Art Garfunkel

To my ears, Art Garfunkel possesses one of the purest voices ever recorded — an instrument so naturally luminous it could make Paul Simon's words feel carved in light. What intrigues me is the tension in his story: the Columbia-educated intellectual who wrote poetry and never quite fit the rock-star mold, yet delivered the vocal on Bridge over Troubled Water, a performance I would put against anything in popular music. He is often framed as the quieter half of a famous duo, but I think of him as proof that interpretation is its own form of authorship. Some singers perform songs; Garfunkel inhabits them.

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Name (English)

Art Garfunkel

Name (Japanese)

アート・ガーファンクル

Reading

あーと・がーふぁんくる

Born

November 5, 1941 (age 85)

Origin

Forest Hills, New York, United States

Occupation

singer-songwriter / street artist / poet / actor / songwriter

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Scorpio / Snake

High school

Forest Hills High School

University

Columbia University

Awards & achievements

• John Jay Award

• Official sitehttps://www.artgarfunkel.com/
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Art%20Garfunkel
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%A2%E3%83%BC%E3%83%88%E3%83%BB%E3%82%AC%E3%83%BC%E3%83%95%E3%82%A1%E3%83%B3%E3%82%AF%E3%83%AB
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4039

Tags

• New York
• singer-songwriter
• street artist
• poet

Last updated

November 5, 2026

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