With multi-platinum recordings, Broadway shows, Disney Animated Films, Television scores, books and a teaching and lecturing career that spans the nation, David Friedman is truly someone who has made a major mark in all areas of show business, as well as in the Human Potential movement.

From We Can Be Kind to Listen to My Heart, Help is on the Way, We Live on Borrowed Time, Trust The Wind and I’ll Be Here With You, David has written songs of inspiration, love and hope that take on new emotional meaning in these challenging times.

David also wrote the comedy classic, Rich, Famous and Powerful, as well as hundreds of other songs for film, TV, theater and cabaret.

After spending several years conducting musicals on Broadway, including Grease, Joseph & The Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, and Song and Dance, David went to Hollywood where he was the Conductor and Vocal Arranger on such Disney classics as Beauty & The Beast, Aladdin, Pocahontas and The Hunchback of Notre Dame. This led to David’s writing music and lyrics for Disney’s Aladdin and the King of Thieves and scoring three animated television series (Happy Ness, Sky Dancers & Dragon Flyz) and the film Trick, as well as a 13 year stint as Music Supervisor and Vocal Arranger of Broadway’s Beauty & The Beast.

David’s songs have been sung and recorded by luminaries such as Diana Ross (Your Love – Quadruple Platinum), Barry Manilow (We LIve on Borrowed Time, You’re There, I’ll Be Here With You, We Can Be Kind) Allison Krauss, Petula Clark, Laura Branigan, Kathie Lee Gifford, Jason Alexander, Lucie Arnaz, Laurie Beechman, Lainie Kazan, Leslie Uggams, Karen Mason, Alison Jiear, and Nancy LaMott, among many others.

In an effort to give back some of the lessons he’s learned in his fulfilling and varied career, David has written a book called, The Thought Exchange®-Overcoming Our Resistance to Living a SENSATIONAL Life. This book, which went to #1 on the Amazon Self-Help list, puts forth a method of metaphysics and human potential exploration which David created, and which picks up where many other methods leave off, to fill in the missing piece of why so many of us have so much trouble staying with the thoughts we want to stay with and seeing our dreams come true. Over the years, David has adapted this method to create a unique way to help singers overcome obstacles and deliver confident and inspired performances. David spends part of his time teaching workshops, giving talks and doing private coachings all over the U.S, in schools, theaters, churches and Fortune 500 Companies. He also teaches regular classes in Thought Exchange and Singing on Zoom.

David’s followed this book up with two more on the subject, The Healing Power of “Negative” Thoughts and “Uncomfortable” Sensations, and It’s ALL Inside (a Thought Exchange workbook.) His book, We Can Be Kind – Healing Our World One Kindness at a Time, is based on his song We Can Be Kind. His latest book, based on his song Help is on the Way, was released last year.

For more information on booking David or taking his classes, you can contact him at DavidFriedmanComposer@gmail.com.