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Arthur Ira Garfunkel Wiki Biography

Arthur Ira Garfunkel was born on the 5th November 1941, in Forest Hills, Queens, New York City, USA, of part-Romanian and Jewish descent, and is a singer, songwriter and actor, perhaps better known as the co-founder of the folk rock duo Simon & Garfunkel, with Paul Simon. As an actor, Art is recognized for appearing in films including “As Good As It Gets” (1997), “Lost In Translation” (2003), “The Rebound” (2009), etc. His career has been active since 1956.

So, have you ever wondered how rich Art Garfunkel is, as of early 2016? It is estimated from sources that Art counts his total net worth at the remarkable amount of $45 million, which has been accumulated through his involvement in the entertainment industry as a musician and actor, during a career now spanning over 60 years.

Art Garfunkel was raised with two brothers in Queens, the middle child of Jacob and Rose Garfunkel. From a very young age he showed interests in music and acting, which his father spotted and bought him a wire recorder so that he could practice. When attending PS 164 elementary school, Art was cast in the school production of “Alice In Wonderland”, where he met Paul Simon. They became friends, and soon after, in 1956, Art’s professional career began when they formed the folk duo Tom & Jerry, however, they had little initial success.

Nevertheless, after Columbia College from where Art graduated with a BA in art history, they reformed, and called themselves Simon & Garfunkel, releasing their first album in 1964, entitled “Wednesday Morning 3 A.M.”, reaching No. 30 on the Billboard top 200 chart, which eventually received platinum certification, and certainly increased Art’s net worth. The duo existed until 1970, when they decided to go solo, but until then, the duo released four more albums, all of which were critically acclaimed, achieving platinum certification. Their last album, “Bridge Over Troubled Water”, topped charts in several countries, including Sweden, Finland, Australia, Japan, USA, and Norway. It also received eight times platinum certification only in USA, and also four times platinum in Canada, and in United Kingdom 10 times platinum, helping increase Art’s net worth to a large degree. Some of Simon & Garfunkel most popular songs include “Sound Of Silence, “I Am A Rock”, “Mrs. Robinson”, and “Bridge Over Troubled Water”, among many others. A free reunion concert in New York’s Central Park in 1981 drew 500,000 people, and a further free one in Rome’s Colisseum in 2004 some 600,000 – such was the duo’s popularity.

After 1970, Art embarked on a solo career, releasing 10 studio albums, some of which received gold and platinum certification, however, most of them became big busts, but still increased his net worth somewhat. Some of the albums he released alone include “Angel Clare” (1973), “Breakaway” (1975), “Fate Fro Breakfast” (1979), “Lefty” (1988), “Everything Waits To Be Noticed” (2002), and his latest release “Some Enchanted Evening” (2007).

Apart from his successful career as a musician, Art has also been recognized as actor, appearing in such films as “Catch-22” (1970), and “Carnal Knowledge” (1971), directed by Mike Nichols, for which he received a Golden Globe nomination for Best Supporting Actor. Other movies in which he has appeared are “Boxing Helena” (1993) in the role of Dr. Lawrence Augustine, and most recently “The Rebound” (2009) as Harry Finklestei. All these films added to his net worth.

Thanks to his successful career in music, Art received several prestigious awards, including six Grammy awards, and Lifetime Achievement award. Furthermore, he was inducted into the Rock ‘n’ Roll Hall Of Fame in 1990, alongside his friend and colleague Paul Simon.

Regarding his personal life, before he married Kim Garfunkel in 1988, he was in marriage with Linda Grossman. With Kim, he has two children, and they live in New York. Spare time he spends reading and writing poetry.

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Arthur Ira Garfunkel Quotes

• [on guitarist Dean Parks] His nuancy guitar support and the loving, caressing guitar work that Paul Simon does on a Martin acoustic guitar, just kills me and makes me sing lovely. I ride that guitar like a jockey on a horse that is having a fabulous little spring.
• I really got a kick out of some of my performances. I did my job good. I don’t listen to past work often. When I’m making it I play ’em hundreds of times, stroking the record and finessing the mix. When it’s over, it’s gone for years.
• I thought I was going to go to college and pick one of the more reputable professions and be an upright citizen. All of that seems like so much nonsense now. I guess it doesn’t do too well to envision these projected scenarios of the future. What happens in just about every case is you fall into whatever you fall into. The next thing you know, you’re looking back in retrospect at what it is you’ve now been doing for the last how many years.
• I have a very sure-footed sense of what I like, and exactly how much I like it. Give me two listenings of a song, and I can tell you exactly how it sits with me, and…I know my musical taste. I know my ears, I know what I respond to.
• I asked myself constantly why I didn’t marry her, because surely she was the apple of my eye. She was everything I was looking for in a woman. But I was very hurt by my first marriage, so as far as marriage to Laurie was concerned, I was extra scared. I was heartbroken. It laid me low. I used to get very sad when the sun went down. The nights were very lonely for me. [About his relationship with Laurie Bird]

Arthur Ira Garfunkel Important Facts

• Cousin of former boy band manager, Louis J. Pearlman, who helped launched the careers of the Backstreet Boys and *NSYNC.
• Took 40 excursions on his walk across America to complete the route from New York to Los Angeles from 1983 to 1997.
• Is mentioned in the Barenaked Ladies’ song “If I Had $1000000” (1993).
• His paternal grandparents were Romanian Jewish immigrants. His maternal grandparents were Jewish immigrants from Russia/Poland.
• Has a Masters of Science in Mathematics. Was going to pursue his PhD, but his career took off before that happened.
• Garfunkel became a father again via surrogate mother, Beau Daniel arrived October 2005.
• Reunited with Paul Simon in a nostalgia tour for the first time in two decades in 2003.
• Father, with Kim Garfunkel, of a son, James Garfunkel.
• His all-time favorite pop song is Paul McCartney’s “Here, There and Everywhere” and his all-time favorite album is Fleetwood Mac’s “Rumours”.
• He was elected to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame (as a member of Simon & Garfunkel) in 1990.
• Dated Penny Marshall at the same time that Carrie Fisher was dating his musical partner, Paul Simon.
• Was living with actress Laurie Bird at the time of her suicide in 1979.
• Between his stints with musical duos “Tom and Jerry” and Simon & Garfunkel, released some non-charting solo material as “Artie Garr”.
• Also sang with Paul Simon in the late 50s. As the duo “Tom and Jerry”, they had a top 50 hit in 1957 with “Hey, Schoolgirl”. (Garfunkel used the stage name “Tom Graph”; Simon was “Jerry Landis”.) The duo broke up at the end of the 50s after a string of flop follow-ups, only to reunite a few years later under their real names.

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