   
Billy Joel has a background with a lot of music in it. His father was a classical pianist and Billy himself began piano lessons at a young age.
He started to sing in bands during high school and later on. Eventually he went solo.
His songs have a lot of classical elements in it, inspired by the pieces of music Billy played during his piano lessons, like Chopin, Mozart and Beethoven.
His voice can be characterized as a 'diamand in the rough'. From a technical point of view his vocal technique is not very well trained, but his voice produced is natural sound. Billy doesn't concider himself to be a singer, he's more like a story teller.
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Many of his great songs, like New York State of Mind, Just the Way you are and The Piano Man can be found on his Greatest Hits Album:
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