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... Billy Joel and Christie Brinkley's singing daughter, Alexa Ray, would like to explain why she passed out backstage before her performance Sept. ...
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Get fill of food, music at Taste of Syracuse
... National headliners are Alexa Ray Joel, piano-playing-and-singing daughter of Billy Joel and Christie Brinkley in her first festival appearance ever, and ...
There will be as much musical diversity as there will be variety of foods at next month's Taste of Syracuse.
The musical lineup for the two-day, free-admission event in and around Clinton Square covers everything from high school rock bands to veteran Central New York bands to the daughter of one of the biggest pop stars in the business to a classic rocker whose songs have been bellowed by happy party-goers for the last 28 years.
National headliners are Alexa Ray Joel, piano-playing-and-singing daughter of Billy Joel and Christie Brinkley in her first festival appearance ever, and classic rocker Eddie Money.
The Syracuse Area Music Awards will hold its third outdoor session in conjunction with Taste of Syracuse on the main stage June 2. The awards, which began in 1993 in the Landmark Theatre, will feature performances by Simple Life, The Donna Colton Band, C Jack Motown Revue and Todd Hobin. Awards for best CDs in 10 categories will be announced around the music.
Ö The Central New York Blues Orchestra will perform with trombonist Tom "Bones" Malone at
Ö The emerging artist stage will showcase bands with musicians still in high school and top
Ö The Jazz Kids of Syracuse will start with The Noah Kellman Trio with Kellman on keyboards, Spencer Murphy on bass and Mike Tysko on drums. Another 10 high school players and a couple alumni will join them in a jam. The set kicks off the main stage action at
Ö Skip Murphy's House Party pairs the veteran
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Piano Man + Uptown Girl = Alexa Ray Joel! Piano Girl Debuts at the ...
Last week, Alexa Ray Joel, on-leave NYU student and daughter of Billy Joel and
Christie Brinkley, made her
Last week, Alexa Ray Joel, on-leave NYU student and daughter of Billy Joel and Christie Brinkley, made her New York City musical debut at the Cutting Room before a standing-room-only crowd that included both parents, her piano teacher, her publicist (whom she shares with Billy), and her voice coach. Alexa sang, played piano (backed by a three-man band), and chatted with the audience. (Sample banter: “My mom said, ‘That song is so good. It’s by Ray Charles, right?’ I said, ‘Uh, no, Mom, it’s by me.’ ”) Brinkley sat close to the stage, bobbed to the beats, and waved her table votive like a lighter at the end, while the more subdued Piano Man kept a low profile in the back. “I’m the luckiest mom in the world,” Brinkley gushed. “She literally came out singing. She would pop out these songs when she was 3, and I would say to Billy, ‘You should record that.’ ” The proud papa always knew his daughter had talent. “She’s pretty much doing this on her own. She had perfect pitch as a baby,” he said. “I guess it’s genetic.”
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Alexa Ray Joel puts her genes to good use - The Boston Globe
It was an excellent sign: the sight of Alexa Ray Joel in her pigtails and fishnets
checking out the opening band between smooches with her bass-player ...
It was an excellent sign: the sight of Alexa Ray Joel in her pigtails and fishnets checking out the opening band between smooches with her bass-player boyfriend.
Sign up for: Globe Headlines e-mail | Breaking News Alerts The 20-year-old daughter of pop star Billy Joel and supermodel Christie Brinkley looked like a real girl, a nice girl, albeit a girl who in so many ways, for both better and worse, drew the daddy card in the genetic lottery. Diminutive in stature, pronounced in facial features, and a natural singer of songs (miraculously, given that Kelly Osbourne is the rule and Bonnie Raitt the exception when it comes to musical celebrity offspring), Joel is tiptoeing into the family business.
Armed with no album, no team of handlers, and none of the fanfare that characteristically accompanies a rock-royalty debut, Joel brought a three-piece band and 10 songs, all but one original, to Great Scott on Monday. And while there were hardly enough patrons in the club to log a couple of dozen hits on her MySpace page, Joel, seated at her Yamaha electric piano, plowed valiantly through her 50-minute set of sturdy pop-rock tunes and contemplative singer-songwriter fare. There's nothing remotely indie or trendy about Joel. As a songwriter she's clearly absorbed the classics -- Carole King, Elton John, Billy Joel. As a singer she's quite frankly a powerhouse -- a nimble, soulful vocalist with genuine personality and a wonderfully original feel for phrasing.
As a performer, well, she's green. Joel announced each song with a stiff ''This next one is called . . ." A couple of them -- ''Far Away," most notable for its pedestrian chord changes and journal-entry lyrics, and a '50s-inflected toe-tapper that she should give to her father -- will surely be the source of a cringe in later years. But Joel's gifts are obvious despite her inexperience, and so is her intelligence. How clever to be honing her craft in small, sparsely filled rooms, for the curious few, away from the media glare. And how refreshingly novel.
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Alexa Ray Joel 'Sketches' out tour
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The New York-based performer, the daughter of Billy Joel (tickets | music) and Christie Brinkley, will kick off her tour Sept. 24 ...
Singer/songwriter Alexa Ray Joel (tickets | music) will head out on an 18-city tour this fall, backing her self-released and independently distributed debut EP, "Sketches."
The New York-based performer, the daughter of Billy Joel (tickets | music) and Christie Brinkley, will kick off her tour Sept. 24 in Portland, OR, opening for Teddy Geiger and Holly Brook, before moving into the headlining portion of the outing starting Sept. 26 in Spokane, WA.
The first half of her itinerary concentrates on the
The singer's first recorded effort, "Sketches," officially released in late August, contains six originals, and can be obtained through iTunes and also by accessing Joel's official website.
Joel was in the news recently after she passed out backstage before an early September performance at
"I'm absolutely fine, and I was only in the hospital for a few hours," she wrote. ""I pretty much exhausted myself to the point that I couldn't do the show...I ended up fainting from stress, lack of sleep, and just overall exhaustion."
Joel also cited her mother's well-publicized divorce proceedings with Peter Cook as a contributing factor to her stress level.
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JOEL'S DAUGHTER DEFENDS STEPMOTHER
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BILLY JOEL's daughter ALEXA RAY JOEL has spoken out in defence of her stepmother KATIE LEE, insisting Lee did not marry her father for his money. ...
BILLY JOEL's daughter ALEXA RAY JOEL has spoken out in defence of her stepmother KATIE LEE, insisting Lee did not marry her father for his money.
Joel married TV cookery correspondent KATIE LEE in 2004 - even though Lee is only four years older than 20-year-old Alexa, who is set to launch her own pop career.
But Alexa, the daughter of Joel and his first wife, model CHRISTIE BRINKLEY, believes their love is genuine.
She says, "I certainly know what it's like to be labelled and given a hard time because you're connected with someone - my dad. I'm sure that was hard for her, too. Once I got to know her, all my worries kind of went away.
"Katie has her own career going and she's very talented in her own right. If she was some air-headed ditzy girl, that would be an issue."
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Christie Brinkley Files For Divorce From adulterous husband...
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... s son Jack, 11, from her marriage to Richard Taubman; Brinkley has another daughter from her relationship with Billy Joel, the 20 year old Alexa Ray Joel. ...
Former model Christie Brinkley has filed for divorce from her husband of 10 years Peter Cook.
Last month it was revealed that Cook had had an affair with an 18 year old employee Diana Bianchi; Brinkley and Cook have one child together, and eight year old daughter, Sailor.
Cook’s lawyer David Aronson, confirmed that divorce papers had been filed, and according to MSN said: "We are told that a divorce action has been commenced in
He added that Cook "regrets that this happened. He was hopeful that he and Ms Brinkley would be able to work their way through this problem and put their marriage back together, but obviously she has decided otherwise.
"He has instructed us that we are to handle this matter in as amicable and private a fashion as possible under the circumstances, and he hopes that everyone out there can respect the privacy of Christie and the children.”
Cook adopted Brinkley’s son Jack, 11, from her marriage to Richard Taubman; Brinkley has another daughter from her relationship with Billy Joel, the 20 year old Alexa Ray Joel.
It is as yet unsure hoe Brinkley and Cook will split their property and custody of their children.
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Christie Brinkley to File for Divorce
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In Brinkley family news, CHRISTIE BRINKLEY is preparing to file for divorce and her daughter ALEXA RAY JOEL reportedly fainted before a concert last Saturday ...
In Brinkley family news, CHRISTIE BRINKLEY is preparing to file for divorce and her daughter ALEXA RAY JOEL reportedly fainted before a concert last Saturday night.
Christie's 20-year-old daughter with BILLY JOEL reportedly wrote on her Internet blog, "I ended up fainting from stress, lack of sleep and just overall exhaustion about five minutes before the show... I woke up to find myself in an ambulance rushing me to a local hospital near the campus, and it was -- overall -- a pretty scary night." She is reportedly now fine.
And just two months after the news broke that Christie's husband, attorney PETER COOK, was having an affair with his 19-year-old assistant, the former supermodel has reportedly begun the process of filing divorce papers against her estranged spouse.
DAVID ARONSON, a lawyer from Peter Cook's attorney's office, said on Thursday that he has yet to see the complaint, but understands that a summons has already been filed.
Aronson also released the following statement regarding the dissolution of Brinkley and Cook's 10-year marriage: "We're trying to keep as low a profile as possible. (Peter) was hopeful that they could work out their difficulties and get on with their marriage. He loves his family. Peter is very saddened that it has come to this point. But he acknowledges that's where they are. His intention (and his lawyers have been instructed to) handle this as amicably and private as possible under the circumstances. We're not looking to get into he said she said. It's just not appropriate."
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JOEL'S DAUGHTER PASSES OUT BEFORE COLLEGE SHOW
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BILLY JOEL and CHRISTIE BRINKLEY's daughter ALEXA RAY JOEL has spoken out after passing out backstage before a concert at
BILLY JOEL and CHRISTIE BRINKLEY's daughter ALEXA RAY JOEL has spoken out after passing out backstage before a concert at Marist College in New York last Saturday night (09SEP06).
Writing on her MySpace.com blog site, the singer admits the stress of her touring schedule and her mother's very public marriage problems left her anxious throughout the day before the show.
And it all came to a head five minutes before she was due to hit the stage at the college with her quartet.
She writes, "I pretty much exhausted myself to the point that I couldn't do the show... I ended up fainting from stress, lack of sleep, and just overall exhaustion.
"I woke up to find myself in an ambulance rushing me to a local hospital near the campus, and it was - overall - a pretty scary night... This has never happened before.
"I guess I was really pushing myself to the limit this week. I was having quite a bit of anxiety in general that day, so I guess this was just my body's way of telling me to RELAX... something I haven't done in a while!" Joel hopes to reschedule the show later this year.
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Bobby's Alleged Gal Favors Bill
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... Elsewhere, the stress of her mother's ordeal and a busy professional schedule may have felled Brinkley's 20-year-old daughter with Billy Joel, Alexa Ray. ...
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Brinkley Officially Files For Divorce, Daughter Collapses
Christie Brinkley filed for divorce from Peter Cook earlier this week in Suffolk County Court, two months after Cook admitted to having an affair with a 19-year-old former employee of his architectural firm. One of the philanderer's lawyers tells the AP, "[Cook] regrets that this happened ... He was hopeful that they would be able to work through this problem and put their marriage back together, but obviously she has decided otherwise."
Elsewhere, the stress of her mother's ordeal and a busy professional schedule may have felled Brinkley's 20-year-old daughter with Billy Joel, Alexa Ray. The aspiring singer-songwriter says on her MySpace blog that she fainted Saturday "from stress, lack of sleep and just overall exhaustion about five minutes" before a show in upstate
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Christie Brinkley divorcing husband who had affair with teen
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