Alexa Ray Joel

Hearing Alexa Ray Joel’s music, it isn’t difficult to assume the young singer, songwriter, and pianist got parents who have nurtured her like of music and urged her to check out her muse. You will possibly not guess that one of these was pop celebrity Billy Joel, provided the jazz-influenced textures and deeply personal however playfully insouciant lyrical perspective of her tracks. Alexa Ray Joel was created to Joel and his wife Christie Brinkley on January 1, 1986; she’s stated that her like of music started with her dad performing nursery rhymes to her at his piano, and she started writing simple music as a young child. At age group 11, Alexa started taking traditional piano lessons, which she continuing for five years, aided partly by an ideal pitch she inherited from her father. At 17, Alexa went to a five-week workshop for budding music artists in the Berklee University of Music, which she cites with stimulating her to explore her presents as a vocalist and performer. After completing senior high school, Alexa enrolled at NY University being a musical movie theater student, however in her freshman calendar year she had taken a keep of lack and opted to spotlight launching her profession like a musician. Assembling a music group with Demian Sims on acoustic guitar, Jimmy Riot on bass, and Scottie Garapolo on drums, Alexa started working up materials and performed her first gigs at Maxwell’s, a venerable indie rock and roll location in Hoboken, NJ, when she was 19. While Alexa offers cited her parents with providing great support to her profession, both she and her popular folks demand she’s adopted her personal musical route without interference with her own speed. In nov 2006, Alexa released her 1st Compact disc, a six-song EP known as Sketches, offering five original music and a cover of Neil Young’s “DON’T ALLOW It ENABLE YOU TO GET Down,” having a full-length album planned for launch in 2007.