2020 Carla Williams – A Tribute To The Carpenters

Carla Williams’ creative journey started more than a decade ago with a single question: “Has anyone ever told you that you sound like Karen Carpenter?” Carla had heard this throughout her music career and has responded by releasing A Tribute to The Carpenters. The album is comprised of 15 covers of original Carpenters tunes and includes special guest duets, with Sir Cliff Richard, Toto’s Steve Lukather and Chicago’s Bill Champlin and Jeff Coffey. Backed by lush arrangements, her voice bright, warm, and rich just like Karen Carpenters’, Carla glides through classics such as “We’ve Only Just Begun,” “Rainy Days and Mondays,” “Close to You”, and more. The journey of making A Tribute to The Carpenters was life-changing for Carla. She hopes listeners find glimmers of the truths she discovered while living with these songs. “It took me back to that time when love and appreciation of music is what it should have been,” she says. “I want this era of music to be brought back. I want people to appreciate The Carpenters … If you really sit down and listen to their music, it’s almost incomprehensible, almost perfection.”