Carly Elisabeth Simon (born June 25, 1945) is an American
singer-songwriter, musician, and children's author. She first rose to
fame in the 1970s with a string of hit records; her 13 Top 40 U.S.
hits include "Anticipation" (No. 13), "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).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 Heard It Should Be" (No. 10). Her second
album, Anticipation, followed later that year and became an even
greater success, earning her another Grammy nomination and later being
certified Gold by the RIAA. She achieved international fame the
following year with the release of her third album, No Secrets, which
sat firmly at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 for five weeks, was certified
Platinum, and spawned the worldwide hit "You're So Vain", for which
she received three Grammy nominations, including Record of the Year
and Song of the Year. Simon's 1977 worldwide hit "Nobody Does It
Better", the theme song to the film The Spy Who Loved Me, garnered her
another Grammy nomination, and has been ranked as one of the greatest
James Bond theme songs of all time. With her 1988 hit "Let the River
Run", from the film Working Girl, she became the first artist 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.Over the course of her career, Simon has amassed 24 Billboard
Hot 100 charting singles and 28 Billboard Adult Contemporary charting
singles. Among her various accolades, she has won 2 Grammy Awards,
from 14 nominations. AllMusic called her "one of the quintessential
singer-songwriters of the '70s". She has a contralto vocal range, and
has cited Odetta as a significant influence. She was inducted into the
Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1994. In 1995 and 1998, respectively, she
received the Boston Music Awards Lifetime Achievement and a Berklee
College of Music Honorary Doctor of Music Degree. She was inducted
into the Grammy Hall of Fame for "You're So Vain" in 2004 and awarded
the ASCAP Founders Award in 2012.
singer-songwriter, musician, and children's author. She first rose to
fame in the 1970s with a string of hit records; her 13 Top 40 U.S.
hits include "Anticipation" (No. 13), "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).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 Heard It Should Be" (No. 10). Her second
album, Anticipation, followed later that year and became an even
greater success, earning her another Grammy nomination and later being
certified Gold by the RIAA. She achieved international fame the
following year with the release of her third album, No Secrets, which
sat firmly at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 for five weeks, was certified
Platinum, and spawned the worldwide hit "You're So Vain", for which
she received three Grammy nominations, including Record of the Year
and Song of the Year. Simon's 1977 worldwide hit "Nobody Does It
Better", the theme song to the film The Spy Who Loved Me, garnered her
another Grammy nomination, and has been ranked as one of the greatest
James Bond theme songs of all time. With her 1988 hit "Let the River
Run", from the film Working Girl, she became the first artist 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.Over the course of her career, Simon has amassed 24 Billboard
Hot 100 charting singles and 28 Billboard Adult Contemporary charting
singles. Among her various accolades, she has won 2 Grammy Awards,
from 14 nominations. AllMusic called her "one of the quintessential
singer-songwriters of the '70s". She has a contralto vocal range, and
has cited Odetta as a significant influence. She was inducted into the
Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1994. In 1995 and 1998, respectively, she
received the Boston Music Awards Lifetime Achievement and a Berklee
College of Music Honorary Doctor of Music Degree. She was inducted
into the Grammy Hall of Fame for "You're So Vain" in 2004 and awarded
the ASCAP Founders Award in 2012.
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