Carly Elisabeth Simon born June 25 1945 is an American singersongwriter musician and childrens author 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 selftitled debut album Carly Simon which won her the Grammy Award for Best New Artist and spawned her first Top 10 single Thats the Way Ive Always Heard It Should Be No 10 Her second album Anticipation followed later that year and became an even greater success earning Simon 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 Youre So Vain for which she received three Grammy nominations including Record of the Year and Song of the Year 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 Description above from the Wikipedia article Carly Simon licensed under CCBYSA full list of contributors on Wikipedia
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