Joanna Simon

From the early '60s Joanna Simon rose to prominence among American mezzo-sopranos, singing a wide variety of operatic roles, as well as concert and recital repertory. She became familiar to television audiences because of her appearances on the Ed Sullivan Show, Tonight Show, and programs hosted by Merv Griffin, Mike Douglas, Dick Cavett, and David Frost. Success and show business came naturally to her: her sisters are singer Carly Simon and composer/singer Lucy Simon; her father Richard was a co-founder of Simon & Schuster, and her mother Andrea Heinemann Simon was also a sin...