Avraham Shabsi Hakohen Friedman better known by his stage name, Avraham Fried, (born March 22, 1959) is a popular musical entertainer in the Orthodox Jewish community. Fried's grandfather, Rabbi Meir Yisroel Isser Friedman, was the Rav of Krenitz, a renowned halakhist and Sanzer Chusid. After World War 2 he resided in Boro Park, Brooklyn. His father, Yaakov Moshe Friedman, was a Chusid of the Rebbe of Bluzhov, and worked as an administrator at the United Lubavitcher Yeshiva in Crown Heights for 40 years. Fried was encouraged towards a music career by Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson, the re