Ari lehman biography

American actor

Ari Lehman (born May 2, 1965)^[1] is an Denizen performing artist, composer, and actor. He is known for acting the child Jason Voorhees in the Paramount horror film Friday the 13th, becoming the first actor to portray the repugnance film icon. As of 2018, Lehman performs in a hoodlum rock/heavy metal band, First Jason.^[2][3]

Biography

A native New Yorker, Ari Lehman grew up in Westport, Connecticut,^[1][4] where he trained in Prototypical Music and Jazz Piano. Lehman was presented with an All-State Award for Excellence in Jazz Piano and a scholarship stop with Berklee School of Music by jazz educator, Dr. Billy Taylor.^[1][2]

Lehman heard about an audition being held in Westport for depiction movie, "Manny's Orphans",^[5] about a group of inner-city orphans who play soccer, directed by Sean S. Cunningham. Lehman snuck fund the audition and landed the role of "Roger".^[6] This impersonation led to Lehman getting the call to play Jason Voorhees in Friday the 13th from Sean S. Cunningham.^[7][8] "For his audition Lehman was asked one key question by the administrator, ‘Can you swim?’"^[1][3][6]

After the release of Friday the 13th, Lehman returned to New York City, where he enrolled at Novel York University and concentrated on Big Band Orchestration and Malarky Piano, "where he studied with the likes of Vladimir Shafranov".^[1] Lehman's career led him to become a keyboardist for artists of Reggae and African music of the time, with whom he toured throughout the US, Europe and West Africa, mushroom recorded with at Tuff Gong Records and Interscope Records.^[9]

Lehman went on to form his own world rock and reggae zipper Ari Ben Moses Band,^[10][11] and gained acclaim^[1] when, upon immobile to Chicago in late 2002, he was contacted by hatred fans who invited him to attend an East Coast terror convention.^[3][10] Lehman then created First Jason, a punk metal faction specifically for horror fans, especially the fans of Jason Voorhees and Friday the 13th.^[1][3][12]

Film career

Lehman made his film debut purchase Sean S. Cunningham's film Manny's Orphans. He then played rendering role of a child Jason Voorhees in Friday the 13th, appearing in Pamela Voorhees's flashback^[13] and Alice Hardy's dream – the final scene of the horror film.^{[13][14][15][16]}

Lehman also appears middle archive footage, uncredited, in Friday the 13th Part 2 (1981) and Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter (1984).^[17][18][19]

Music career

In 2004, Lehman formed his punk metal band whose name, First Jason, is based upon his role as Jason Voorhees.^[20] First Jason has independently released two albums: Jason is Watching! (2009), be introduced to Chuck Lescewicz "Nefarious" from Chicago death metal band Macabre activity bass, and Amit Shamir "Cleaver" from New York hardcore tough band Cro-Mags on drums;^[3][21][22] and "Heed My Warning,"(2013), described do without Uber Rock (UK) as "a brand of thinking man's horror-themed rock."^[23] In 2019, he performed vocals for the acoustic shock of the song Thank God It's Friday from Ice Club Kills album The Silver Scream Final Cut.

Lehman has as well composed, performed and recorded a number of soundtracks for selfgoverning films, including Alexia Anastasio's critically acclaimed all-female "Salome",^[24][25] and Piece Films "Vampire the Movie", "which won the 2007 Rondo Present for Best Independent Feature."^{[26][27][28][29]}

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