{"name":"Art Garfunkel","title":"Art Garfunkel","id":586,"slug":"art-garfunkel","url":"https://www.guitarparty.com/api/v3/core/authors/586/?format=json","bio_short":"Arthur Ira Garfunkel (born 5 November 1941) is an American singer and actor, best known as half of the folk duo <a href=\"http://www.last.fm/music/Simon%2B%2526%2BGarfunkel\" class=\"bbcode_artist\">Simon &amp; Garfunkel</a>.  Arthur Ira Garfunkel was born in Forest Hills, Queens, New York, in New York City. He is of Romanian Jewish ancestry.  He met his future singing partner, <a href=\"http://www.last.fm/music/Paul+Simon\" class=\"bbcode_artist\">Paul Simon</a>, in the sixth grade. Between 1956 and 1962, the two had performed together as Tom &amp; Jerry. Garfunkel (&quot;Tom Graph&quot;) chose his nickname because he liked to track, or &quot;graph&quot; hits, on the pop charts.","artist_img":"//guitarparty.overcastcdn.com/images/ArtGarfunkelartg.2e16d0ba.fill-1200x675-c100.format-jpeg.jpg","songs":[{"id":842,"title":"Bridge over Troubled Water","url":"https://www.guitarparty.com/songs/bridge-over-trouble-water/"},{"id":23041,"title":"Kathy’s Song..","url":"https://www.guitarparty.com/songs/kathys-song/"},{"id":26899,"title":"Scarborough Fair","url":"https://www.guitarparty.com/songs/scarborough-fair/"},{"id":24352,"title":"Two sleepy people","url":"https://www.guitarparty.com/songs/two-sleepy-people/"}]}