Paul Simon A Life Time Legendary Shining Star
       By: Mike Lawwson
Posted: 2011-10-31 20:49:04
Paul Simon is an American singer, lyricist and guitarist. He was born in state of New Jersey on October 13th, 1941. In 1957, he took initiative of his professional life as singer and today he is a legendary figure. Still at age of 69, he is one of the most passionate and active folk singers of all times. Paul Simon schedule details for this year live shows has been released. He has wonderfully blended the folk music genre with pop and rock. This combination appears as brilliant job from his end and for this reason, people love to listen his music creations. This is the core attraction in almost every of his songs that people around the globe greatly love and admire him. His was brought up in New York where Art Garfunkel was his closest friend. Both have great passion and craze for music which resulted in creation of musical band. In mid 60’s, he achieved remarkable recognition during his association with ‘Simon & Garfunkel’ band. However, he started his solo musical career in 1970. This happens after unfortunate breakup of the band. He appeared as solo singer and within five years proved himself to be a trendy rock integrated folk musical figure of the industry.Paul Simon tours across the country to give live performance for his darling fans. During his career both in collaboration with band as well as solo artist, he achieved 13 Grammy Awards in total. He is also among one of the luckiest artist who achieved ‘Life Time Achievement Award’. In 2001, he was among victorious celebrities inducted into ‘Rock and Roll Hall of Fame’. In 2006, he was acknowledged by ‘Time’ magazine in reference to his dedicated work for music industry by selecting him in ‘100 People Who Shaped the World’. In 2007, the Library of Congress honored him by giving its ‘Gershwin Prize for Popular Song’. It is worth mentioning that he is the first ever recipient of this creditable prize. Following are Simon’s released studio albums in due course of his singing line of work.The Paul Simon Songbook (1965), Paul Simon (1972), There Goes Rhymin' Simon (1973), Still Crazy After All These Years (1975), Hearts and Bones (1983), Graceland (1986), The Rhythm of the Saints (1990), Songs from The Capeman (1997), You're the One (2000), Surprise (2006), So Beautiful or So What (2011)Additionally, he has launched 2 live albums, 15 single tracks and 9 compilation albums. Besides singing, this versatile artist is quite talented musician, record producer and author as well. In 1980, He wrote screenplay for film ‘One tricky Pony’ and also acted in it. He is also the co-author of ‘The Capeman’ released in 1998 as Broadway musical. Currently, he is touring nationwide and Paul Simon tickets are now purchasable via online vendors. We are one of the most reliable and committed tickets vendors of all types of entertainment events ahead. We are offering wide range of tickets packages as per customers’ budget availability. You can get your desired tickets from us at discount rates under certain conditions.
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