Carly Simon shared a statement mourning the loss of her two sisters, Joanna and Lucy, who died of cancer one day apart from each other this last week.
“I am filled with sorrow to speak about the passing of Joanna and Lucy Simon,” the singer wrote in a statement shared via email with TODAY. “Their loss will be long and haunting. As sad as this day is, it’s impossible to mourn them without celebrating their incredible lives that they lived.”
“I have no words to explain the feeling of suddenly being the only remaining direct offspring of Richard and Andrea Simon,” she wrote. “They touched everyone they knew and those of us they’ve left behind will be lucky and honored to carry their memories forward.”Ron Galella, Ltd. / Ron Galella Collection via GettyJoanna Simon, who was an opera singer and the eldest of the Simon sisters, died of thyroid cancer on Wednesday, Oct. 19 in Manhattan.
In 2018, the sisters also lost their brother and the youngest of the family, Peter. After a bout of cancer, the photographer died at age 71 of cardiac arrest in November 2018. Prior to Lucy Simon’s career on Broadway as a composer, she and her sister Carly Simon began as a folk act in Provincetown, Massachusetts as the Simon Sisters. They reached no. 73 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1964 for their recording of “Wynken, Blynken & Nod.” Lucy Simon went on to win a Grammy for best recording for children in 1981 with her husband David Levine, winning the same award a second time two years later in 1983.
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