This needs additional for. Please help by adding. Contentious material about living persons that is unsourced or poorly sourced must be removed immediately, especially if potentially or harmful. (November 2012) () Eric Carmen Birth name Eric Howard Carmen Born ( 1949-08-11) August 11, 1949 (age 68), Ohio, U.S. All By Myself Lyrics. All By Myself Eric Carmen. Produced by Jimmy Ienner. Album Eric Carmen. All By Myself Lyrics. When I was young I never needed anyone. ![]() ![]() Origin, Ohio, U.S. Genres,,, Occupation(s) Singer, songwriter, musician Instruments Vocals, keyboards, guitar, piano Years active 1967–present Labels, Associated acts,,,,,, Website Eric Howard Carmen (born August 11, 1949) is an American singer, songwriter, guitarist and keyboardist. He scored numerous hit songs across the 1970s and 1980s, first as a member of the (who had a million-selling single with '), and then with his solo career, including hits such as ', ', ', ', and '. Contents • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • Biography [ ] Early life [ ] From a family of immigrants, Carmen was born in and grew up in. He has been involved with music since early childhood. By the age of two, he was entertaining his parents with impressions of and. By age three, he was in the program at the. At six years old, he took violin lessons from Muriel Carmen (his aunt), a violinist of the. By age 11, he was playing piano and dreaming about writing his own songs. The arrival of and the altered his dream slightly. By the time he was a sophomore at, Eric Carmen was playing piano and singing in rock 'n' roll bands including the Fugitives, the Harlequins, the Sounds of Silence and the Cyrus Erie. Though classically trained in piano, Carmen became a self-taught guitarist. At 15, he started guitar lessons, but when his teacher's approach did not fit with what he wanted, he decided to teach himself. He bought a Beatles chord book and studied guitar for the next four months. Tenure with Raspberries [ ] Carmen became serious about being a musician while attending. He joined a band named Cyrus Erie, which recorded several unsuccessful singles for Epic records. Cyrus Erie guitarist had been playing with friends and in one of Cleveland's most popular bands,, which scored a minor national hit in 1967 with the single 'It's Cold Outside'. When Cyrus Erie and the Choir collapsed at the end of the 1960s, Carmen, Bryson, Bonfanti and Smalley teamed up to form, a band who were among the chief exponents of the early seventies style. Carmen was the lead singer of the group, and wrote or co-wrote all their hit songs. In 1975, after the breakup of Raspberries, he started his solo career, de-emphasizing harder rock elements in favor of and power ballads, which were already the hallmark of Carmen tracks on Raspberries albums. In 2004, Carmen, along with original Raspberries members Jim Bonfanti, Wally Bryson, and Dave Smalley, re-formed the band for a series of sold-out live performances in cities across the United States. On that tour, the Raspberries recorded a live album of their hits at The House of Blues on Sunset Strip, in Hollywood. Both the show and album received critical acclaim. Carmen himself has stated that he planned to write new harder-edged songs for the band to perform in the same vein as those that the Raspberries performed in the 1970s. Solo career [ ] His first two solo singles were chart hits in 1976. Both were built around themes. The first of these singles, ' – based on Rachmaninoff's – hit number 2 in the United States, and number 12 in the United Kingdom where it was his only charting hit. It sold over one million copies, and was awarded a by the in April 1976. The follow-up single, ' – based on the main theme of the slow movement of Rachmaninoff's – reached number 11 on the, and hit number one on the, as well as number nine on the chart. Two years after its 1975 release, this was certified Gold in 1977 for sales of more than 500,000 copies. ' was also a number 3 hit single for singer.
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