Joyce Sims singer-songwriter, dies aged 63

Joyce Sims singer-songwriter, dies aged 63

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Tributes have been paid to the R&B singer-songwriter Joyce Sims 

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She died at the age of 63. 

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Sims shot to fame in the late 1980s when her single Come Into My Life 

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Her first hit, All and All, made it to number six in the US dance chart 

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Sims, from Rochester in New York 

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Her death was confirmed on social media by family members 

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Joyce Sims singer-songwriter, dies aged 63

Photo by Lorne Thomson/Redferns

Sims had two children and lived with her husband, Errol, in New Jersey