Ezra Furman
American musician
Liz Furman (born September 5, 1986), known professionally as Ezra Furman, is an American musician and songwriter.
Furman was the lead singer and guitarist of Ezra Furman and the Harpoons, formed in 2006, which ended with Mysterious Power (2011). Her subsequent work has included the albums Day of the Dog (2013), Perpetual Motion People (2015), Transangelic Exodus (2018), All of Us Flames (2022), and Goodbye Small Head (2025) as well as parts of the soundtrack for all four seasons of the Netflix series Sex Education.
Early life
Furman is Jewish. Her father is from a Jewish family, and her mother converted to Judaism. She has three siblings. Her younger brother Jonah was the lead singer and bassist of the Boston-based rock band Krill, which broke up in 2015. Her elder brother Noah is a visual artist who designed the cover of the Harpoons album Banging Down the Doors.
Furman began attending the rabbinical school of Hebrew College in Newton, Massachusetts, planning to become a rabbi and later dropped out, saying in an interview "I tried to be in rabbinical school and I dropped out, but I am trying to be both a spiritual person and a leader of the Jewish people in some way. The title 'rabbi' is the official way, but you don't need to have a title to do these things and create literature and gather your people."
By 2016, Furman was observing Shabbat while touring, avoiding Friday-night performances and Saturday travel, and putting on tefillin and studying the weekly Torah portion on the road.
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