
Carly Simon ~ Similar Artists
Carole King
- 100% match to Carly Simon
Carole Klein, 9 February 1942, Brooklyn, New York, USA. A proficient pianist from the age of four, King was a prolific songwriter by her early teens. When friend and neighbour Neil Sedaka embarked on his recording career, she followed him into the New York milieu, recording...
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Rita Coolidge
- 92% match to Carly Simon
1 May 1944, Nashville, Tennessee, USA, from mixed white and Cherokee Indian parentage. Coolidge's father was a Baptist minister and she first sang radio jingles in Memphis with her sister Priscilla. Coolidge recorded briefly for local label Pepper before moving to Los Angeles in...
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James Taylor
- 79% match to Carly Simon
12 March 1948, Belmont, Massachusetts, USA. The embodiment of the American singer-songwriter in the late 60s and early 70s was the frail and troubled James Taylor. He was born into a wealthy family. His mother was a classically trained soprano and encouraged James and his...
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Bette Midler
- 72% match to Carly Simon
1 December 1945, Aiea, Hawaii, USA. As a singer, comedienne and actress, Midler rose to fame with an outrageous, raunchy stage act, and became known as "The Divine Miss M", "Trash With Flash" and "Sleaze With Ease". Her mother, a fan of the movies, named her after Bette Davis....
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26 September 1948, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England. Newton-John's father was a professor of German at King's College who, in 1953, accepted the position of dean at Ormond College in Melbourne, Australia. Olivia's showbusiness career began when she won a local contest to find...
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Janis Ian
- 70% match to Carly Simon
Janis Eddy Fink, 7 April 1951, the Bronx, New York, USA. A teenage prodigy, Ian first attracted attention when her early composition, "Hair Of Spun Gold", was published in a 1964 issue of Broadside magazine. Performances at New York's Village Gate and Gaslight venues inspired a...
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Helen Reddy
- 66% match to Carly Simon
25 October 1941, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, A big-voiced interpreter of rock ballads, with a reputation as a high-profile feminist and campaigner on social issues, Reddy came from a showbusiness family. She was a child performer and had already starred in her own television...
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8 November 1954, Chicago, Illinois, USA. Jones emerged from a thriving Los Angeles bohemian sub-culture in 1979 with a buoyant debut album, peppered with images of streetwise characters and indebted, lyrically, to beat and jazz styles. The set included the Chuck E. Weiss tribute...
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Dan Fogelberg
- 62% match to Carly Simon
Daniel Grayling Fogelberg, 13 August 1951, Peoria, Illinois, USA, d. 16 December 2007, Dear Isle, Maine, USA. Having learned piano from the age of 14, Fogelberg moved to guitar and songwriting. Leaving the University of Illinois in 1971, he relocated to California and started...
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Barry Manilow
- 61% match to Carly Simon
Barry Alan Pincus, 17 June 1943, Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA. An immensely popular singer, pianist and composer from the mid-70s onwards, Manilow studied music at the Juilliard School and worked as an arranger for CBS-TV. During the 60s, he also became a skilled...
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