NEW YORK –
Joanna Simon, an acclaimed mezzo-soprano, Emmy-winning TV correspondent and one of many three singing Simon sisters who embody pop star Carly, has died at age 85.
Simon, the eldest of 4, died Wednesday, only a day earlier than her sister Lucy died, in line with Lucy’s daughter, Julie Simon. Their brother Peter, a photographer, died in 2018 at 71. All three had most cancers.
“In the final 2 days, I’ve been by the aspect of each my mom and my aunt, Joanna, and watched them move into the subsequent world. I can not actually comprehend this,” Julie wrote on Facebook.
Joanna Simon, who died of thyroid most cancers, rose to fame within the opera world and as a live performance performer within the Nineteen Sixties. She was a frequent visitor on TV discuss reveals. After her retirement from singing, she turned an arts correspondent for PBS’s “MacNeil-Lehrer News Hour,” the place she received an Emmy in 1991 for a report on psychological sickness and creativity.
Simon was married to novelist and journalist Gerald Walker from 1976 till his dying in 2004. She was the companion of Walter Cronkite from 2005 till his dying in 2009.
On stage, she made her skilled debut in 1962 as Cherubino in Mozart’s “The Marriage of Figaro” at New York City Opera. That yr, she received the Marian Anderson Award for promising younger singers. Simon took on a variety of fabric. As a live performance performer, she leaned into traditional and modern songs of her time.
The siblings have been born to publishing big Richard Simon and his spouse, Andrea. Carly and Lucy as soon as carried out because the Simon Sisters, opening for different acts in Greenwich Village people golf equipment.