Arthur garfunkel biography
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Arthur Ira Garfunkel
Art Garfunkel
November 5, 1941
Forest Hills
New York
Scorpion
Jacob (Jack) Garfunkel
Rose Garfunkel
Moldovan (Romanian) Jews
Jules Garfunkel
Jerome Garfunkel
1972 - 1975
Linda Grossman
since September 18, 1988
Kathryn Luce (Kim) Cermak
Arthur Jr
(born December 15, 1990)
Beau Daniel
(* October 5, 2005)
Manhattan/Upper East Side
Bachelor of Arts
Master in didactics
Masters in Mathematics
Singer
Actor
poet
Mathematics teacher
Arthur Ira (Art) Garfunkel
was born on November 5, 1941 in Forest Hills, New York, to Rose and Jack Garfunkel.
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Art Garfunkel
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Art Garfunkel met fellow musician Paul Simon while in school and went on to form eller gestalt a grupp called Tom and Jerry. Though the duo didn't find much success with the Tom and Jerry moniker, they began to gain a following after changing their name to Simon & Garfunkel and releasing songs that spoke to the generation of the 1960s and '70s, such as "Bridge Over Troubled Water" and "The Sound of Silence."
Early Life, Childhood Friendship with Paul Simon
Singer Arthur "Art" Garfunkel was born in Forest Hills, New York, on November 5, 1941, to Rose and Jack Garfunkel. Sensing his son's enthusiasm for melody, Jack, a traveling salesman, bought Garfunkel a wire recorder. Even as young as four, Garfunkel would sit for hours with the gadget, singing, listening and fine-tuning his voice, and then recording again. "That got me into music more than anything else, singing and being able to record it," he rec
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Art Garfunkel (born Arthur Ira Garfunkel on 5 November 1941 in Forest Hills, Queens, NYC, USA) is an American singer and actor, best known as half of the folk duo Simon & Garfunkel. He is of Romanian Jewish ancestry.
He met his future singing partner, Paul Simon, in the sixth grade. Between 1956 and 1962, the two had performed together as Tom & Jerry. Garfunkel ("Tom Graph") chose his nickname because he liked to track, or "graph" hits, on the pop charts. Garfunkel attended Columbia University in the early sixties, where he sang with the Kingsmen, an all-male a cappella group. While at Columbia, he was also a Brother of the Alpha Epsilon Pi Fraternity. In 1962 Garfunkel earned a Bachelor of Arts degree majoring in art history, followed eventually by a Master's degree in mathematics.
In 1963 he and Simon reformed the duo under their own names as Simon and Garfunkel and released their first album, Wednesday Morning, 3 A.M. on Columbia Records in Oc