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Carly Elisabeth Simon (born June 25, 1945) is an American singer/songwriter and musician. She is also an Academy Award, a Golden Globe and two-time Grammy Award winner. Simon was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1994. Simon has a contralto vocal range. more...

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Early career

Simon's father was Richard L. Simon (co-founder of Simon & Schuster, Inc.), a pianist who often played Chopin and Beethoven at home. Her mother was Andrea Louise Simon (née Heinemann), a biracial (black and white) Jewish civil rights activist and singer. Carly was raised in the Riverdale neighborhood of the Bronx, New York City and has two older sisters, Joanna (b. 1940) and Lucy (b. 1943), and a younger brother, Peter Simon (b. 1947). She attended Riverdale Country School. She also briefly attended Sarah Lawrence College, before dropping out to pursue music.

Simon's career began with a short-lived attempt with her sister Lucy as The Simon Sisters. They had a minor hit in 1964 called \"Winkin', Blinkin' and Nod\" and made three albums together before Lucy left to get married and start a family. Later Simon collaborated with eclectic New York rockers Elephant's Memory for about six months. She also appeared in the 1971 Milos Forman movie Taking Off, playing an auditioning singer and sang \"Long Term Physical Effects\" which was included in Taking Off, the 1971 soundtrack for the movie.

Her solo music career began in 1971 with the self-titled Carly Simon for Elektra Records. The album contained her breakthrough top-ten hit \"That's the Way I've Always Heard It Should Be\" — and was followed quickly by a second album, Anticipation, the title cut from which also received significant airplay.

Simon scored the biggest success of her career with the classic 1972 global smash \"You're So Vain\". It hit #1 on the US Pop and Adult Contemporary charts and sold nearly two million 45s in the US alone. It was one of the decade's biggest hits and propelled Carly's breakthrough album No Secrets to #1 on the US album charts - where it stayed locked in for six consecutive weeks - and to million-selling Platinum status which was rare for a female artist in the early 1970s. \"You're So Vain\" received Grammy Award nominations for Record Of The Year, Song Of The Year and Best Pop Vocal Performance Female. The follow-up single, \"The Right Thing To Do\", was also a sizable hit, reaching #4 Adult Contemporary and #17 Pop.

In 1973 Simon performed on Lee Clayton's album Lee Clayton co-singing on the song \"New York Suite 409\" and on Livingston Taylor's album Over the Rainbow singing with both Livingston and James Taylor (who was by then her husband) on the songs \"Loving Be My New Horizon\" and \"Pretty Woman\".

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