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Artist
Lucy Simon
12+ albums
United States
about
Lucy Simon (born 5 May 1940; died 20 October 2022) was an American singer and composer for the theatre and popular songs. She is remembered for the musical "The Secret Garden" and for being one half of the 60s folk music sister duo The Simon Sisters with her sister Carly Simon. The older sister of musician Carly Simon, her older sister is an opera singer and her younger brother a photographer. Simon grew up in Fieldston, a section of Riverdale in the Bronx. She attended the Fieldston School, graduating in 1958 and Bennington College. Simon began her professional career at the age of sixteen as The Simon Sisters singing folk tunes with sister Carly and later folk-rock. Lucy Simon made her Broadway debut as the composer of The Secret Garden, for which she was nominated for a 1991 Tony Award for Best Original Score and a 1991 Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Music. She also wrote songs for the off-Broadway show A...My Name is Alice. Simon's setting of Wynken, Blynken, and Nod has been recorded by many diverse artists, including The Doobie Brothers, Mitzie Collins, and The Big Three (Cass Elliot, Tim Rose, and James Hendricks). In the seventies, Simon made two singer/songwriter-styled albums for RCA Records, the self-titled Lucy Simon, followed by Stolen Time. She composed the music for a musical version of the Russian novel Dr. Zhivago,, with lyricists Michael Korie and Amy Powers and book writer Michael Weller. The musical had its world premiere at the La Jolla Playhouse,
top songs
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The Secret Garden (Original London Cast Recording)
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Doctor Zhivago (Original Broadway Cast Recording)
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In Harmony - A Sesame Street Record
Stolen Time
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The Secret Garden
The Secret Garden (Original Broadway Cast)
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Enchantment
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The Secret Garden (Original Broadway Cast Recording)
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In Harmony: A Sesame Street Record
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In Harmony
Lucy Simon
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Renée & Bryn - Under The Stars