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I was born in Newark to Hungarian parents. I became famous as a member of Simon & Garfunkel and as a solo artist, winning 12 Grammy Awards.
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Born
1941-10-13, Newark
Awards
Grammy Award
Library of Congress Gershwin Prize
He was born in the United States to a Hungarian Jewish family. His father, Lajos, was a college professor and a double bass player who borrowed the name Lee Sims to lead a dance band; he was reportedly the first to perform on Hungarian radio. His mother, Bella, who lived to be 97 years old, passed away in 2007 and was a schoolteacher in America.
Paul's musical career began during his high school years at Forest Hills High School, where he met Art Garfunkel. They formed a duo and initially performed under the name Tom and Jerry. Between 1957 and 1964, he wrote more than 30 songs and occasionally collaborated with Garfunkel, continuing to perform as Tom and Jerry. This period produced songs such as "Our Song," "That's My Story," and "Surrender, Please Surrender," among others. After facing setbacks, Paul Simon traveled to the United Kingdom and pursued a solo career. He performed in small clubs, continuously honing his musical skills, which led to the release of The Paul Simon Song Book in 1965 in the UK. The album featured major hits like "I Am a Rock," "Leaves That Are Green," "April Come She Will," "Most Peculiar Man," and "The Sound of Silence," which he had previously performed with Garfunkel. In 1968, they won a Grammy Award for the music of The Graduate (released in Hungary as "Diploma előtt") and its song "Mrs. Robinson." A massive success came in 1981 with a concert in Central Park, attended by a crowd of half a million, which was recorded for both film and album. In 2014, he toured the world performing with Sting.
The Dohány Street synagogue is one of Budapest’s touristic highlights as it is the largest synagogue in Europe and the second largest in the world. The synagogue was built in 1859 in the Moorish style and it can seat 3000 people. Its huge size demonstrates the significance and the high economic and cultural standards of the Budapest Jewry of the age.
The temple was designed by Ludwig Förster (1797-1863), a German architect, professor of the Vienna Academy. The clerk of works was the architect Ignác Wechselmann (1828-1903) who later bequeathed his entire wealth to the Institute of the Blind. After Förster left, Frigyes Feszl, the famous architect of the Budapest Vigadó designed the temple’s inner sanctum. The official consecration of the synagogue took place on 6 September 1859. The interior of the synagogue is 1200 square metres, the towers are 44 metres high. There are 1497 seats for men downstairs and 1472 for women in the galleries, altogether the seating capacity of the flat-ceilinged inner space is nearly 3000 people.
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