[citation needed] Avremel, as many of his friends call him, had appeared as a guest soloist on the Amudai Shaish Orchestra's Kol Sason V'kol Simcha - Wedding Album in 1981.

[citation needed] In summer 2009, Fried made a concert tour in Israel where he introduced Israeli singer and composer Chanan Yovel and featured the songs "Rak T'filla" ("רק תפילה") and "U'Nesane Tokef" ("ונתנה תוקף").

[citation needed] Fried's grandfather, Rabbi Meir Yisroel Isser Friedman, was the head of the Bobov Eitz Chaim Yeshiva in Krenitz, a renowned halakhist, and a Hasid of the Rebbe of Bluzhov.

After World War II he resided in Crown Heights for many years, before moving to Borough Park, Brooklyn.

His father, Yaakov Moshe Friedman, was originally a Hasid of Bobov, and worked as an administrator at the United Lubavitcher Yeshiva in Crown Heights for 40 years.

Avraham was the headline performer along with Mordechai Ben David and others at the Ohel [Organization] concerts in Madison Square Garden during the late 1990's.