the singer Billy Joel will be honored at Parliament

A writer who won singer-songwriter, Billy Joel, a Grammy Award, "New York State of Mind," the success of the song such as "Piano Man" will be honored at Gershwin Prize for Popular Kano. Recipient of the sixth of Commendation Award artists for the achievement of a lifetime Joel, 65, in popular music. The award, the name of the brothers responsible for Ira Gershwin and composer George. Story of the counter of "Billy Joel highest category," James · H said. Billington in a statement, the United States Library of Congress,.  There is intimacy in his compositions to create a bridge between the world and the "listener in the speech of hospitalization at the Songwriters Hall of Fame  Lucas Jackson / Reuters       singer, Billy Joel New York. More than 50 years his career,  "Joel to have the one of the artists most popular in the country,. Of the ESTO of songs and albums of the year category of the 1978 Grammy Award for  "you some of his way of" just,. He also won a Grammy Legend Award in 1990 to 1999, was a Hall of Fame includo Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Throughout my career, "The great composer George Gershwin, is inspired personal to me. The determination of the library and is, including me in a composer who has been awarded a milestone for me in the past, "said Joel. Singer of the New Yorker accepted the award in Washington, DC in November, the awards in a series of events. Hal David and duo Burt Bacharach Carole King, Paul Simon, Stevie Wonder, and Paul McCartney, is the winner of the other.