1.   And Carpenter is also trying to push women into related music careers.

2.   And how do you maintain a music career during a playoff run?

3.   Before he and Cooke began pop music careers, they were both gospel singers, touring with the Pilgrim Travelers.

4.   A native of East Orange, N.J., Hunter began his music career as a church organist at the First Reform Church in Newark.

5.   A native of East Orange, N.J., Hunter began his music career with a position as a church organist at the First Reform Church in Newark.

6.   But a music career was out of the question.

7.   But he is not about to give up his music career to slim down.

8.   But six years, a new pickup truck and new house for his mother later, he made the risky decision to go full time with his music career.

9.   But their individual music careers began long before.

10.   But there were flashes of humor, too, as he acknowledged the absurdities inherent in a decades-long music career.