Editing Carly Simon (section)

==Early life==
Simon was born on June 25, 1943,{{refn|group=nb|While some sources give a birth year of 1945,<ref>{{cite book |last=Whitburn |first=Joel |date=October 5, 2010 |title=The Billboard Book of Top 40 Hits, 9th Edition: Complete Chart Information about America's Most Popular Songs and Artists, 1955–2009 |publisher=Billboard Books |page=592 |isbn=9780823085545}}</ref><ref name="Rolling Stone">{{cite magazine |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/artists/carly-simon/biography |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130413022751/http://www.rollingstone.com/music/artists/carly-simon/biography |url-status=dead |archive-date=April 13, 2013 |title=Carly Simon Biography |magazine=[[Rolling Stone]] |access-date=April 23, 2014}}</ref> birth records show that she was born in 1943,<ref>Ancestry.com. [https://www.ancestry.com/imageviewer/collections/61457/images/47769_b353834-00821 ''New York, New York, Birth Index, 1910-1965''] [database on-line]. "Name: Carly Simon; Birth Date: 25 Jun 1943; Birth Place: Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA; Certificate Number: 21212"</ref> as do others.<ref name="allmusicbio"/><ref>{{cite web |title=Carly Simon |url=https://www2.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2ba312883c |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220228011254/https://www2.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2ba312883c |archive-date=February 28, 2022 |access-date=July 5, 2022 |publisher=[[British Film Institute|BFI]]}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.biography.com/musicians/carly-simon |title=Carly Simon |website=[[Biography (TV program)|Biography]] |date=October 16, 2023 |access-date=January 9, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231031182347/https://www.biography.com/musicians/carly-simon |archive-date=October 31, 2023 |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last=D'Angelo |first=Bob |url=https://www.kiro7.com/news/trending/carly-simon-turns-80-here-are-10-songs-worth-anticipating/6REMBQ3TNZGEZMA3LWH7FOKQYU/ |title=Carly Simon turns 80: Here are 10 songs worth anticipating |website=[[KIRO-TV]] |date=July 25, 2023 |access-date=August 5, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230805143445/https://www.kiro7.com/news/trending/carly-simon-turns-80-here-are-10-songs-worth-anticipating/6REMBQ3TNZGEZMA3LWH7FOKQYU/ |archive-date=August 5, 2023 |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite encyclopedia |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Carly-Simon |encyclopedia=[[Encyclopædia Britannica]] |title=Carly Simon |first=Naomi |last=Blumberg |access-date=February 1, 2024 |archive-date=February 1, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240201235631/https://adp.library.ucsb.edu/index.php/mastertalent/detail/343887/Simon_Carly |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.mmone.org/carly-simon/ |work=The Music Museum of New England |title=Carly Simon |first=D.S. |last=Monahan |date=December 23, 2022 |archive-date=February 1, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240201235631/https://adp.library.ucsb.edu/index.php/mastertalent/detail/343887/Simon_Carly |url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="TeachRock">{{cite web |publisher=[[TeachRock]] |url=https://teachrock.org/people/simon-carly/ |title=Carly Simon |access-date=August 28, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220828013811/https://teachrock.org/people/simon-carly/ |archive-date=August 28, 2022 |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Carly Simon |url=https://www.almanac.com/fact/carly-simon-musician-born|work=Farmers' Almanac |access-date=January 18, 2024 |archive-date=October 3, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231003211522/https://www.almanac.com/fact/carly-simon-musician-born |url-status=live}}</ref>}} in New York City. Her father, [[Richard L. Simon]], was the co-founder of [[Simon & Schuster]]<ref name="Rolling Stone"/> and a classical pianist who often played [[Frédéric Chopin|Chopin]] and [[Ludwig van Beethoven|Beethoven]] at home. Her mother, [[Andrea Heinemann Simon|Andrea]] ({{nee}} Heinemann),<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1994/02/16/obituaries/andrea-heinemann-simon-community-leader-84.html |title=Andrea Heinemann Simon; Community Leader, 84 |newspaper=[[The New York Times]] |date=February 16, 1994 |access-date=November 13, 2010 |archive-date=December 7, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111207121235/http://www.nytimes.com/1994/02/16/obituaries/andrea-heinemann-simon-community-leader-84.html |url-access=subscription |url-status=live}}</ref> was a [[civil rights]] activist and singer. Her father was from a [[German-Jewish]] family, while her mother was Catholic. Her maternal grandfather, Friedrich Heinemann, was of German descent; her maternal grandmother, Ofelia Oliete, known as "Chibie", was a Catholic originally from [[Cuba]], and was of [[Pardo]] heritage, a freed-slave descendant. Ofelia was raised primarily in England by nuns until the age of 16.<ref name=boysinthetrees>{{cite book |title=Boys in the Trees: A Memoir |publisher=[[Macmillan Publishers|Flatiron Books]] |isbn=978-1-250-09589-3 |last=Simon |first=Carly |date=November 24, 2015}}</ref><ref name="miller">{{cite web |url=http://www.thebillmillershow.com/pages/articles/carly-simon.php |title=Interview with Carly Simon |date=January 2007 |publisher=The Bill Miller Show |access-date=September 4, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110816132538/http://www.thebillmillershow.com/pages/articles/carly-simon.php |archive-date=August 16, 2011 |url-status=dead}}</ref> A 2017 episode of PBS show ''[[Finding Your Roots]]'' tested Simon's DNA, which included 10% African and 2% Native American, likely via her maternal grandmother.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.newser.com/article/8f6ad145a06e49ee94c073cbb4901e26/genealogy-show-unlocks-family-secrets-for-carly-simon-more.html |title=Genealogy show unlocks family secrets for Carly Simon, more |first=Lynn |last=Elber |agency=Associated Press |date=October 2, 2017 |website=[[Newser]] |access-date=March 15, 2021 |archive-date=January 11, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210111193703/https://www.newser.com/article/8f6ad145a06e49ee94c073cbb4901e26/genealogy-show-unlocks-family-secrets-for-carly-simon-more.html |url-status=dead}}</ref>

Simon was raised in the [[Riverdale, The Bronx|Riverdale]] neighborhood of the Bronx,<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/17/books/17masl.html |title=Heroines in the Footlights, From All Sides Now |first=Janet |last=Maslin |date=April 17, 2008 |website=[[The New York Times]] |access-date=May 3, 2008 |archive-date=July 25, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210725173040/https://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/17/books/17masl.html |url-access=subscription |url-status=live}}</ref> and had two elder sisters, [[Joanna Simon (singer)|Joanna]] and [[Lucy Simon|Lucy]], and a younger brother, Peter, all of whom died of cancer, predeceasing her.<ref name="Hootenanny2">{{cite web |work=The News & Observer |url=https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/652161250|title=Rutgers Plays Host to TV's 'Hootenanny' Show Tonight |page=15 |date=May 4, 1963 |access-date=August 28, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220828031820/https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/652161250/ |archive-date=August 28, 2022 |url-status=live |quote=Lucy, currently in the graduating class at Cornell University's New York Hospital School of Nursing, composed the music and did the arrangement for the rendition. Carly, a sophomore at Sarah Lawrence College, and her sister became professional folk singers only last winter. But they are veterans of a hootenanny-at-home with a musical family which includes their sister, Joanna, 26, a professional singer, and a younger brother Peter, 16.}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1=Alterman |first1=Loraine |title=Carly's Happy About Being Happy |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1974/04/21/archives/carlys-happy-about-being-happy-singer-carly-simon-why-is-it-hipto.html |website=[[The New York Times]] |access-date=June 15, 2020 |date=April 21, 1974 |archive-date=August 20, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200820083627/https://www.nytimes.com/1974/04/21/archives/carlys-happy-about-being-happy-singer-carly-simon-why-is-it-hipto.html |url-status=live}}</ref> They were raised as nominal [[Catholic Church|Roman Catholic]]s, according to a book of photography Peter published in the late 1990s.<ref name="bookref1">{{cite book |last=Weller |first=Sheila |title=Girls Like Us: Carole King, Joni Mitchell, Carly Simon—and the Journey of a Generation |publisher=[[Washington Square Press]] |date=April 2009 |pages=80–81 |isbn=978-0-7434-9148-8}}</ref> Simon has stated that when she was seven years old, a family friend in his teens sexually assaulted her.<ref name="people1">{{cite magazine |last=Ehrich |first=Kathy |url=http://www.people.com/article/carly-simon-had-sexual-encounters-at-age-7-with-older-boy |title=Carly Simon Reveals She Had Sexual Encounters with an Older Boy When She Was 7 |magazine=[[People (magazine)|People]] |date=November 18, 2015 |access-date=November 19, 2015 |archive-date=January 25, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210125233212/https://people.com/celebrity/carly-simon-reveals-she-had-sexual-encounters-with-an-older-boy-when-she-was-7/ |url-status=live}}</ref> She stated, "It was heinous", adding, "It changed my view about sex for a long time."<ref name="people1"/>

Simon began [[stuttering]] severely when she was eight years old. A psychiatrist tried unsuccessfully to cure her stuttering. Instead, Simon turned to singing and songwriting. "I felt so strangulated talking that I did the natural thing, which is to write songs, because I could sing without stammering, as all stammerers can."<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.stutteringhelp.org/famous-people/carly-simon |title=Carly Simon |date=July 2011 |publisher=[[Stuttering Foundation of America]] |access-date=July 15, 2015 |archive-date=April 27, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220427114213/https://www.stutteringhelp.org/famous-people/carly-simon |url-status=live}}</ref> She has also spoken about growing up with [[List of people with dyslexia|dyslexia]] as well as her belief that the condition has positively influenced her songwriting, saying that her hit song "[[Anticipation (song)|Anticipation]]" "came down from the universe into my head and then out my mouth, so it bypassed the mind."<ref>{{Cite web |last=Zimmerman |first=Rachel |title=Carly Simon And Family Point To Positive, Creative Side Of Dyslexia (Including Theirs) |url=https://www.wbur.org/news/2015/08/07/carly-simon-dyslexia |access-date=December 24, 2022 |website=[[WBUR-FM]] |date=August 7, 2015 |language=en |archive-date=February 9, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240209015321/https://www.wbur.org/news/2015/08/07/carly-simon-dyslexia |url-status=live}}</ref>

Simon attended [[Riverdale Country School]]<ref>{{cite book |last=Zack |first=Ian |title=Odetta: A Life in Music and Protest |date=2020 |publisher=[[Beacon Press]] |isbn=978-0-8070-3532-0 |page=159 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=s1LXDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA159 |language=en |archive-date=May 6, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220506235752/https://books.google.com/books?id=s1LXDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA159%23v%3Donepage&q=&f=false |url-status=live}}</ref> and spent at least four semesters at [[Sarah Lawrence College]].<ref name="Hootenanny2" /> She also attended [[Juilliard School of Music]].<ref name="TeachRock"/>