Joanna Simon, acclaimed singer and sister of Carly Simon, dies aged 85

The siblings were born to publishing giant Richard Simon and his wife, Andrea.... Music in Video: PA Media 2022-10-22T17:20:00Z Joanna Simon, an acclaimed mezzo-soprano and one of the three singing Simon sisters – who include pop star Carly, has died at the age of 85. Joanna, the eldest of four, died on Wednesday, just a day before her sister Lucy died, according to Lucy’s daughter Julie Simon. Their brother Peter, a photographer, died in 2018 at the age of 71. All three had cancer. “In the last two days, I’ve been by the side of both my mother and my aunt, Joanna, and watched them pass into the next world. I can’t truly comprehend this,” Julie wrote on Facebook. Joanna, who died of thyroid cancer, rose to fame in the opera world and as a concert performer in the 1960s. She was a frequent guest on TV talk shows. After her retirement from singing, she became an arts correspondent for PBS’s MacNeil