent about this pigeonholing, saying she preferred the term “singer-songwriter” or “slash rocker” (as in country/folk/rock). She told Rolling Stone in 1991, “I’ve never approached music from a categorization process, so to be a casualty of it is real disconcerting to me”.

Mary Chapin Carpenter Net Worth

Mary Chapin Carpenter is one of the richest Country Singer from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Mary Chapin Carpenter's net worth $8 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

She spent a large portion of her time during high school playing the piano and guitar. She then went on to Brown University.

She wrote an article in The Washington Times from December of 2008 through March of 2009.

Mary Chapin Carpenter (born February 21, 1958) is an American singer-songwriter. Carpenter spent several years singing in Washington, D.C. clubs before signing in the late 1980s with Columbia Records, who marketed her as a country singer. Carpenter’s first album, 1987’s Hometown Girl, did not produce any singles, although 1989’s State of the Heart and 1990’s Shooting Straight in the Dark each produced four Top 20 hits on the Billboard country singles charts.

Net Worth$8 Million
SalaryUnder Review
Source of IncomeCountry Singer
CarsNot Available
HouseLiving in own house.

The songs of Come On Come On had the qualities that would come to identify her work: humorous, fast-paced country-rock songs with themes of perseverance, desire, and independence, alternating with slow, introspective ballads that speak to social or relational issues. “Passionate Kisses”, a cover of fellow singer-songwriter Lucinda Williams’s 1988 song, was the album’s third single. Carpenter’s version peaked on the U.S. Country chart at No. 4, and was the first of Carpenter’s songs to cross over to mainstream pop and adult contemporary charts, charting at No. 57 on the Billboard Hot 100 and at No. 11 on Adult Contemporary.

After 1989’s State of the Heart, Carpenter released Shooting Straight in the Dark in 1990, which yielded her biggest single up to that point, the Grammy Award-winning “Down at the Twist and Shout”. Two years later, Carpenter released the album that, to date, has been her biggest popular success, Come On Come On (1992). The album went quadruple platinum, remaining on the Country Top 100 list for more than 97 weeks, and eventually spawned seven charting singles. Come On Come On was also critically acclaimed; The New York Times’s Karen Schoemer wrote that Carpenter had “risen through the country ranks without flash or bravado: no big hair, sequined gowns, teary performances…. Enriched with Ms. Carpenter’s subtlety, Come On Come On grows stronger and prettier with every listen.”

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Carpenter graduated from Brown University in 1981 with a degree in American Civilization. Carpenter played some summer sets in Washington’s music scene, where she met guitarist John Jennings, who would become her producer and long-time collaborator. However, she considered music a hobby and planned on getting a “real job”. She briefly quit performing, but after several job interviews decided to return to music. Carpenter was persuaded by Jennings to play original material instead of covers. Within a few years, she landed a manager and recorded a demo tape that led to a deal with Columbia Records.

Carpenter’s most successful album to date remains 1992’s Come On Come On, which yielded seven charting country singles and was certified quadruple platinum in the US for sales exceeding four million copies. She followed it with Stones in the Road (1994) and A Place in the World (1996), which both featured hit singles. In the 2000s, Carpenter’s albums departed both thematically and musically from her early work, becoming less radio-friendly and more focused on societal and political issues. In 2007, she released The Calling. She followed that with The Age of Miracles (2010), Ashes and Roses (2012) and the orchestral album, Songs From the Movie (2014).

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In the wake of Come On Come On’s success, Carpenter wrote songs for a variety of artists, including Joan Baez, who recorded “Stones in the Road” for her 1992 album Play Me Backwards after hearing Carpenter sing it live. She also wrote Tony Rice’s song “John Wilkes Booth” for his 1988 album “Native American”. Pop singer Cyndi Lauper co-wrote “Sally’s Pigeons” with Carpenter and released it on her 1993 album Hat Full of Stars. Country singer Wynonna Judd recorded Carpenter’s composition “Girls with Guitars” on her 1993 album Tell Me Why. Judd released the song as a single in 1994, in what Carpenter called “the most exciting thing that’s ever happened to me as a songwriter”, and it peaked on the U.S. Country chart at No. 10.

Top Facts about Mary Chapin Carpenter

  • Mary Chapin Carpenter is a Grammy-winning American singer-songwriter.
  • She was born on February 21, 1958 in Princeton, New Jersey.
  • Carpenter has released 15 studio albums throughout her career.
  • Her debut album “Hometown Girl” was released in 1987.
  • She has sold over 14 million records worldwide.
  • Carpenter’s hit songs include “Passionate Kisses” and “He Thinks He’ll Keep Her.”
  • She has won five Grammy Awards and two Country Music Association Awards.
  • In addition to music, she is also an author and activist for various causes.
  • Carpenter was inducted into the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2012.
  • She continues to tour and perform around the world today.
  • Facts & Trivia

    Mary Ranked on the list of most popular Country Singer. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United States. Mary Chapin Carpenter celebrates birthday on February 21 of every year.

    Despite a series of relationships, including one with John Jennings, the media made much of Carpenter’s single status throughout the 90s; in a 1994 profile, Entertainment Weekly even dubbed her “a spokes-singer for the thirtysomething single woman”.

    What happened Mary Chapin Carpenter?

    It’s about letting things go,” she drifts off. Carpenter, after 26 years of living in cities, resides in Virginia’s Blue Ridge Mountains which she claims is the ideal place for creativity; she goes “song-walking” (composing melody and lyrics) with her dog in the surrounding woods around her farmhouse.

    Why did Mary Chapin Carpenter stop singing?

    Four years ago, Mary Chapin Carpenter’s life — not to mention her music career — was thrown into question when she suffered a pulmonary embolism. Today, the folk singer is reticent to discuss the embolism or what she went through in regaining her health.

    Does Mary Chapin Carpenter still perform?

    Mary Chapin Carpenter is currently touring across 1 country and has 37 upcoming concerts.

    Who is Mary Chapin Carpenter's dad?

    Chapin Carpenter Jr.

    What did Richard Carpenter do after Karen died?

    Richard Carpenter, 49, still lives in Downey, Calif., near his mother. In 1984, the year after Karen died, he married his cousin Mary Rudolph and is now the father of four. In 1987 he made his own solo album, “Time,” a critical and commercial failure.

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