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.
Where is Carly Simon now?
Today she lives happily on Martha’s Vineyard with surgeon Richard Koehler (she also was married for 19 years to poet James Hart, after Taylor).
She’s releasing a compilation CD, Songs from the Trees, to accompany her memoir, featuring two new songs, one of which, I Can’t Thank You Enough, she co-wrote with her son.
Her memoir, says Simon, now a grandmother, was almost inevitable. “I wanted to get my life story down for my children,” she says.
“I so much wanted to tell them the story of who their grandmother was, who their grandfather was. And I wanted to tell them the story of myself and James and what happened to their parents, the dissolution of the marriage.”