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Carly Simon

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Overview (2)

Born in Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA
Height 5' 10½" (1.79 m)

Mini Bio (1)

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 seventeen 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 inducted into 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.

- IMDb Mini Biography By: Larry Ciancia

Family (1)

Spouse James Hart (23 December 1987 - 2007)  (divorced)
James Taylor (3 November 1972 - 1983)  (divorced)  (2 children)

Trivia (22)

Has released musical albums (including CDs) on the Elektra, Warner Brothers, Epic, Arista, Rhino, Columbia, Hear Music and Iris labels.
Her song "You're So Vain" (released in late 1972) was a #1 pop hit in 1973.
Her father was the president and co-founder of the Simon & Schuster publishing house.
Children with James Taylor: Sally Taylor (b. 7 January 1974) and Ben Taylor (b. 22 January 1977).
Received an honorary degree from Berklee College of Music (Boston, MA).
Ranked #28 on VH1's 100 Greatest Women of Rock N Roll
Won the 1972 Grammy for Best New Artist
Son Ben Taylor is the lead singer of The Ben Taylor Band. They were the support for Sheryl Crow on her 2003 European tour.
In October 1997 she was diagnosed with breast cancer. She underwent a mastectomy, chemotherapy, and reconstructive surgery.
Carly's mother, Andrea Heinemann Simon, and Carly's close friend, Jacqueline Kennedy, died four months apart. Carly wrote "Like a River" for her mother and "Touched by the Sun" for Jackie. Both songs appear on her 1994 "Letters Never Sent" album.
In 2003 she held an auction for a charity on Martha's Vineyard at which she offered to tell the high bidder who the song "You're So Vain" is about. The winning bidder was Dick Ebersol, then-chairman of NBC Sports & Olympics, who paid $50,000. Ebersol had to sign a confidentiality agreement but was allowed to give one hint: The man's name contains the letter E. Carly has since added an additional hint: The man's name also contains the letter A.
In support of her album "Moonlight Serenade" (July 2005), she said would will be making public appearances, in direct defiance of her long-standing stage fright, about which she now says she "no longer has time for that negativity".
The third of four children. Brother Peter Simon (1947-2018) was a photojournalist; sister Lucy Simon (b. 1940) is a singer; sister Joanna Simon (b. 1936) is an opera singer, was an Emmy-winning arts correspondent for The Robert MacNeil Report (1975) and is the VP of Fox Residential Group real estate.
Is mentioned in the song "Life Is a Rock But the Radio Rolled Me" by Reunion.
In November 2001 "Let the River Run," her award-winning theme song from Working Girl (1988), was used in a memorable public service ad produced for the U.S. Postal Service. The ad, entitled "Pride," was a response to the 9/11 and anthrax attacks of 2001, and was intended to restore confidence and improve morale for the USPS.
Her father was of German Jewish descent. Her maternal grandfather, Frederick Adolph Heinemann, was of German origin. Her maternal grandmother, Ofilia "Elma Marie" "Chibie" Oliete/Ollright, was from Cuba, and was mostly of Spanish and African background. DNA research performed by the show Finding Your Roots with Henry Louis Gates, Jr. (2012) indicated that Carly is of 10% African and 2% Indigenous descent, meaning that her maternal grandmother was likely of around 40% African ancestry.
Carly's daughter Sally Taylor gave birth to Simon's first grandchild, Bodhi Taylor Bragonier, in 2007.
Inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1994.
One of the few singer-songwriters from her generation to own all her music.
Awarded the ASCAP Founders Award in 2012.
With her 1988 hit "Let the River Run" from the film Working Girl (1988), she became the first artist in history to win a Grammy Award, an Academy Award, and a Golden Globe Award for a song composed and written, as well as performed, entirely by a single artist.
Carly was not born in 1945 as usually stated, but in 1943. She and her sisters all fudge their birthdates.

Personal Quotes (10)

A really strong woman accepts the war she went through and is ennobled by her scars.
We need role models who are going to break the mold.
My scar is beautiful. It looks like an arrow.
My look was even more solidified when I started singing in Greenwich Village with my sister Lucy. We wore matching dresses as the Simon Sisters.
Sometimes, but the year I lived in France I started to write songs.
You know, people want to honor me, and on the one hand I just don't want to be a poster child; but on the other, I want to do something classy and great - something where the residuals will go to the cause.
I try to get to those peculiar and particular things that you never think of to say.
No, because I've never really changed my style that much.
We went to see all the shows. American musical theater and jazz were very big.
Sometimes my boyfriend would write the lyrics and I would write the melody, and other times I would start from scratch. Or sometimes I would take a local poem and put that to music.

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