Early Life
Born Carol Joan Klein (she added the "e" to her first name) in 1942 to a Jewish family in Manhattan, New York City, King grew up in Brooklyn. She learned the piano, then began singing with a vocal quartet called the Co-Sines at James Madison High School. As a teenager dreaming of having a successful entertainment career, she decided to give herself a new last name (but only for her stage name), stumbling upon "King" in a telephone directory. She attended Queens College, where she was a classmate of Neil Sedaka and inspired Sedaka's second hit, "Oh! Carol". She responded with "Oh! Neil" and then with "Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow". At Queens College, she befriended Paul Simon and Gerry Goffin. She later married Goffin and they had two daughters.
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