Paul Simon
Paul Simon
Paul F. Simon, Paul Frederic Simon
Paul Simon is an American Singer-Songwriter and one of the most accomplished songwriters of the last 50 years. One half of Simon and Garfunkel, Simon launched his solo career after the duo split.
Simon has won twelve Grammy Awards, including two wins for Album of the Year, for Still Crazy After All These Years in 1976 and Graceland in 1987. He joins Stevie Wonder, U2, Taylor Swift and Frank Sinatra as artists with more than one Album of the Year victory (Simon and Garfunkel also won album of the year in 1971 for Bridge over Troubled Water). He has also received a Lifetime Achievement Award as one of his 12 Grammys.
Simon is a member of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, the Songwriters Hall of Fame, and the first person to receive the Gershwin Prize for Popular Song from the Library of Congress.