Debbie Friedman

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Debbie Friedman (born c. DEBORAH LYNN FRIEDMAN 1952) is an American composer and singer of songs with Jewish religious content. She was born in Utica, New York but moved with her family to Minnesota at age 5.

She wrote many of her early songs as a song leader at Olin-Sang-Ruby camp in Oconomowoc, WI in the early 1970s. Since her debut in 1971, she has published more than 19 albums. Her work is inspired by such diverse sources as Joan Baez, Peter, Paul and Mary, and a number of folk music artists. She uses English and Hebrew lyrics and writes for all ages.

She survived a bout of multiple Sclerosis

In 2006 a movie was made about Debbie by producer Ann Coppel entitled "A Journey of Spirit". [1]*

In 2007 Ms. Friedman accepted an appointment to the faculty of Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion's School of Sacred Music in New York where she will instruct both rabbinic and cantorial students. article: [2]*

[edit] Discography

Partial, see discography for the list on her Web site.

Songs of the Spirit- The Debbie Friedman Anthology
Light These Lights
Debbie Friedman Live in Concert
The Water in the Well
The Alef Bet
Debbie Friedman at Carnegie Hall
The World of Your Dreams
And You Shall Be a Blessing
Ani Ma-Amin
Not by Might Not by Power
Sing Unto God

[edit] Affiliations

Debbie Friedman is an alumna (1969) of Highland Park High School in Saint Paul, Minnesota. She was inducted into the school's Hall of Fame in 1999.[3]