A VOICE THAT STILL WHISPERS FROM HEAVEN — On what would have been Karen Carpenter’s 76th birthday, her gentle, golden voice rises again through every note of “Close to You,” “We’ve Only Just Begun,” and “Rainy Days and Mondays”—as if time itself paused to let her sing one more time. The little girl with the big drumsticks and the bigger heart, forever frozen in 1983, feels impossibly close today, wrapping broken hearts in warmth that death could never steal.
phil A VOICE THAT TIME COULD NEVER SILENCE: On Karen Carpenter’s 76th Birthday, The Music Still Feels As Close As Ever Every year,…