Mary Chapin Carpenter Biography

Although many of these performers never achieved commercial success Carpenter was able to channel her anti-Nashville approach into chart success and industry awards by the early '90s. Carpenter was born and raised in Princeton NJ the daughter of a Life magazine executive; she spent two years of her childhood in Japan where her father was launching the Asian edition of Life. During the folk explosion of the early '60s her mother had begun to play guitar. When Mary became interested in music as a child her mother gave her a guitar. Carpenter played music during her high-school years but she didn't actively pursue it as a career. In 1974 her family moved to Washington D.C. where she became involved in the city's folk music scene. After graduating from high school in the mid-'70s she spent a year traveling Europe; when she was finished she enrolled at Brown University where she was an American civilization major. Following her college graduation she became deeply involved in the Washington-area folk scene performing a mixture of originals contemporary singer/songwriter material and pop covers.

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