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Arthur Ira "Art" Garfunkel (born November 5, 1941) is an American
United States

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 singer, poet
Poet

A poet is a person who writes poetry....
 and actor
Actor

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, best known as half of the Grammy Award
Grammy Award

The Grammy Awards ?or Grammys?are presented annually by the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences of the United States for outstanding achievements in the music industry....
 winning folk
Folk music

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 duo Simon & Garfunkel.

unkel was born in Forest Hills, Queens, New York City
New York City

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, the son of Rose, a housewife, and Jacob "Jack" Garfunkel, a traveling menswear salesman. His family was Jew
Jew

A Jew is a member of the Jewish people, an ethnoreligious group that traces its ancestry to the Israelites or Hebrews of the Ancient Near East....
ish and his paternal grandparents immigrated from Iasi
Iasi

Iasi , is a Cities in Romania and Municipality in Romania in north-eastern Romania. The city was the capital of Principality of Moldavia from the 16th century until 1861 and of Romania between 1916?1918 during World War I....
 in Romania
Romania

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.






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Arthur Ira "Art" Garfunkel (born November 5, 1941) is an American
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
 singer, poet
Poet

A poet is a person who writes poetry....
 and actor
Actor

An actor or actress is a person who acting in a dramatic production and who works in film, television, theatre, or radio programming in that capacity....
, best known as half of the Grammy Award
Grammy Award

The Grammy Awards ?or Grammys?are presented annually by the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences of the United States for outstanding achievements in the music industry....
 winning folk
Folk music

Folk music can have a number of different meanings, including:* Traditional music: The original meaning of the term "folk music" was synonymous with the term "Traditional music", also often including World Music and Roots music; the term "Traditional music" was given its more specific meaning to distinguish it from the other definition...
 duo Simon & Garfunkel.

Early life and career

Garfunkel was born in Forest Hills, Queens, New York City
New York City

The City of New York is the List of United States cities by population in the United States, while the New York metropolitan area ranks among the List of urban areas by population....
, the son of Rose, a housewife, and Jacob "Jack" Garfunkel, a traveling menswear salesman. His family was Jew
Jew

A Jew is a member of the Jewish people, an ethnoreligious group that traces its ancestry to the Israelites or Hebrews of the Ancient Near East....
ish and his paternal grandparents immigrated from Iasi
Iasi

Iasi , is a Cities in Romania and Municipality in Romania in north-eastern Romania. The city was the capital of Principality of Moldavia from the 16th century until 1861 and of Romania between 1916?1918 during World War I....
 in Romania
Romania

Romania is a country located in Southeastern Europe Central Europe, North of the Balkan Peninsula, on the Lower Danube, within and outside the Carpathian Mountains, bordering on the Black Sea....
. Garfunkel attended Forest Hills High School
Forest Hills High School

Forest Hills High School is a public secondary school in Queens, New York City.FHHS was dedicated in 1937. It educates students in grades 9-12 and is operated by the New York City Department of Education....
.

He met his future singing partner, Paul Simon
Paul Simon

Paul Frederic Simon is an United States singer-songwriter and musician, perhaps best known for his partnership with Art Garfunkel in the duo Simon & Garfunkel....
, 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
Columbia University

Columbia University in the City of New York , is a private university in the United States and a member of the Ivy League. Columbia's main campus lies in the Morningside Heights, Manhattan neighborhood in the borough of Manhattan, in New York City....
 in the early 1960s, where he sang with the Kingsmen, an all-male a cappella
A cappella

Acappella music is vocal music or singing without musical instrument accompaniment, or a piece intended to be performed in this way. A cappella was originally intended to differentiate between Renaissance music polyphony and Baroque concertato style....
 group (not to be confused with The Kingsmen
The Kingsmen

The Kingsmen were a 1960s garage rock / frat rock band from Portland, Oregon, Oregon. They are best known for their 1963 recording of Richard Berry's "Louie Louie", which held the #2 spot on the Billboard magazine charts for six weeks....
 of "Louie Louie" fame) and was a Brother in the Alpha Epsilon Pi
Alpha Epsilon Pi

Alpha Epsilon Pi is the only international Jewish college fraternities and sororities in North America, with 140 chapters in the United States and Canada, and over 7,000 active undergraduates....
 Fraternity. In 1962, Garfunkel earned a Bachelor of Arts
Bachelor of Arts

Bachelor of Arts , from the Latin language Artium Baccalaureus, is an Undergraduate education bachelor's degree awarded for either a course or a program in either the liberal arts, the sciences or both....
 degree
Academic degree

A degree is any of a wide range of status levels conferred by institutions of higher education, such as University, normally as the result of successfully completing a program of study....
 majoring in art history
History of art

The history of art usually refers to the history of the visual arts of painting, sculpture and architecture as well as architecture. It is the history of one of the fine arts, others of which are the performing arts and literary arts....
, followed by a Master's degree
Master's degree

A master's degree provides a mastery or high-order overview of a specific field of study or area of profession. Within the area studied, graduates possess advanced knowledge of a specialized body of theory and applied topics; high order skills in analysis, Critical thinking and/or professional application; and the ability to problem solving a...
 in mathematics
Mathematics

Mathematics is the study of quantity, structure, space, change, and related topics of pattern and form. Mathematicians seek out patterns whether found in numbers, space, natural science, computers, imaginary abstractions, or elsewhere....
.

Simon and Garfunkel

In 1963 he and Simon reformed their duo under their own names as "Simon and Garfunkel" and released their first album, Wednesday Morning, 3 A.M.
Wednesday Morning, 3 A.M.

Wednesday Morning, 3 A.M. is the debut album by folk music duo Simon and Garfunkel, released October 19, 1964. It was produced by Tom Wilson and engineered by Roy Halee....
 on Columbia Records
Columbia Records

Columbia Records is an American record label founded in 1888.Columbia is the oldest surviving brand name in pre-recorded sound, being the first record company to produce pre-recorded records as opposed to blank cylinders....
 in October 1964. It was not a critical success, and the duo subsequently split again. The next year, producer Tom Wilson lifted the song "The Sound of Silence
The Sound of Silence

"The Sounds of Silence" is the song that propelled the 1960s folk music duo Simon and Garfunkel to popularity. It was written in February 1964 by Paul Simon in the aftermath of the John F....
" from the record, dubbed an electric backing onto it, and released it as a single that went to #1 on the Billboard pop charts. Simon and Garfunkel reunited and went on to become one of the most popular acts of the 1960s, releasing four more studio albums. Citing personal differences and divergence in career interests, they split following the release of their most critically acclaimed album, Bridge over Troubled Water
Bridge over Troubled Water

Bridge over Troubled Water is the fifth and final studio album by Simon & Garfunkel. First released on January 26, 1970, it reached No. 1 on Billboard Music Charts pop albums list....
, in 1970.

Solo career

Art Garfunkel June 4 1998 Cropped
Garfunkel pursued an acting career in the early 1970s, appearing in the films Catch-22
Catch-22 (film)

Catch-22 is a 1970 in film war film adapted from the Catch-22 by Joseph Heller. Considered a black comedy revolving around the "lunatic characters" of Heller's satirical novel, the film was mired in production problems and artistic issues that led to its commercial failure....
 (1970) and Carnal Knowledge
Carnal Knowledge (film)

Carnal Knowledge is a 1971 United States drama film. The film was Film director by Mike Nichols and screenwriter by Jules Feiffer....
 (1971). He also recorded several solo albums, scoring hits with "I Only Have Eyes For You
I Only Have Eyes for You

"I Only Have Eyes For You" is a popular music song by composer Harry Warren and lyricist Al Dubin, written in 1934 in music for the film Dames where it was introduced by Dick Powell and Ruby Keeler....
" (a 1934 song written by Harry Warren
Harry Warren

Harry Warren was an Italian-American composer and lyricist. Warren was the first major American songwriter to write primarily for film and had more hit songs than any other composer of the 20th Century....
) and "Bright Eyes
Bright Eyes (Art Garfunkel song)

"Bright Eyes" is a song written by Mike Batt, and performed by Art Garfunkel. It was used in the soundtrack of the 1978 film Watership Down and as such is considered the theme song of the film....
" (both British #1 hit singles), and "All I Know" (#9 in the United States). A version of "Bright Eyes" also appeared in the movie (based on the famous novel) Watership Down
Watership Down (film)

Watership Down is a 1978 in film animated film directed by Martin Rosen and based on Watership Down by Richard Adams. It was largely financed by Jake Eberts' company, Goldcrest Films....
. Garfunkel briefly reunited with Paul Simon for the 1975 hit "My Little Town
My Little Town

"My Little Town" is a 1975 song by the American duo Simon & Garfunkel. It was written by Paul Simon, who produced the track along with Art Garfunkel and Phil Ramone....
"; Simon, and mutual friend James Taylor
James Taylor

James Vernon Taylor is a Grammy Award winning United States singer-songwriter and guitarist born in Boston, Massachusetts, and raised in Carrboro, North Carolina, North Carolina....
, also contributed backing vocals to Garfunkel's 1977 cover of Sam Cooke
Sam Cooke

Samuel Cook, better known as Sam Cooke, was an United States gospel music, R&B, soul music, and popular music singer, songwriter, and entrepreneur....
's "(What a) Wonderful World
Wonderful World (song)

"Wonderful World" was written in the late 1950s by soul music pioneer Sam Cooke along with songwriters Lou Adler and Herb Alpert, although at first attributed to the pseudonym Barbara Campbell which was the maiden name of Cooke's mother, and first recorded by Cooke in 1959 in music for Cooke's self-titled debut album....
", which reached #1 on the Adult Contemporary chart and #17 pop.

Following disappointing sales of his 1981 album Scissors Cut (which included one song, "In Cars", that featured Simon on backing vocals), Garfunkel reunited with Simon for The Concert in Central Park
The Concert in Central Park

The Concert in Central Park is a live album by Simon and Garfunkel. On September 19, 1981 the folk-rock duo reunited for a free concert on the Great Lawn and Turtle Pond, Central Park of New York City's Central Park attended by more than 500,000 people....
 and a world tour. They had disagreements during the tour. In 1984 Stereo Review Magazine reported that Simon mixed out Garfunkel's voice from a new album, initially slated to be a Simon and Garfunkel studio reunion, but ultimately released as a Simon solo album (Hearts and Bones
Hearts and Bones

Hearts and Bones is a 1983 rock album by Paul Simon. It is his fifth album in his solo career.The album was originally intended to be a Simon & Garfunkel reunion album called Think Too Much, following their The Concert in Central Park in 1981, and the world tour of 1982 - 1983....
). Garfunkel then left the music scene until his 1988 album, Lefty and later 1993's Up 'til Now, neither of which received significant critical or commercial success. His live 1996 concert Across America, recorded at the registry hall on Ellis Island
Ellis Island

Ellis Island, at the mouth of the Hudson River in New York Harbor, is the location of what was from January 1, 1892, until November 12, 1954 the main entry facility for immigrants entering the United States; the facility replaced the state-run Castle Clinton in Manhattan....
 features musical guests James Taylor
James Taylor

James Vernon Taylor is a Grammy Award winning United States singer-songwriter and guitarist born in Boston, Massachusetts, and raised in Carrboro, North Carolina, North Carolina....
, Garfunkel's wife, Kim, and his son James.

Garfunkel performed the theme song for the 1991 television series, Brooklyn Bridge
Brooklyn Bridge (TV series)

Brooklyn Bridge is an United States television program which aired on Columbia Broadcasting System between 1991 and 1993. It is about a Jewish American family living in Brooklyn in the middle 1950s....
, and "The Ballad of Buster Baxter" for a 1998 episode of the children's educational television series Arthur
Arthur (TV series)

Arthur is a long-running American and Canadian edutainment television series for children's programming, that airs on PBS in the United States; T?l?vision de Radio-Canada, Knowledge and TVOKids in Canada; ABC1 in Australia and BBC One/ CBBC in the UK....
, where he was depicted as a singing/narrator moose. Garfunkel's performance of Monty Python
Monty Python

Monty Python is a group of six comedians who created Monty Python's Flying Circus, a British television comedy sketch show that first aired on the BBC on October 5, 1969....
 member Eric Idle
Eric Idle

Eric Idle is an England comedian, actor, author, singer and composer of comic songs. He wrote and performed as a member of the internationally renowned British comedy group Monty Python....
's "Always Look on the Bright Side of Life
Always Look on the Bright Side of Life

"Always Look on the Bright Side of Life" is a popular song written by Eric Idle that originally featured in the 1979 film Monty Python's Life of Brian and has gone on to become a common singalong at public events such as football matches as well as funerals....
" was used in the end credits of the 1997 film As Good as It Gets
As Good as It Gets

As Good as It Gets is a 1997 film from TriStar Pictures that tells the story of an Obsessive-compulsive disorder, Misanthropy, and Bigotryed Romance novel named Melvin Udall , and how his personality softens and changes....
.

Recent events

In 2003, Garfunkel made his debut as a songwriter on his Everything Waits to Be Noticed album. Teaming up with singer-songwriters Maia Sharp
Maia Sharp

Maia Sharp is a singer and songwriter. In addition to her solo career, she has written songs for Trisha Yearwood, Bonnie Raitt, Edwin McCain, Art Garfunkel., The Dixie Chicks, Paul Carrack, Cher and Mindy Smith....
 and Buddy Mondlock, the album contained several songs whose origins were poems written by Garfunkel. The album is recognized as his first effort at songwriting since his teenage years with Tom & Jerry.

In 2003, Simon and Garfunkel reunited again for a successful world tour that extended into 2004. In 2005, his song "Sometimes When I'm Dreaming" from The Art Garfunkel Album (1984) (written by Mike Batt
Mike Batt

Michael Philip Batt is a United Kingdom based songwriter, musician, Record producer and Deputy Chairman of the British Phonographic Industry....
) was re-recorded by ex-ABBA
ABBA

ABBA were a Sweden pop music group. The band consisted of Agnetha F?ltskog, Benny Andersson, Bj?rn Ulvaeus and Anni-Frid Lyngstad . They topped the charts worldwide from the mid-1970s in music to the early 1980s in music....
 singer Agnetha Fältskog
Agnetha Fältskog

Agnetha ?se F?ltskog is a Swedish Pop singer-songwriter and record producer, most notable for being a member of the popular Swedish pop group ABBA....
 on her album My Colouring Book.

In 2006, Garfunkel signed with Rhino Records (revived Atco Records
Atco Records

Atco Records is an United States record label owned by Warner Music Group, currently operating through WMG's Rhino Entertainment....
), and his first Rhino/Atco album Some Enchanted Evening was released in America on January 30, 2007. In late February 2007 during a German television interview to promote the new album, he expressed interest in reuniting with Paul Simon on a new Simon and Garfunkel album.

In 2009, Garfunkel appeared as himself on the HBO television show "Flight of the Conchords
Flight of the Conchords

Flight of the Conchords is a Grammy Award-winning New Zealand comedy duo composed of Bret McKenzie and Jemaine Clement. Billing themselves as "Formerly New Zealand's fourth most popular guitar-based digi-bongo a capella-rap-funk-comedy folk duo", the group uses a combination of witty observation, characterisation and acoustic folk guitars....
" episode entitled "Prime Minister."

Personal life

Garfunkel is an avid reader and bibliophile; his website contains a year-by-year listing of every book he has read since 1968. Currently the list contains more than 1,000 books.

Garfunkel has undertaken several cross-continental walks in his lifetime, writing poetry along the way. In the early 1980s, he walked across Japan
Japan

Japan is an island country in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, People's Republic of China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south....
 in a matter of weeks. From 1983 to 1997, Garfunkel walked across America, taking 40 excursions to complete the route from New York City to the Pacific coast of Washington. In May 1998, Garfunkel began an incremented walk across Europe.

Garfunkel has been arrested twice for the possession of cannabis
Cannabis

Cannabis is a genus of flowering plants that includes three putative species, Cannabis sativa L., Cannabis indica Lam., and Cannabis ruderalis Janisch....
: in early 2004 and again in August 2005.

Garfunkel is the brother of Jerome Garfunkel, the former editor of the specification for the COBOL
COBOL

COBOL is one of the oldest programming languages still in active use. Its name is an acronym for COmmon Business-Oriented Language, defining its primary domain in business, finance, and administrative systems for companies and governments....
 programming language.

Awards

  • 1969 Grammy Award, Record of the Year, for "Mrs. Robinson" (with Paul Simon)
  • 1969 Grammy Award, Best Contemporary Pop Performance, for "Mrs. Robinson" (with Paul Simon)
  • 1970 Grammy Award, Best Album, for Bridge Over Troubled Water
  • 1970 Grammy Award, Best Single Record, for "Bridge Over Troubled Water"
  • 1970 Grammy Award, Best Arrangement Accompanying Vocalists, for Bridge Over Troubled Water
  • 1977 Britannia Award, Best International Pop LP and Single, 1952-77, for "Bridge Over Troubled Water"


Discography

See Simon & Garfunkel discography for joint works with Paul Simon.

Solo albums

  • 1973 – Angel Clare
    Angel Clare

    Angel Clare is the debut album by Art Garfunkel released in 1973. It is his highest charting solo album' peaking at number 5 and contains his only Top 10 hit in the US, "All I Know" which peaked at number 9....
     (US #5, UK #14)
  • 1975 – Breakaway
    Breakaway (Art Garfunkel album)

    Breakaway is the second solo album by Art Garfunkel. It was released in 1975 on Columbia Records. It was produced by Richard Perry who has produced albums for other artists such as Carly Simon....
     (US #9, UK #7)
  • 1977 – Watermark
    Watermark (Art Garfunkel album)

    Watermark is the third solo album by Art Garfunkel, originally released in October 1977 on Columbia Records. When the first single, "Crying in My Sleep", failed to chart in the US, the album was immediately withdrawn and a version of " Wonderful World" was added to the track listing; the updated version of the album was released in ea...
     (US #19, UK #26)
  • 1979 – Fate for Breakfast
    Fate for Breakfast

    Fate for Breakfast is the fourth solo album by Art Garfunkel released in March 1979 on Columbia Records. It was his first album to miss the Top 40 and his first album containing no US Top 40 singles....
     (US #67, UK #2)
  • 1981 – Scissors Cut (US #113, UK #51)
  • 1984 – The Art Garfunkel album (Non-US collection) (UK #12)
  • 1986 – The Animals Christmas Album (with Amy Grant
    Amy Grant

    Amy Lee Grant is an United Statesn singer-songwriter, author, media personality and occasional actress, best known for her contemporary Christian music....
    )
  • 1988 – Lefty (US, #134)
  • 1989 – Garfunkel (collection)
  • 1993 – Up 'til Now
  • 1996 – Across America (UK #35)
  • 1997 – Songs from a Parent to a Child
  • 2002 – Everything Waits to Be Noticed
  • 2007 – Some Enchanted Evening (UK #82)


Singles

  • 1973 – "All I Know" (US #9, US AC #1)
  • 1973 – "I Shall Sing" (US #38, US AC #4)
  • 1974 – "Traveling Boy" (US #102, US AC #30)
  • 1974 – "Second Avenue" (US #34, US AC #6)
  • 1975 – "Breakaway" (US #39, US AC #1)
  • 1975 – "I Only Have Eyes for You
    I Only Have Eyes for You

    "I Only Have Eyes For You" is a popular music song by composer Harry Warren and lyricist Al Dubin, written in 1934 in music for the film Dames where it was introduced by Dick Powell and Ruby Keeler....
    " (US #18, US AC #1, UK #1)
  • 1977 – "Crying in my Sleep" (US AC #25, UK #25)
  • 1977 – "Wonderful World
    Wonderful World (song)

    "Wonderful World" was written in the late 1950s by soul music pioneer Sam Cooke along with songwriters Lou Adler and Herb Alpert, although at first attributed to the pseudonym Barbara Campbell which was the maiden name of Cooke's mother, and first recorded by Cooke in 1959 in music for Cooke's self-titled debut album....
    " (with Paul Simon and James Taylor
    James Taylor

    James Vernon Taylor is a Grammy Award winning United States singer-songwriter and guitarist born in Boston, Massachusetts, and raised in Carrboro, North Carolina, North Carolina....
    ) (US #17, US AC #1)
  • 1979 – "In A Little While (I'll Be On My Way)" (US AC #12)
  • 1979 – "Since I Don't Have You
    Since I Don't Have You

    "Since I Don't Have You" is a song by the doo-wop group The Skyliners. Released in 1958, the single reached #12 on the Billboard Hot 100 and also the top five of the R&B chart....
    " (US #53, US AC #5, UK #38)
  • 1979 – "Bright Eyes
    Bright Eyes (Art Garfunkel song)

    "Bright Eyes" is a song written by Mike Batt, and performed by Art Garfunkel. It was used in the soundtrack of the 1978 film Watership Down and as such is considered the theme song of the film....
    " (US AC #29, UK #1)
  • 1981 – "A Heart in New York" (US #66, US AC #10)
  • 1984 – "Sometimes When I'm Dreaming" (UK #77)
  • 1988 – "So Much in Love
    So Much in Love

    "So Much in Love" is a popular song sung by The Tymes that was a number-one song in the United States during the year 1963. It was The Tymes first hit single....
    " (US AC #11)


Appearances

  • The Wide World Over, The Chieftains
    The Chieftains

    The Chieftains are a Grammy-winning Ireland musical group founded in 1962, best known for being one of the first bands to make Folk music of Ireland popular around the world....
     (2002) — performed "Morning Has Broken
    Morning Has Broken

    "Morning Has Broken" is a favorite and well-known Christianity hymn, especially popular in children's services. Pop music and folk music Cat Stevens included an acoustic version on his 1971 album Teaser and the Firecat....
    "
  • Prime Minister, Flight of the Concords (2009)


Filmography

  • Catch-22
    Catch-22 (film)

    Catch-22 is a 1970 in film war film adapted from the Catch-22 by Joseph Heller. Considered a black comedy revolving around the "lunatic characters" of Heller's satirical novel, the film was mired in production problems and artistic issues that led to its commercial failure....
     (1970)
  • Carnal Knowledge
    Carnal knowledge

    Carnal knowledge is an Archaism or legal euphemism for sexual intercourse....
     (1971)
  • Bad Timing
    Bad Timing

    Bad Timing is a 1980 in film film directed by Nicolas Roeg, produced by Jeremy Thomas. The title of this movie was also used by musician Jim O'Rourke for his album Bad Timing ....
     (1980)
  • Good to Go
    Good to Go (film)

    Good to Go is a 1986 in film film directed by Blaine Novak, starring Art Garfunkel as a Washington, D.C. journalist who struggles to clear his name after being framed for rape and murder....
     (also known as Short Fuse) (1986)
  • Boxing Helena
    Boxing Helena

    Boxing Helena is the 1993 in film debut Film by Jennifer Lynch, daughter of David Lynch. The film stars Julian Sands and Sherilyn Fenn as the eponymous Helena....
     (1993)
  • The Rebound
    The Rebound

    The Rebound is an upcoming romantic comedy is about a 25-year-old man who starts a romance with his older single mother neighbour . The movie began shooting in April 2008 in New York....
     (2008)


External links

  • - Columbians Ahead of Their Time, article at Columbia University.