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  2. Mary Chapin Carpenter was born February 21, 1958, in Princeton, New Jersey. Her father, Chapin Carpenter Jr., was an executive for Life magazine. [3] When she was 12 years old, the family moved to Tokyo , Japan, and lived there for about two years, as her father was looking to begin an Asian edition of Life . [4]

  3. Carpenter was born in Princeton, New Jersey, to Chapin Carpenter Jr., a Life Magazine executive, and Mary Bowie Robertson. Carpenter lived in Japan from 1969 to 1971 before moving to Washington, D.C. She attended Princeton Day School, a private coeducational prep school, before graduating from The Taft School in 1976. Carpenter described her childhood as "pretty typical suburban", with her ...

  4. Oct 3, 2012 · Russ Harrington. Over the last few years, singer-songwriter Mary Chapin Carpenter 's life has been drastically transformed. In 2007, she suffered a life-threatening pulmonary embolism, her ...

  5. Sep 1, 2010 · Carpenter, 52, was born in Princeton and moved to Tokyo in 1969 when her father, Chapin Carpenter, a Life executive, was sent to the Asia bureau. The family relocated to Washington when she was 15, and she returned here after graduating from Brown in 1981. In the mid-1980s, after becoming a fixture on the local music scene, she signed with ...

  6. Mary Chapin Carpenter’s family tree includes a number of fellow celebrities, most notable of which is probably her 5th cousin, fellow singer and songwriter Harry Chapin. Other celebrities include actress Jane Fonday, actor James Spader, folk singer Pete Seeger, singer and songwriter Taylor Swift, actor Dick Van Dyke, actress Shirley Temple ...

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  8. Dec 12, 2020 · Mary Chapin Carpenter (born February 21, 1958) is an American folk and country music artist. Carpenter spent several years singing in Washington, D.C. clubs before signing in the late 1980s with Columbia Records, who marketed her as a country singer. Carpenter's first album, 1987's Hometown Girl, did not produce any singles, although 1989's ...

  9. Mary Chapin Carpenter was an unlikely country hitmaker, but her songs proved to be enormously popular with country fans, particularly in the 1980s and 1990s. Her father, Chapin Carpenter Jr., was an executive for Life magazine. Mary Chapin grew up in Princeton, New Jersey, but spent some formative years in Japan, where the magazine sent her ...