įor his 16th birthday, he received his first guitar. Also on the team was his best friend, future Olympic fencer Herb Cohen. We hung out in the front of Erasmus High and smoked cigarettes." After his family moved to Brighton Beach, he attended Abraham Lincoln High School and was a member of the fencing team. In Brooklyn, he attended Erasmus Hall High School and was a member of the Freshman Chorus and Choral Club, along with classmate Barbra Streisand : 155 Diamond recalled they were not close friends at the time: "We were two poor kids in Brooklyn. He grew up in several homes in Brooklyn, having also spent four years in Cheyenne, Wyoming, where his father was stationed in the army. His parents were Rose ( née Rapoport 1918–2019) and Akeeba "Kieve" Diamond (1917–1985), a dry-goods merchant. All four of his grandparents were immigrants, from Poland on his father's side and Russia on his mother's. ĭiamond was born in Brooklyn, New York City, to a Jewish family. In 2011, he was an honoree at the Kennedy Center Honors, and he received the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award in 2018. He has also acted in films, making his screen debut in the 1980 musical drama film The Jazz Singer.ĭiamond was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1984 and into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2011, and he received the Sammy Cahn Lifetime Achievement Award in 2000.
Thirty-eight songs by Diamond have reached the top 10 on the Billboard Adult Contemporary charts, including " Sweet Caroline". He has had ten No. 1 singles on the Hot 100 and Adult Contemporary charts: " Cracklin' Rosie", " Song Sung Blue", " Longfellow Serenade", " I've Been This Way Before", " If You Know What I Mean", " Desirée", " You Don't Bring Me Flowers", " America", " Yesterday's Songs", and " Heartlight".
He has sold more than 100 million records worldwide, making him one of the best-selling musicians of all time.
(And, of course, there’s not a karaoke bar in the world that hasn’t worn out its backing track of “Sweet Caroline.”) But Diamond’s swinging-’60s pop was undercut by disarming ruminations on loneliness, like “Solitary Man.” And in the ’70s, he reinvented himself as a denim-suited Sinatra on the lavish live set Hot August Night, while ascending to adult-contemporary sainthood with the strings-sweetened Streisand duet “You Don’t Bring Me Flowers.” But a pair of intimate, Rick Rubin-produced albums in the mid-2000s remind us that behind the big-stage spectacle is an artist who’s always seeking to communicate heartfelt emotions in the simplest terms.Neil Leslie Diamond (born January 24, 1941) is an American singer-songwriter, musician and occasional actor.
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When you consider Neil Diamond’s legacy, you have to specify which Neil Diamond you’re talking about: The professional songwriter who’s penned standards for countless artists? The exemplar of ultra-personal singer-songwriter fare? The glitzy entertainer behind anthems like “Cracklin’ Rosie” and “America”? Born in 1941 and raised in Brooklyn by Jewish immigrant parents who ran a clothing shop, Diamond first made his name as a Brill Building tunesmith (alongside folks like Carole King and Gerry Goffin), providing The Monkees with a jangle-pop gem worthy of their Fab Four forebears: 1966’s “I’m a Believer.” At the same time, his own solo albums teemed with soulful sing-alongs that proved adaptable to any genre: “Kentucky Woman” got rocked up into a breakthrough hit for Deep Purple, while UB40 famously gave “Red Red Wine” a reggae makeover in 1983.
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