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Carly Simon

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Biography

Recent Role:
Musical Guest on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon
Gender:
Female
Born:
6-25-1945
Birthplace:
New York, New York

Carly Simon comes from a long line of noteworthy Simons (her father co-founded the Simon and Schuster publishing company, and her sister, Lucy, is a famous Broadway playwright) but Carly is best known as a folksy, confessional singer and songwriter who emerged in the early 1970s.

Simon got her start in music in the 1960s, when she and her sister performed under the name, The Simon Sisters. But her first solo effort did not materialize until 1971, when she released a self-titled debut, which included solo hit "That's the Way I've Always Heard It Should Be."





… More Her second album, 1971's Anticipation, went gold in two years, and won her the 1971 Grammy for Best New Artist.

She continued to bring home the gold with 1972's No Secrets, which included the hit "You're So Vain," and "The Right Thing to Do," and 1974's Top Ten Hotcakes.

At this time, Simon also married singer-songwriter James Taylor. The couple stayed married until 1983.

Simon continued to roll out the hits, including 1975's Playing Possum, 1976's Another Passenger, 1978's Boys in the Trees, 1979's Spy and 1980's Come Upstairs.

But the dizzying pace began to wear on the young singer, and in October of 1980, she collapsed on stage due to complete exhaustion. After that, her concert appearances became few and far between.

She did, however, continue to release albums, and hit the charts with Torch in 1981. During the next several years, she made guest appearances on other artists' albums, but her solo career began to wane. 1983's Hello Big Man and 1985's Spoiled Girl did not sell well, although a 1986 single featured in the motion picture, Heartburn, went platinum.

She also hit it big with another movie single in 1988, when she released "Let the River Run" for the Working Girl .

Simon released an album of pop covers, called My Romance in March of 1990, and another album of original songs entitled Have You Seen Me Lately? in September of that year. She also scored the film This Is My Life in 1982, and wrote an opera in 1993 called Romulus Hunt.

Her latest effort is The Bedroom Tapes, released in 2000.

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    She is a legend in her own time! hide show

    Carly Simon... what can i say. Well to explain how much i love carly simon i just wrote a two page essay to Allure Magazine of why they should feature her in their magazine. She has done so much for so many people. Her son's bestfriend John Forte is in Jail for 14 years for drug traffiking. She is doing everything she can to get him out of their as soon as possible. She claims to do one thing to help move this on every day, whether writing a letter or contacting politicians. Her music is all her own. Its not like she is britney spears where she just sings songs. Carly Writes her own music and writes it well. She makes depth out of her lyrics and makes the melodies amazing symphony to the ear!

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