Biography
Floor Frederick Simon is a three-time winner of the Grammy Prize in the nomination "Best Album of the Year." Many written compositions written by a composer (for example, The Sound of Silence, Sounds of Silence), remain hits and now, and the song MRS. Robinson became a musical business card of America of the late 1960s.Childhood and youth
The future musician was born in Newark in the midst of the autumn of 1941. Now the population of the largest city of New Jersey by a third is less than in the year of the birth of a child.
Floor parents, like the mother of the leader of the Kiss Rock Group, Gina Simmons, - Hungarian Jews, settled in the United States. The father of the boy, Louis, taught in college and played on the double bass, the mother named Bell worked as a teacher at school.
Gender and his younger brother Eddie grew in the most multinational district of New York - Queens. Simons sought assimilation and enthusiastic neophytes were carried away by the motives of African Americans and baseball. Although the performer himself plays a guitar, in many of his compositions - for example, in the famous Obvious Child - African drums sound.
In 11 years, friendship and collaboration of a teenager with an Art Garfankel began. Boys together participated in the play "Alice in Wonderland". At 13, classmates began to sing and play school parties. Father's father wrote for young musicians The Girl for Me.
After released the paths of buddies, it was briefly separated: Art studied mathematics in the University of New York University of Columbia, and Simon received a bachelor's degree of British literature and 1 semester was reasspered in the Brooklyn Law School. But the passion for melodic art won, and friends united in a duet, which was called by analogy with the animation film - "Tom and Jerry".
Personal life
In early youth, Paul had a novel with the Englishman Kathleen Mary Chitty, who sold tickets to the club, where Simon concerted. Photo of the beloved decorated the cover of The Paul Simon Songbook album, which opened the musician personal discography.The first legitimate spouse Peggy, who presented the son of Harper in 1972, inspired a man to spell several compositions for the collection of Hearts and Bones. However, the album was released after the divorce that followed in 1975.
The second wife of the floor was Padderitsa Elizabeth Taylor - Actress and Prosais Karry Fisher. In Russia, the artist is known mainly due to the role of Princess Lei Authorities in the Star Wars Film Equipment. According to Fisher's book in 1990, Mike Nichols took off the comedy drama "Postcards from the edge of the abyss", the main character in which Meril Streep played.
In the interval between Peggy and Carrie, a man met with the actress Shelly Duval. Beloved together appeared in the painting of Woody Allen "Annie Hall", which received 4 Oscars. The director who performed the main male role in the tape took advantage of the plot with elements of his biography. Single-facing floor, writer and film critic John Simon, who died in 2019, called the film shapeless, boring and aimless.
Happiness in personal life The musician has gained the singer Edi Brikell, who is the younger of him for a quarter of a century. Three children were born in this marriage: Adrian, Lulu and Gabriel. In 2014, spouses were accused of violating public order - a family quarrel of artists turned into a fight. In the court, Connecticut husband and wife, holding hands, reported that the conflict was exhausted and they do not see each other in a different threat.
Music
In early 1964, Paul and Art were successfully audible to Columbia Records, but the producer recommended friends to change the name of the duet with Tom and Jerry on Simon and Garfunkel. The team lasted until the 1970th and released 5 albums, which were the synthesis of rock, pop and folk motifs.
The most famous collection - Bridge Over Troubled Water ("Bridge over Stormy Waters"), which includes the composition of El Condor Pasa (IF i Could) ("Flight of Condor"). Recalling the Corder-version of Condor for the record, Simon was convinced that the song was folk. However, it turned out that the author of Hita is the Peruvian musician Daniel Robles.
Although in the future the floor and art chose to make solo careers, the former partners were repeatedly reunited. So, in 1981, Simon and Garfankel gave a concert in the New York Central Park, where 500 thousand spectators were present, and then went to the global tour. In 2010, the duo sang on the jazz festival in New Orleans.
At the turn of the 2nd and 3rd millennia, the artist collaborated with Bob Dilan and Brian IO. The executor fell and Fiasco Musicla The Capeman, and a triumphant return to the world of popular music with the album Surprise. Simon argues that when writing songs, the motive is born from him before the words.
In 76 years, the artist reported that it stops concert activities, but does not exclude the possibility of episodic speeches. In 2018, he released the 14th solo album in The Blue Light, in which new arrangements of old hits are collected.
Paul Simon now
In August 2019, Paul Simon took part in the Golden Gate Park festival, held in San Francisco. Photos of the posters of the music forum laid out in the "Instagram" of the singer. November 23, 2019, he as a special guest participated in the concert in New York City's Town Hall (New York Town Hall).In February 2020, on the official website of the artist, the words of farewell appeared with the South African singer Joseph Shabalala, who died in Pretoria at the age of 79, and a joint shot with him. Music "Black Continent" inspired the floor to create a graceland album. In 1989, performers came together to the USSR and gave a concert in Moscow at the Gorky Park Green Theater.
Discography
- 1965 - THE PAUL SIMON SONGBOOK
- 1972 - Paul Simon
- 1973 - THERE GOES RHYMIN 'SIMON
- 1975 - Still Crazy After All These Years
- 1980 - One-Trick Pony
- 1983 - Hearts and Bones
- 1986 - Graceland.
- 1990 - The Rhytnm of the Saints
- 1997 - Songs from the Capeman
- 2000 - You're One
- 2006 - SURPRISE.
- 2011 - SO Beautiful or So What
- 2016 - Stranger to Stranger
- 2018 - In The Blue Light