Billy Joel

Billy Joel was born in New York in 1949. Soon after he was born, he moved to Long Island and then grew up there. He took piano lessons at a very young age. He used to play in the piano bar to help support himself and his family. Joel dropped out of high school to pursue a career in music, and in 1971 began his personal career with his first album, Cold Spring. He has sold more than 150 million albums worldwide.

Three of Joel’s songs, Still Rock for Me, Tell Her and We Didn’t Start Making Fire reached the top of the Billboard Hot 100 charts, all of which written by himself. In 1977, his breakthrough album The Stranger released and sold more than 10 million copies, which gave birth to many popular singles including Just the Way You Are. Although Joel stopped composing and releasing pop music most of the time after the release of River of Dreams in 1993, he is still touring.