Musician Carly Simon has lost both of her sisters, Lucy and Joanna, to cancer one day apart from each other. Lucy, known throughout her life and career as a composer on Broadway, died of metastatic…
’s Broadway career, she was nominated for a Tony award in Original Score for her work on the long-running musical “The Secret Garden.” Before she became a composer, she and Carly Simon started out as a folk act in Provincetown, Mass. billed as the Simon Sisters, and their recording of “Wynken, Blynken & Nod” reached No. 73 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1964.
More recently, Lucy Simon had contributed work to the musical “On Cedar Street,” based on the 2015 book “Our Souls at Night” with Victoria Clark directing, but her cancer battle forced her to step away from the project. She is survived by her husband David, her daughter Julie and former husband Christopher Knight, her sister Carly, grandchildren Sophie, Ben, Charlie and Evie.
After she retired from music, Joanna worked as an arts correspondent for PBS’s “MacNeil-Lehrer News Hour” until 1992, where she won an Emmy in 1991 for her report on bipolar disorder and creativity. She was married to novelist and journalist Gerald Walker from 1976 until his death in 2004, and she had a relationship with Walter Cronkite from 2005 until his death in 2009.
Lucy and Joanna Simon’s deaths follow the death of brother Peter, the youngest of the four siblings who was a photographer. He died of cardiac arrest at the age of 71 in 2018 after a bout with cancer.
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Lucy Simon, Tony-Nominated Composer and Sister of Carly Simon, Dies at 82She recorded in a folk act with the 'You're So Vain' singer, then worked on Broadway in 'The Secret Garden' and 'Doctor Zhivago.'
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