His mother, Rosalind Nyman, was born in England, to an agnostic Jewish family. His father, Howard Joel, was a Jewish Holocaust survivor from Germany, whose father Karl Amson Joel owned the fourth largest mail order company in Germany before being dispossessed by the Nazis. In truth, Joel lived on Meeting Lane in Hicksville, a town that has existed since 1648, near the Levittown border, in a section of town where Post-WW2, there were houses developed by Abe Levitt, known as Levitt Houses, thus forming nearby Levittown. Often he himself, along with many in the media, have confused this with him living in neighboring Levittown, NY (formed 1947). Joel first lived in the South Bronx, in New York City, but his family soon moved to Hicksville, Long Island. He has continued to tour occasionally (sometimes with Elton John) in addition to writing and recording classical music.
Joel's induction into the Songwriter's Hall of Fame (Class of 1992), the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame (Class of 1999), and the Long Island Music Hall of Fame (Class of 2006) has further solidified his status as one of America's leading music icons. He is one of the very few rock (or even pop) artists to have Top 10 hits in the '70s, '80s, and '90s.Ī six-time Grammy Award winner, he has sold in excess of 100 million records worldwide and is the sixth best selling artist in the United States, according to the RIAA. Joel recorded many popular hit songs and albums from 1971 until he stopped recording pop/rock music in 1993. Since releasing his first hit song, "Piano Man," in 1973, Joel has become a multi-million-selling recording artist. Billy Joel (born William Martin Joel on in Bronx, New York, USA) is an American pianist, singer-songwriter, and composer.
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