Art Garfunkel

Arthur Ira "Art " Garfunkel ( born November 5, 1941 in Forest Hills, New York) is an American singer and actor. He gained fame with Paul Simon as a duo Simon & Garfunkel.

2.1 albums
2.2 Singles
2.3 employees

4.1 Actors
4.2 Title Music

Life

Art Garfunkel's ancestors are descended from Romanian Jews. His parents were the housewife Rose and traveling salesman Jacob "Jack" Garfunkel. Type has two brothers, the older and the younger Jules Jerome. He studied and received a bachelor 's degree in art history and a master's degree in mathematics. After that, he began his acting and music career.

Career

The beginnings

Together with his friend Paul Simon, whom he met in the early summer of 1953 during the rehearsals for the play Alice in Wonderland, he was the first musician duo Tom and Jerry (after the eponymous animated figures). Garfunkel was then known as Tom Graph. As of 1957, they called themselves simply Simon and Garfunkel and were known in the folk-rock scene.

After 1970

After the duo disbanded in 1970 after numerous hits and albums, Garfunkel pursued his acting career and also brought out a few solo albums. Although he was never able to build on the success of Simon and Garfunkel again, get him in the 1970s, some top 10 hits such as I Only Have Eyes for You, Bright Eyes and All I Know in Britain and the United States. 1975 came to a small collaboration with Paul Simon. For Simon's album Still Crazy After All These Years they took together on the song My Little Town. At the same time the song also appeared on the Garfunkel Breakaway LP and as a single. Bright Eyes was founded in 1979 by the use in the animated film Watership Down to number 1 single in the UK.

After 1980

After his album Scissors Cut was introduced only disappointing sales figures in 1981, he announced on September 19, 1981 together with Simon in Central Park in New York, a benefit concert in front of over half a million visitors. Simon and Garfunkel then worked on a new album together, but this project failed due to disagreements over Simon's lyrics and the voices that sing Garfunkel should do so.

After a long pause Garfunkel brought in 1988 released his album Lefty.

Since the 1980s, Garfunkel is intermittently walk over long distances on the road. His project The Walk already once led him across the North American continent and Europe since 1996. He can always settle at the point where it last stopped his march.

After 1990

In 1993, the album Up ' Til Now, which contained in addition to new songs and rarities and some hits followed. In 1997, Garfunkel on Ellis Iceland in New York his live album Across America on where the singer James Taylor participated as a guest.

After 2000

In February 2003, Simon and Garfunkel was awarded a Grammy for Lifetime Achievement. On this occasion, the duo reunited and began in late 2003, the Old Friends tour of the United States, Europe and Japan. Recordings of this tour were released in 2004 under the title Old Friends on double CD and DVD. Then there was also a new studio recording of the duo, the title of Citizen of the Planet. Since the winter of 2010 Garfunkel is suffering from vocal cord problems that make it nearly impossible appearances. Several attempts comeback had to be canceled because the voice did not withstand the loads.

Family

From 1972 to 1975 he was married to Linda Grossman. Later he had a relationship with Laurie Bird, in 1979 took his own life. This contributed to the fact that he largely retired in the 1980s from the public.

Since 1988 he has been married to his second wife Kim Cermak, with whom he had a son, James Arthur (born 15 December 1990) has. She supports her husband as a background singer at his concerts. At the concert on Ellis Iceland, dedicated to his family immigrated from Eastern Europe, contact Kim (real name Kathryn Luce ) and his son briefly together; This presentation is available both on the CD, as well as on the DVD of the concert. On 5 October 2005, he was 63 years for the second time father of a son named Beau.

Even at the age of 60 years Garfunkel still consumed marijuana. In the years 2004/2005 he was the police in connection with traffic violations, as well also the illegal possession of marijuana was determined in each case. By its own account after he has given up smoking.

Discography

( for joint work with Paul Simon see Simon & Garfunkel )

Albums

Singles

As Long As The Moon Can Shine
Traveling Boy
When A Man Loves A Woman
The French Waltz
In A Little While
Hang On In
Crying In My Sleep
Mary Was An Only Child

Cooperation

Album: Musical Mike Batt 's The Hunting of the Snark (1986; role The Butcher )
Album: Crosby, Stills & Nash: Daylight Again - Daylight Again and Cost of Freedom

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