that my beloved carly simon is a quarter black!?
Simon's father was
Richard L. Simon (co-founder of
Simon & Schuster, Inc.), an accomplished pianist who often played
Chopin and
Beethoven at home. Her mother was
Andrea Louise Simon (née Heinemann)
[1], a biracial
[2] (black and Jewish) civil rights activist and singer. Carly was raised in the
Riverdale neighborhood of the
Bronx,
New York City and has two older sisters,
Joanna (b. 1940) and
Lucy (b. 1943), and a younger brother,
Peter (b. 1947). She attended
Riverdale Country School.
-wikipedia.
DON'T ask me why i wikipedia-ed carly simon.