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Billy Joel is set to perform at the Grammy Awards 2024 for the first time in 30 years just days after he announced that he will be releasing his first song since 2007.
The 74-year-old music icon has joined the list of performers on music’s biggest night The Recording Academy announced on Wednesday.
He has not performed solo at the annual event since 1994 where he performed The River Of Dreams.
Joel joined Tony Bennett on stage for a performance of New York State Of Mind at the event in 2002.
Billy Joel is set to perform at the Grammy Awards 2024 for the first time in 30 years just days after he announced that he will be releasing his first song since 2007
He has not performed solo at the annual event since 1994 where he performed The River Of Dreams
No doubt he will be performing new single Turn The Lights Back on which is set for release on Friday.
Joel will be joining an impressive list of performers including Dua Lipa, Olivia Rodrigo, Billie Eilish, Burna Boy, Luke Combs, and Travis Scott.
He has a long history on the show as he has been nominated for 23 Grammy Awards and won six of them including top honor Album Of The Year for 52nd Street in 1979.
He also earned Song Of The Year for Just The Way You are that same year then two years later he won Best Rock Vocal Performance – Male for Glass Houses in 1981.
As if that wasn’t already enough, Joel was given the Grammy Legend Award at the 1991 show.
The star — who recently explained why he’s selling his Long Island home — took to social media on Monday to reveal to his 684,000 followers that his first single in 17 years will be released on February 1.
Turn the Lights Back On, which he teased with a few notes on the piano in a short video clip, will follow his 2019 song Christmas in Fallujah and 2007 tune All My Life.
It will be released alongside a lyric video and available on limited-edition 7-inch vinyl.
Joel joined Tony Bennett on stage for a performance of New York State Of Mind at the event in 2002
He has a long history on the show as he has been nominated for 23 Grammy Awards and won six of them including Best Rock Vocal Performance – Male for Glass Houses in 1981 (pictured)
He is seen with Elton John at the event back in February 2000
He wrote in the caption of the post: ‘It’s time to TURN THE LIGHTS BACK ON. Brand new single coming February 1st. Pre-order now at the link in bio!’
Joel penned the track with Arthur Bacon, Wayne Hector and producer Freddy Wexler.
It was teased last year during one of his live shows as he told the audience: ‘We’ve got a little something we’ve been working on you might hear sometime.’
The New York native had previously retired from songwriting aside from his two most recent singles.
He explained to Vulture in 2018, ‘When I stopped writing songs it was time. I couldn’t be as good as I wanted and that was driving me crazy.
‘I was driving my loved ones crazy. I thought, “This is ridiculous.” So I stopped.’
The We Didn’t Start the Fire hitmaker told Billboard in 2007: ‘I’m not ruling out the possibility of writing songs again.
‘I suppose if I had the motivation to write a song, I’m not gonna stop myself from doing it.
Joel took to social media on Monday with a special announcement for his fans, revealing that his new single is coming February 1
The iconic music artist shared with his 684,000 followers that his first single in 17 years will be released next month
Joel’s daughters Della, eight, and Remy, six, sang a rousing rendition of Jingle Bells with their father at Madison Square Garden last month
‘I just haven’t felt the compulsion to write songs in pop form. I guess these days I just think of myself as a composer.’
Billy, who is wrapping up a 10-year Madison Square Garden residency, has been married to equestrian Alexis Roderick since 2015.
They share daughters Della, eight, and Remy, six. He also is dad to 36-year-old daughter Alexa Ray Joel, whom he shares with ex-wife Christie Brinkley.
The Grammy Awards will be hosted by Trevor Noah and are set to air on Sunday, February 4 on CBS with a simultaneous livestream on Paramount+.
