S Club Jo Hailed as Carpenter

Lost songs written for tragic Karen Carpenter are to be recorded at last…by former S Club singer Jo O’Meara.

Pop veteran Richard Carpenter, Karen’s brother and partner in The Carpenters, has asked Jo to sing songs he wrote for his sister which were never recorded because of her death from anorexia in 1983 aged 32.

Last night Jo, 26, from Essex – who sang lead on many of S Club’s hits – confirmed: “Richard has said that vocally I am the closest to Karen he has heard since her death. He has asked me to record some of the songs he had written for her. Karen has always been my all-time favourite singer.”

Jo is expected to fly to America to record the tracks with Richard, 55, early next year.

The Carpenters were one of the biggest-selling acts of all time, selling more than 150 million copies of Seventies hits like Yesterday Once More and Top Of The World.

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Credit: The Mirror

Posted: October 5th, 2005