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Kim Carnes
12+ albums
pop80sfemale vocalistssoft rockrock
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Kim Carnes (born July 20, 1945) is an American singer and songwriter best known for her 1981 single "Bette Davis Eyes". She began a solo career as a songwriter and performer in the early 1970s and also worked as a session background singer with Maxine Waters Willard and Julia Waters Tillman, later featured in the 2013 documentary "20 Feet from Stardom". In 1971, Carnes released her debut album "Rest on Me". Her self-titled second album, "Kim Carnes" (1975), included her first charting single, "You're a Part of Me", which reached number 32 on the Billboard Adult Contemporary chart. The following year she released "Sailin'", which included "Love Comes from Unexpected Places"; the song won the American Song Festival and the Best Composition award at the Tokyo Song Festival in 1976. In 1980, Carnes and her husband David Ellingson were commissioned by Kenny Rogers to co-write songs for his concept album "Gideon". Her duet with Rogers, "Don't Fall in Love with a Dreamer", reached number four on the Billboard Hot 100 and received a Grammy Award nomination. Later that year, her cover of Smokey Robinson’s "More Love", from her album "Romance Dance", reached number ten. In 1981, she released "Mistaken Identity", which included "Bette Davis Eyes". The single became a major international success and the best-selling single of the year in the United States, spending nine weeks at number one on the Billboard Hot 100 and receiving Grammy Awards for Record of the Year and Song of the Year.
top songs
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Bette Davis Eyes
838,1342Bette Davis Eyes - Re-Recorded
30,8503Bette Davis Eyes - Radio Edit; 1997 Remastered Version
22,0674More Love
20,2685I'll Be Here Where the Heart Is
15,1536Betty Davis Eyes
12,4567Bette Davis Eyes - Rerecorded
11,3548Mistaken Identity
11,3479Crazy in the Night (Barking at Airplanes)
11,29710Draw Of The Cards
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