Carol King

The 70-year-old is the first woman to win the award, which honours lifetime achievement in popular music.
                                           

The Grammy winner co-wrote her first number one hit in 1960 aged 17 with:

Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow, recorded by The Shirelles.

King is best known for penning hit songs such as Aretha Franklin's

(You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman

You've Got a Friend by James Taylor.

US singer-songwriter Carole King is to be awarded the Gershwin Prize for Popular Song,

the Library of Congress has announced.

As a solo artist, King became the first female solo artist to sell more than 10 million

copies of a single album with her 1971 release Tapestry.

It topped the chart for 15 weeks and spawned hits :

I Feel The Earth Move, It's Too Late and So Far Away.... [img alt=]http://www.westindiesforum.com/Smileys/default/cool.gif[/img]

She is fantastic