Carly Elisabeth Simon is an American musician, singer-songwriter, memoirist, and children’s author. She rose to fame in the 1970s with a string of hit records; her 13 Top 40 U.S. hits
One of the most popular confessional singer/songwriters who emerged in the early 1970s, Simon has 24 Billboard Hot 100-charting singles and 28 Billboard Adult Contemporary charting singles.
Among her various accolades, she has won two Grammy Awards (from 14 nominations) and was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame for “You’re So Vain” in 2004. AllMusic called her “one of the quintessential singer-songwriters of the ’70s”.
She was honoured with the Boston Music Awards Lifetime Achievement in 1995 and received a Berklee College of Music Honorary Doctor of Music Degree in 1998. In 2005, Simon was nominated for a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, but she has yet to claim her star.
In 2012, she was honoured with the Founders Award from the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers. On November 5, 2022, Simon was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
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Born in New York, she has also written very successful children’s books and became a household name in the 1970s with her hit songs that include “Nobody Does It Better”, “You’re So Vain” and “That’s the Way I’ve Always Heard it Should Be”.
She developed an interest in performing as a child and she and her two sisters even performed together at first.
The group broke up when her oldest sister moved onto become a professional opera mezzo-soprano but Carly and her older sister formed the duo The Simon Sisters and got a contract in 1963 with Kapp Records. The duo broke up when her sister got married.
In the 1980s, Carly started writing children’s books with the first, Amy The Dancing Bear, being released in 1989.
Her soundtrack work continued throughout the ’90s with her songs being used in a number of films including Mike Nichols’ Postcards from the Edge released in 1990, Nora Ephron’s This Is My Life released in 1992 and Primary Colors released in 1998.