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Art Garfunkel
An American singer-songwriter and actor of Romanian Jewish ancestryw, Art Garfunkel was born in November 5, 1941 in Forest Hills, Queens, New York City. He was best known as half of the Grammy Award winning folk duo Simon & Art Garfunkel. Art Garfunkel was born.

He got his school education from Forest Hills High School.He met Paul Simon, his future singing partner, in the sixth grade. Art Garfunkel is the brother of Jerome Art Garfunkel, the former editor of the specification for the COBOL programming language.

Art Garfunkel had chosen his nickname because he liked to track, or 'graph' hits, on the pop charts. In the early 1960s, Art Garfunkel attended Columbia University, where he sang with the Kingsmen, an all-male a cappella group not to be confused with The Kingsmen of 'Louie Louie' fame.

In 1962, Art Garfunkel earned a Bachelor of Arts degree majoring in art history, followed by a Master's degree in mathematics. Art Garfunkel released several solo albums, after attending Leicester University in the 1970s.

He scored hits with 'I Only Have Eyes For You'. This song was written by Harry Warren in 1934. He also scored hits with 'Bright Eyes' and 'All I Know' which is on #9 in the United States.

A version of 'Bright Eyes' also appeared in the movie which was based on the famous novel, Watership Down. Art Garfunkel briefly reunited with Paul Simon in the 1975 hit 'My Little Town'. During this time, he also starred in major motion pictures Catch-22 and Carnal Knowledge.

Art Garfunkel reunited with Simon for The Concert in Central Park and a world tour, following disappointing sales of his album Scissors Cut. During the tour, they had disagreements, and Simon excluded Art Garfunkel's voice from a new album.

It was initially slated to be a Simon and Art Garfunkel album, but released as a Simon solo album 'Hearts and Bones'. Art 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.

Art Garfunkel's live 1996 concert Across America, recorded at the registry hall on Ellis Island features musical guests James Taylor, Art Garfunkel's wife, Kim, and his son James.

He performed the theme song for the television series, Brooklyn Bridge, and 'The Ballad of Buster Baxter' for a 1998 episode of the children's educational television series Arthur, where he was depicted as a singing/narrator moose.

Art Garfunkel's performance of Monty Python member Eric Idle's 'Always Look on the Bright Side of Life' was used in the end credits of the 1997 film As Good as It Gets.

In 2003, Art Garfunkel made his debut as a songwriter on his Everything Waits to Be Noticed album. Teaming up with singer-songwriters Maia Sharp and Buddy Mondlock, the album contained several songs whose origins were poems written by Art Garfunkel.

The album is recognized as his first effort at songwriting since his teenage years with Tom & Jerry. In the same year, Simon and Art Garfunkel reunited again for a successful world tour that extended into the next year.

In 2005, his song 'Sometimes When I'm Dreaming' from The Art Art Garfunkel Album (written by Mike Batt) was re-recorded by ex-ABBA singer Agnetha Faltskog on her album My Colouring Book. Art Garfunkel signed with Rhino Records in 2006.

His first Rhino/Atco album Some Enchanted Evening was released in America on January 30, 2007. In late February during a German television interview to promote the new album, he expressed interest in reuniting with Paul Simon on a new Simon and Art Garfunkel album.

Art Garfunkel is an avid reader, and 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. Art Garfunkel has undertaken several cross-continental walks in his lifetime, writing poetry along the way.

In the early 1980s, he walked across Japan in a matter of weeks. Art Garfunkel walked across America, taking 40 excursions to complete the route from New York City to the Pacific coast of Washington. After that, Art Garfunkel began an incremented walk across Europe.