# I never knew they were \*that\* good - artists with under reported skills **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** music\ **Created:** [July 27, 2022, 6:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-never-knew-they-were-that-good-artists-with-under-reported-skills/968663 "2022-07-27T18:32:50Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 66
**Author:** ![solost](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/solost/32/11776_2.png) [@solost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/solost)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2022, 8:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-never-knew-they-were-that-good-artists-with-under-reported-skills/968663/66 "2022-08-04T20:03:03Z")
> [@CairoCarol](#): > > IIRC, sometime in the last 1-3 years a Doper posted quite a long and informative story about her life and the injustices she suffered. Was that you? It was a real eye-opener and completely changed how I felt about her as an artist, as well as providing an instructive and tragic tale about how familial, social and economic forces can interact in destructive ways. @CairoCarol, you’re likely thinking of this post: > [@The Carpenters: A (Re) Appreciation](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-carpenters-a-re-appreciation/950281): > > Dedicated to Karen, the first woman to make me cry [[Imgur] ](https://www.flickr.com/photos/68782016@N08/51434433656/) ”Love of beauty is taste. Creation of beauty is art.”, Ralph Waldo Emerson Yesterday Once More IT ALL started… the melancholy music, the sense of failure, the addiction, her body dysmorphia, all of this and more powering the most soothing and tragedy-filled contralto of her generation… it all started, and will end, with her brother Richard. Born in New Haven, CT to Harold Carpenter and Agnes Tatum … --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-never-knew-they-were-that-good-artists-with-under-reported-skills/968663)._