Her lower register was unparalleled. I was only twelve when she died, so I didn’t really appreciate her exquisite voice until years later.
From all accounts, Karen was a gracious, humble but terribly insecure woman. I feel that her “cold” mother, who clearly favored Richard, was the source of many of Karen’s problems.
Yeah; from all I’ve heard, her mother was a hot mess bitch.
And my impression is that Richard was/is a weapons-grade control freak, that wouldn’t let her out from under his thumb.