He died of cardiac arrest at the age of 71 in 2018 after a bout with cancer. The musician, 75, opened up about the loss in a statement to PEOPLE after it. Lucy and Joanna Simon’s deaths follow the death of brother Peter, the youngest of the four siblings who was a photographer. Carly Simon is mourning the loss of her two sisters, Joanna and Lucy Simon, who both died of cancer this week. My sisters drew me into music at the age of five. 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. Carly Simon paid tribute to her two older sisters Saturday after they both died of cancer a day apart. The Simon sisters: Lucy, 8, Carly, 5, and Joey, 11, in Stamford, Connecticut, 1950. Her singing career ran through until 1986, participating in numerous recordings along the way with orchestras, including performances with the New York Philharmonic, the Vienna Philharmonic and the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra.Īfter 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. In 1972, she performed the titular role in the world premiere of Thomas Pasatieri’s “Black Widow” at the Seattle Opera, while in 1975 she performed the role of Pelagia in the world premiere of Robert Starer’s “The Last Lover” at the Caramoor Music Festival. Joanna Simon started performed regularly on opera and concert stages in 1962, when she made her debut at the New York City Opera as Mozart’s Cherubino. She is survived by her husband David, her daughter Julie and former husband Christopher Knight, her sister Carly, grandchildren Sophie, Ben, Charlie and Evie.

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.

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