Biography

Carly Simon has an unparalleled career that spans five decades of openhearted storytelling both in song and print. Joining the singer-songwriters of the early 1970s, Simon changed the public's conception of pop music to an honest, sensitive and intelligent craftwork. Simon's biggest success came with 1972's No Secrets which included "You're So Vain." The album sold millions of copies and occupied the Billboard charts for 71 weeks, peaking at #1 for three consecutive weeks.

Carly has released over twenty-eight albums of original music, multiple award-winning film scores including two Disney movies based on Winnie the Pooh, treasured children's books, two instant #1 New York Times bestseller memoirs, and composed Romulus Hunt, a family opera. Her hit songs include "That's The Way I've Always Heard It Should Be," "Anticipation," "You're So Vain," "Coming Around Again," and "Let the River Run" which was featured in Mike Nichols' movie Working Girl (1988), earning Simon an Academy Award, Golden Globe and Grammy, making her the first female artist in history to win all three awards for a single song as a performer and composer. She has been inducted into the the Grammy Hall of Fame for "You're So Vain", the Songwriter's Hall of Fame and was presented the prestigious Founders Award by ASCAP.

Carly Simon has had an indelible impact on popular music and continues to create, influence and inspire.
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The daughter of Richard L. Simon, co-founder of the Simon and Schuster publishing company, Carly got her start in music singing with sister Lucy Simon in the early '60s. After an unsuccessful attempt to launch a solo career, Carly burst onto the music scene in 1971 with her first Top 10 hit "That's The Way I've Always Heard It Should Be," which won her the Best New Artist Grammy Award and set the stage for an enormously successful career. After her second hit, "Anticipation," Carly roared to the top of the charts with her album No Secrets (1972), and its #1 hit "You're So Vain." Newly married to James Taylor, Carly piled up a series of bestselling albums, including Playing Possum (1975), which featured controversial cover art of a scantily-clad Carly, although there had always been a sort of subtle sexuality on many of her album covers before (and after); however, none were as blatant as this particular one. Her career marched on, and in 1977, Carly performed her first movie-theme, "Nobody Does It Better," from The Spy Who Loved Me (1977), and it became an international smash. Her sales high continued with 1978's "You Belong To Me" and the album Boys in the Trees (1978), but after the release of her hit "Jesse" in 1980, Carly's career started to wane. Although she released a series of interesting albums in the '80s, none of them were commercial successes. After her divorce from James Taylor, she also retired from performing live. But then in 1987, Carly wrote the theme for Heartburn (1986) - "Coming Around Again" - and her career was revitalized. The song was a big hit and the album of the same name was a best-seller and charted for well over a year. By that point, she was a legend and was then able to release albums at a more relaxed pace, which allowed her to be more adventurous in her writing and creativity. Since then, all of her work has been very well received, most notably "Let The River Run," which she wrote for Working Girl (1988) and won her her first Oscar. Carly's album The Bedroom Tapes (2000) reflected her personal trials more overtly than any of her other albums up to that point, particularly a case of writer's block as well as her breast cancer ordeal and the accompanying depression she experienced due to chemotherapy. Nevertheless, Carly is now healthy and content and remains a notable presence in the media and music industry, including her cameo on Janet Jackson's "Son of a Gun," as well as the televised tribute to The Beach Boys' Brian Wilson.
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Born June 25, 1943 in Manhattan, Carly was raised in Connecticut with two older sisters and a younger brother. Her father, Richard L. Simon, played Chopin and Beethoven on the piano. She attended so many Brooklyn Dodgers games with her father that she was made a team mascot. She once said if she could see herself in a ballplayer, it would be Pee Wee Reese; a shortstop is not quite in the infield and not quite in the outfield. Three of her uncles gained distinction in various fields of music. George, as an authority on jazz; Henry, as a musicologist and book editor; and Alfred, as the music director of a classical radio station. Carly attended Sarah Lawrence College, which she left in her sophomore year to form a folk duo with her sister Lucy Simon in early 1963, billing themselves as The Simon Sisters. Lucy eventually left the act and married her shrink. Carly's eldest sister Joanna Simon was a professional opera singer. Carly suffered from severe stage fright and one time passed out and collapsed in the middle of a concert in 1981. She married James Taylor in 1972 and they later divorced. A second marriage to writer Jim Hart ended in divorce as well. She has a son and daughter from her marriage to James Taylor.
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Carly Simon is an American singer-songwriter, musician, children's author.

Carly Simon was born in the Manhattan borough of New York City. Simon's career began with a short-lived music group with her sister Lucy, as the Simon Sisters. They were signed to Kapp Records in 1963, and released two albums for the label, beginning with their debut Meet The Simon Sisters. Later, Simon collaborated with eclectic New York rockers Elephant's Memory for about six months. In 1977, Simon had an international hit with the million-selling gold single "Nobody Does It Better", the theme to the James Bond film The Spy Who Loved Me (1977).
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Distinctive singing voice, which switches from soft to powerful