Alexa Ray Joel Giving New Performance In New York, Says ‘Music Is In My Blood’

Alexa Ray Joel will be performing in New York at the same time as her father, Billy Joel.

Same city – different venue!

While papa will be playing before sell-out audiences at Madison Square Garden, daughter Alexa is doing a gig in the lounge of The Carlyle hotel on the Upper East Side.

Alexa will be singing in the well known Cafe Carlyle from April 1 until April 12, while father Billy has become an almost permanent fixture in the somewhat larger venue (18,000 seat capacity) where he performs every month.

Alexa Ray Joel, 28, is no stranger to the more intimate venues of New York. In 2011, she had her own residency at the storied Oak Room at The Plaza Hotel.

In 2006, she released and independently distributed the six-song EP “Sketches” and subsequently issued a number of singles, including “Notice Me.” Like her father, Alexa writes all her own material and also plays the piano.

She once revealed to Chorus & Verse, “I definitely believe that music is something that is in my blood, something that I was born to do.” When she was 19, Alexa formed her own band and gave her first live show at Maxwell’s in Hoboken, N.J.

Since then, she has performed at numerous charity events around the country, and even sang “Baby Grand” together with her father at an election fundraiser for Barack Obama in 2008.

Unfortunately, Alexa has not been free of some medication related problems in her personal life following a four year relationship split in 2009.

She told ABC News in an interview that she had a crisis with depression, and the difficulty of “moving out of the shadows of her two megastar parents.” Her mother is supermodel Christie Brinkley.

If you want to catch Alexa Ray Joel at the Carlyle Cafe, ticket prices range from $50 to $110.

Meanwhile, here is Alexa performing one of her father’s hit songs “Just The Way You Are” – the similarity is amazing.