Dean Friedman (born 1955, New Jersey) is an American singer-songwriter who plays piano, keyboard, guitar and other instruments, including the harmonica. Hit Raised in Paramus, New Jersey, Dean Friedman received his first guitar when he was 9, in 1964, and started writing songs. When he was a teenager, he played weddings and bar mitzvahs as part of Marsha and the Self-Portraitshttp://www.answers.com/Dean+Friedman?cat=entertainment, sent out demos and majored in music at City College of New York where one of his teachers was guitarist David Bromberg. By the time he was 20, in 1975, he had a manager and a recording contract with Cashman and West's Lifesong label. In the USA he is described as a one-hit wonder, following his 1977 hit song "[LINK: http://www.deanfriedman.com/lyrics/lyrics_main.html] Ariel", which reached # 26 on the Billboard national pop charts and stayed in the