Carly Simon
grieving after sisters die one day apart
Carly Simon lost both her sisters to
cance
r this week.
The 78-year-old singer is grieving after
Broadway
composer Lucy Simon died
following
a battle with breast cancer.
In the early 1960s,
Lucy and Carl
y formed their own folk singing duo called The Simon Sisters.
both went on to have solo
careers
, Lucy later enjoyed success as composer of the
Broadway
musical 'The Secret Garden' in 1991.
Before her illness
progressed
, she had been working on 'On Cedar Street', a musical
adaptation
of the 2015 novel 'Our Souls At Night'.
She went on to work as the arts correspondent for
PBS’s 'MacNeil-Lehrer News Hour
' until 1992, and later worked in real estate.