[Congressional Record Volume 165, Number 3 (Tuesday, January 8, 2019)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page E16]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




 IN RECOGNITION OF THE FIFTH ANNIVERSARY OF BEAUTIFUL: THE CAROLE KING 
MUSICAL AND ALL THE AMAZING CONTRIBUTIONS THAT CAROLE KING HAS MADE TO 
                        NEW YORK AND OUR COUNTRY

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                        HON. CAROLYN B. MALONEY

                              of new york

                    in the house of representatives

                        Tuesday, January 8, 2019

  Mrs. CAROLYN B. MALONEY of New York. Madam Speaker, I rise today to 
recognize my dear friend Carole King, arguably the most prodigious 
singer-songwriter of our century, for the fifth anniversary of 
Beautiful: The Carole King Musical which is based on her life and 
career.
  Beautiful: The Carole King Musical opened on Broadway on January 12, 
2014. After its first season the show won a Grammy for Best Musical 
Theater Album as well as two Tony awards. In 2015 it opened on London's 
West End, garnering 2 Olivier Awards. The show is now entering its 
sixth year.
  Carole King launched her extraordinary musical career as a songwriter 
at the young age of seventeen with the song ``Will You Love Me 
Tomorrow,'' co-written alongside her then-husband Gerry Goffin. She 
continued to cowrite dozens of subsequent chart-topping songs until she 
wrote her first solo song, ``Baby Sittin,'' in 1967. She made her 
breakthrough as a musical artist in her own right when she released her 
album Tapestry in 1971, which stayed on the charts for over six years 
and was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 1998.
  To date, King has composed more than 100 hit singles and amassed 
numerous prestigious musical awards, including four Grammy Awards. She 
was the first woman to receive the Library of Congress Gershwin Prize 
for Popular Song, which she was honored with in 2013. She has also been 
inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame as well as the Rock and Roll 
Hall of Fame and was a Kennedy Center Honoree in 2015.
  In addition to her prolific musical career, King has also dedicated 
her exceptional abilities towards environmental activism and ensuring 
the conservation of American wildlife, parks, and wild places. King is 
a long-time resident of Idaho and began working with the Alliance for 
the Wild Rockies in 1990, testifying on Capitol Hill against 
legislation that would harm Idahoan natural spaces. She has also been a 
stalwart and outspoken advocate of the Northern Rockies Ecosystem 
Protection Act (NREPA), a bill I have introduced in every Congress 
since the 103rd Congress. King testified in favor of NREPA in 2009 
before the House Natural Resources Subcommittee on National Parks, 
Forests, and Public Lands.
  Madam Speaker, I ask my colleagues to join me in celebrating the 
extraordinary contributions of Carole King, whose environmentalism and 
musical talents have bettered New York and our nation and inspired a 
Broadway musical.

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