Question: are ashford and simpson married?
Answer: Ashford and Simpson's relationship went back to 1964, when they (she a 17-year-old from the Bronx, he a 21-year-old from Michigan) met in a Harlem church and decided to write songs together. They wed 10 years later. “Being married is the best thing that ever happened to me,” Ashford told PEOPLE in 1978.