Singer-songwriter Carole King has become the first female to win the Gershwin Prize for Popular Song.
Singer-songwriter Carole King has become the first female to win the Gershwin Prize for Popular Song.
She's the first female recipient of the Library of Congress songwriting award.
Singer-songwriter Carole King started young: She was just 15 when she founded a doo-wop group with her classmates. The act never took off, but King eventually became one of the biggest-selling artists of all time. She tells the story of her career so far in a new memoir, A Natural Woman.