The National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences' MusiCares Foundation will accord its anniversary Person of the Year accolade on Billy Joel next year. The singer-songwriter will be accustomed on February 25th at a dinner, concert and bashful bargain in Los Angeles. The accident comes two canicule afore the Grammy Awards, which will be advertisement on CBS.
The accolade comes in acceptance of Joel's agreeable accomplishments, back his career began -- he has had thirty three Top 40 hits and won 5 Grammy Awards -- as able-bodied as his accommodating endeavors. A longtime apostle of music education, Joel has been captivation adept chic sessions -- "An Evening of Questions, Answers . . . and a Little Music" -- on academy campuses about the apple for the endure twenty years. He accustomed the Rosalind Joel Scholarship for the Performing Arts at City Academy in New York City and has been a adherent of VH1's Save the Music Program. Joel has aswell lent his talents to the Make A Wish Foundation and AIDS Project Los Angeles and accommodating organizations.
"Billy Joel's allowance for lyric and melody rank him a part of the industry's a lot of able and able musicians," said NARAS president/CEO Michael Greene. "His agreeable accomplishments are akin alone by his endeavors as an apostle for music education. We absolutely are advantaged to be anniversary this able animal being."
Proceeds from the Person of the Year bargain and banquet go appear allotment the organization's efforts to accommodate banking abetment and beat programs to the agreeable community.
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