Art Garfunkel was born on 5th November 1941 in Forest Hills, Queens, New York City. His parents were Romanian Jewish and his father worked in a garment packaging business, his mother Linda Maria Grossman was an architect.

Garfunkel met Paul Simon in the sixth grade and the duo performed together under the name 'Tom & Jerry'. Art Garfunkel taking the name 'Tom Graph' for the preformances. In the early sixities, Garfunkel went to Columbia University where he studied Arts and later mathematics. While in Columbia he sang with a group called the Kingsmen.

In 1963, Art Garfunkel and Paul Simon joined up again and produced their first album, this time renaming themselves as Simon & Garfunkel. Initially the record was not a success and the duo briefly split. However, the producer Tom Wilson recognised the potential of the album and re-released the song 'The Sound of Silence' as a single. The single was a massive success and it went to Number 1 in the Billboard charts. Following it's success Simon and Garfunkel rejoined. They went on to create five albums in the 1960's, releasing such folk-rocks classics as "Scarborough Fair", "Homeward Bound" & "I Am a Rock".

In 1968, Simon & Garfunkel arranged the music for the hit movie The Graduate, and the movie's theme song "Mrs. Robinson" earned them a Grammy. The Grammy collection grew in 1970 with their critically acclaimed album "Bridge Over Troubled Waters" which became the top selling LP of all time, shifting 9 million copies. However, at the height of their careers the pair split, citing personal differences and differing career interests.

The split came as Art Garfunkel was starting an acting career and Garfunkel appeared in the movie adaption of Catch-22 in the same year. Garfunkel performance was well recieved by the critics and went on to act in the film Carnal Knowledge.

Art Garfunkel attended Leicester University in the early seventies before he began to his solo career. His first Album "Angel Clare" was a top seller and his second album "Breakaway" when platinum. Two of his singles "I Only Have Eyes for You" and "Bright Eyes" were number 1's in the UK. Garfunkel and Simon briefly reunited in 1975 to record "My Little Town" and again in 1981 for The Concert in Central Park combined with a World Tour.Disagreements arose again during the tour and they parted ways once more. They put their differences behind them in 2003 for another World Tour. Garfunkel's latest album, "Some Enchanted Evening" has just been released on Janurary 30, 2007.