Carly Simon
Carly Simon
Carly Elisabeth Simonis 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", "You Belong To Me", "Coming Around Again", and her four Gold certified singles "Jesse", "Mockingbird", a duet with James Taylor, "You're So Vain", and "Nobody Does It Better"from the 1977 James Bond film, The Spy Who Loved Me...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPop Singer
Date of Birth25 June 1945
CityNew York City, NY
CountryUnited States of America
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You know, people want to honor me, and on the one hand I just don't want to be a poster child; but on the other, I want to do something classy and great - something where the residuals will go to the cause.
As a singer I tried on all these hats, these voices, these clothes, and eventually out came me.
Anticipation is making me late, it's keeping me waiting.
So I suppose this slightly mature fashion sense happened because of what I had.
It's like The Mold in Dr. Florey's Coat, about the discovery of penicillin. Out of these strange accidents come huge discoveries. A certain purple bleeds into red and all of a sudden you have something unexpected.
Well, I make every song I sing personal. I've never chosen a song that wasn't.
I always sang standards because the songs I wrote for myself weren't as easy to sing.
I haven't got time for the pain.
The models for me were more the folk-rock singers of the '60s and '70s.
So many artists who came out during that time, including myself, were able to get on radio. New forms of singer-songwriters developed out of that.
Then I went through a big Peggy Lee stage, then I became Annie Ross, then Judy Collins.
He was a first-time nonviolent possible offender, ... And under the mandatory minimums, he was put in prison for 15 years. Not only does the punishment not fit the crime, but the mandatory minimums don't give judges any discretion to look at the background of the case, to read into the specifics of the case. I don't know a judge who really is in favor of the mandatory minimums.
My father was a classical pianist, and my mother was a singer of just about everything.
We went to see all the shows. American musical theater and jazz were very big.