16 Facts About Eric Carmen

Eric Howard Carmen was an American singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist.

Eric Carmen was the lead vocalist of the Raspberries, with whom he recorded the hit "Go All the Way" and four albums.

From a family of Russian Jewish immigrants, Carmen was born on August 11,1949, in Cleveland, Ohio, United States, and grew up in Lyndhurst, Ohio.

At six years old, he took violin lessons from his aunt Muriel Eric Carmen, who was a violinist in the Cleveland Orchestra.

Eric Carmen bought a Beatles chord book and studied guitar for the next four months.

Eric Carmen became serious about being a musician while attending John Carroll University.

Eric Carmen joined a band named Cyrus Erie, which recorded several commercially unsuccessful singles for Epic Records.

Eric Carmen was the lead singer of the group, and wrote or co-wrote all their hit songs.

For several weeks in the fall of 1977, Eric Carmen had three compositions charting concurrently on the Billboard Hot 100; Cassidy's two big hits and Eric Carmen's own "She Did It".

In 1985, Eric Carmen resurfaced on Geffen Records with a second self-titled album and a sizable comeback hit, "I Wanna Hear It from Your Lips".

Eric Carmen eschewed the use of a band on the recording, playing most of the instruments and programming the drum parts himself.

The album did not find a large audience, but Eric Carmen continued to enjoy success placing songs with other artists over the years.

On December 24,2013, the first new recording in over 15 years by Eric Carmen titled "Brand New Year" was released.

Eric Carmen was married three times: to Marcy Hill from 1978 to 1979; to Susan Brown, with whom he had two children, from 1993 to 2009; and to former newscaster Amy Murphy from 2016 until his death in 2024.

Eric Carmen moved from Los Angeles back to Gates Mills in northeast Ohio in the 1990s.

Subsequently, after Amy Eric Carmen's attorneys filed to have the case moved to Federal Court, they filed responses to these claims.