Joel interviewed celebrities and designers as a host for social networking website during New York Fashion Week in September 2012 and February 2013, Īnd she performed at the launch of Bobbi Brown's book Pretty Powerful: Beauty Stories to Inspire Confidence, also appearing with Brown on Today.
She performed at Manhattan's "Fashion's Night Out" in 2009 ( Elie Tahari), 2010 ( Bloomingdale's), and 2011 (Bloomingdale's). Joel is active in New York fashion events. Joel did residencies in New York City, including the Oak Room of the Plaza Hotel (late 2010-2011, said to add a "contemporary vibe" to the "storied venue," ) and the Café Carlyle at the Carlyle Hotel (April 2014). Joel described the "Notice Me" video as using fashion to show both a modern look and a vintage throwback look. Newsday described the single as having a "carefree braininess" and "bouncy guitar riffs and an instantly hummable chorus" that made Joel's work "sound like Regina Spektor crossed with Katy Perry." "Notice Me" is Joel's first collaboration with producer Tommy Byrnes and her first since signing with Long Beach, New York management company OCD Music Group/The Hang Productions. about a bad breakup." Īlexa Joel's single, "Notice Me", released on May 24, 2010, was listed as a "Hit-Bound song" on the Sirius XM Hits 1 satellite radio channel in August 2010. Joel debuted her single "Invisible" on The Wendy Williams Show in October 2009, the song being described as a "piano-driven ballad. Joel and her father performed the song " Baby Grand" at a Barack Obama election fundraiser at the Hammerstein Ballroom on October 16, 2008. She has also supported animal rights, including the Animal Haven's Speakeasy Bash (New York City, 2012). Jude Children's Research Hospital (New York City, 2010). Other charity events at which Joel has performed include the "Save Sag Harbor" benefit concert (2008), the "Stage For The Cure" benefit for pediatric cancer (New York City, 2008), a benefit for "The Art of Elysium" (artists for seriously ill children The Hamptons, 2009), a benefit for Habitat for Humanity ( Long Beach, New York, 2010), the " Right To Play Day" benefit ( Sag Harbor, New York, 2010), and the Eric Trump Foundation benefit for St. Joel performed onstage with her father during the 2008 Rainforest Foundation Fund Benefit Concert at Carnegie Hall on May 8, 2008. Joel performed at the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival (April 2007), the 2007 Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival (June 2007), and the Albany Riverfront Jazz Festival (September 2007). Sketches also included a pop/rock cover of Neil Young's "Don't Let It Bring You Down." After Sketches Joel explained "It's called Sketches they were raw, often done in one take." Joel designed and illustrated the CD cover, packaging, and inserts that included her handwritten lyrics. Joel self-released and independently distributed the six-song EP Sketches in August 2006. In 2005, at age 19, Joel assembled a band and performed her first live show at Maxwell's in Hoboken, New Jersey, In 2006, Joel played nearly 100 shows, including a Hard Rock Cafe tour completed in May 2006. Joel is known for her melodic song writing, and has noted that her musical upbringing gave her a "unique inside-peek into the songwriting process," and that "It's no wonder I write music in the same way (my father) does: melody first, and lyrics second." Joel said that by the age of 15, she was finishing complete songs with piano accompaniment, and writing poetry. Joel is also referenced in her father's 1989 song " Leningrad" (with lyrics: ".He made my daughter laugh, then we embraced."), in which "He" refers to a Russian man who became a circus clown after being in the Red Army. His 1989 song " The Downeaster Alexa" bears the title of a boat he named after her, but is about the struggles of Long Island fishermen. It is her self-proclaimed favorite song that he has written. Her father, Billy Joel, wrote his 1993 song " Lullabye (Goodnight, My Angel)" for her. She also has two half-sisters on her father's side named Della Rose (born August 12, 2015), and Remy Anne (born October 22, 2017) born to Joel's fourth wife, Alexis. Both are children of her mother, Christie Brinkley. She has a half-brother, Jack Paris Brinkley ( né Taubman, born June 2, 1995) and a half-sister, Sailor Brinkley Cook (born July 1, 1998). Her middle name, Ray, honors the musician Ray Charles with whom her father recorded the song "Baby Grand". She is the daughter of singer-songwriter Billy Joel and his second wife, model Christie Brinkley. Joel was born on December 29, 1985, in Manhattan, New York.
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