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paul simon AMERICAN MUSICIAN

Birth Date: October 13, 1941 Birth Place: Newark, New Jersey Birth name: Paul Frederic Simon

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Father: Louis Simon Mother: Belle Simon

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Marriages: 

 Edie Brickell (May 1992-present), Carrie Fisher (August 1983-July 1984, divorced), Peggy Harper (1969-1975, divorced)

Children: with Edie Brickell: Gabriel Elijah, 1998; Lulu Belle, 1995; Adrian Edward, 1992; with Peggy Harper: Harper James, 1972

Education: Queens College, B.A., 1963; briefly attended Brooklyn Law School

Nominated for 35 and winner of 16 Grammy Awards, and recipient of the Grammy Lifetime Achievement award.

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Nominated for and winner of one Emmy Award

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Simon and Art Garfunkel were classmates and met at age 11

He wrote the song “He Was My Brother” about the death of Andrew Goodman, a college classmate and civil rights worker who was murdered in Mississippi in 1964.

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