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Carly Simon is an American singer, composer, songwriter, and guitarist born in The Bronx on June 25, 1943. She is a member of the Democratic Party and has been recognized with the Grammy Award for Best New Artist, induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, and the Academy Award for Best Original Song. Simon’s musical career spans genres including pop, adult contemporary, blues rock, electronic, and jazz. She has recorded for Arista Records, Elektra, and Epic Records.
Simon was educated at Sarah Lawrence College and performs as a contralto using guitar, piano, and voice. She is the daughter of Richard L. Simon and Andrea Heinemann Simon, and the sibling of Joanna Simon and Lucy Simon. Her spouse is James Taylor. Her published works include *Take Me Out to the Ball Game*, *Consumer Behavior*, and *Let the River Run Choral Octavo*.
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Person · Open Library
- Works
- 36
Top works
- Take Me Out to the Ball Game
- Consumer Behavior
- Let the River Run Choral Octavo
- Selections from Carly Simon - Anthology (Songbook)
- Selections from Carly Simon - Anthology
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Film & TV
Acting · Bronx, New York City, New York, USA
Carly Elisabeth Simon (born June 25, 1945) is an American singer-songwriter, musician, and children's author. After a brief stint with her sister Lucy Simon as duo group the Simon Sisters, she found great success as a solo artist with her 1971 self-titled debut album Carly Simon, which won her the Grammy Award for Best New Artist, and spawned her first Top 10 single, "That's the Way I've Always…
Known for
- Sean Combs: The Reckoning — Self (archive footage)2025
- The Sound of 007 — Self (archive footage)2022
- 2022 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony — Self - Inductee (archive footage)2022
- A Painter Who Farms — Herself2018
- Classic Albums: Carly Simon - No Secrets — Self2017
- Jackie Robinson — Self2016
- The Late Show with Stephen Colbert — Self - Musical Guest2015
- Greenwich Village: Music That Defined a Generation — Self2013
- Marvin Hamlisch: What He Did For Love — Self2013
- Finding Your Roots — Self2012
via TMDB
Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Female
- Origin
- United States
- Active from
- 1943
Discography
Member of
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 1,488,862
- Total plays
- 15,368,568
Tags
Carly Simon (born Carly Elisabeth Simon on 25 June 1943: - New York City, USA) is an American singer, musician, songwriter, and children's author. She rose to fame in the 1970s with a string of hit records, and has since been the recipient of two Grammy Awards, an Academy Award, and a Golden Globe Award for her work. Throughout her career, she has amassed a total of 13 Top 40 Hits including "You're So Vain", "Nobody Does It Better" and "Coming Around Again". <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Ca
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Moderated estimation of fold change and dispersion for RNA-seq data with DESeq2
· 2014 · cited 88,573x
- Measuring inconsistency in meta-analyses
· 2003 · cited 52,676x
- Highly accurate protein structure prediction with AlphaFold
· 2021 · cited 43,635x
- PRISMA Extension for Scoping Reviews (PRISMA-ScR): Checklist and Explanation
· 2018 · cited 36,285x
- Quantifying heterogeneity in a meta‐analysis
· 2002 · cited 32,056x
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Quotes
- “…I would say it's not not about Warren Beatty. But I can't understand why there's been such intense interest about this over the years and I don't really want to play into that. To me, it's not an issue. It's a kind of a fun riddle.”
- “You know, that's so much a part of life, being able to embrace the broken heart, not just cast it off as having no meaning or trying to get rid of it. I think in the book gives a very good journey through the way I handled things that were desperately frightening for me.”
- “I grew up with lots of mystery in my house…I was always feeling on shaky ground when I was growing up. I didn’t know what was what, and that led me to feel very insecure.”
- “I think of that time a lot…It’s part of my blood, my bones, all the liquid in my body. I’ve just taken him in so he’s in my core.”
- “I pretended I was Cat Stevens. I started out with very Cat Stevensy chords, very abrupt. I was so stuck in the moment of being fearful so as a lesson to myself I said: ‘but we can never know about the days to come’. I didn’t know when the door-bell was going to ring. I liked that. It was all of a sudden a quarter to eight and I had written the whole song.”
- “Fear came in so much in my life that it did everything but completely stop me. When I was a little girl, I so wanted to be sociable, but I was scared that I wasn't going to be able to speak a sentence because I had such a bad stammer...”
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Key facts
- Born
- Carly Elisabeth Simon , ( 1943-06-25 ) June 25, 1943 (age 82) , New York City , U.S.
- Occupations
- Singer musician songwriter memoirist author
- Years active
- 1963–present
- Spouses
- James Taylor ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1972 ; divorced</span>"}]]}'>div. 1983 ) James Hart ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1987 ; divorced</span>"}]]}'>div. 2007 )
- Children
- 2, including Sally Taylor
- Parents
- Richard L. Simon (father) Andrea Heinemann Simon (mother)
- Relatives
- Joanna Simon (sister), Lucy Simon (sister), George T. Simon (uncle)
- Genres
- Soft rock pop rock folk
- Instruments
- Vocals guitar piano
- Works
- Carly Simon discography
- Labels
- Elektra Warner Bros. Epic Arista Rhino Columbia Hear Music Iris
- Formerly of
- The Simon Sisters
- Website
- carlysimon .com
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Encyclopedic overview
Carly Elisabeth Simon (born June 25, 1943) is an American musician, singer, songwriter, and author. She rose to fame in the 1970s with a string of hit records; her 13 top 40 U.S. hits include "That's the Way I've Always Heard It Should Be" (No. 10), "Anticipation" (No. 13), "The Right Thing to Do" (No. 17), "Haven't Got Time for the Pain" (No. 14), "You Belong to Me" (No. 6), "Coming Around Again" (No. 18), and her four Gold-certified singles "You're So Vain" (No. 1), "Mockingbird" (No. 5, a duet with James Taylor), "Nobody Does It Better" (No. 2) from the 1977 James Bond film The Spy Who Loved Me, and "Jesse" (No. 11). She has authored two memoirs and five children's books.
In 1963, Simon began performing with her sister Lucy Simon in the Simon Sisters. Their debut album, Meet the Simon Sisters, featured the song "Winkin', Blinkin' and Nod", based on the poem by Eugene Field and put to music by Lucy. The song became a minor hit and reached No. 73 on the Billboard Hot 100. The duo would release two more albums: Cuddlebug (1966) and The Simon Sisters Sing for Children (1969). After Lucy left the group, Carly found great success as a solo artist with her 1971 self-titled debut album, which won her the Grammy Award for Best New Artist and spawned her first top 10 single "That's the Way I've Always Heard It Should Be", which earned her a Grammy Award nomination for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance. Simon's second album, Anticipation, followed later that year and became an even greater success; it spawned the successful singles "Anticipation" and "Legend in Your Own Time", earned her another Grammy nomination, and became her first album to be certified Gold by the RIAA.
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