Sarah Maria "Sally" Taylor (born January 7, 1974), is the daughter of James Taylor and Carly Simon. Like her parents and brother Ben Taylor, she has pursued a musical career and has become known for her acoustic sound, witty vocals and evocative, introspective writing. She is a former member of the indie band The Slip.
Taylor is also a philanthropist, who devotes a significant amount of time and energy to combating the problem of land mines in southeast Asia.
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Musicians: From 1999 to 2002 Sally Taylor's touring band consisted of a core group of musicians, most of whom also contributed to the recordings as well. The key members were:
In addition to her musical career, Sally Taylor is an advocate for the victims of land mines. To this end, she founded "The Tranquility Project" with her husband Dean Bragonier. The charity endeavors to remove landmines from southeast Asia, raise awareness of the issues, and to assist victims to regain their lives and provide hope. She appears on a CD, Too Many Years to benefit Clear Path International's work with land mine survivors. In 2007, Taylor hosted a charity concert in her home of Boulder, Colorado, with the band "Something Underground"- made up of brothers Seth and Josh Larson from the Colorado music scene. Taylor has joined the band, in the last few years, traveled through the midwest, and all the way to SE Asia twice, performing charity concerts.[1]
The more organic side of Sally Taylor additionally involves two other projects; one is the creation of hand made shawls for order, shown on her website. In addition, Taylor, a vegan, along with her husband and child, has been developing a VW van into a food cart featuring vegan and raw foods, called, "Sally in the Raw".[2]
Sally is married to Dean Bragonier. On October 4, 2007, Taylor gave birth to a son, Bodhi Taylor Bragonier.[2]
As the daughter of singer-songwriters James Taylor and Carly Simon, Sally's own birth was immortalized in song, "Sarah Maria", on James Taylor's 1975 album Gorilla. Carly Simon's Hotcakes album, released in January 1974, contains a song called "Think I'm Gonna Have a Baby," and the cover photo is a study of the expectant mother.
She graduated from Tabor Academy, a college preparatory boarding school in Marion, Massachusetts.