Neil Sedaka (born March 13, 1939 in Brooklyn, New York) is an American Brill Building pop singer, songwriter and pianist. He team by using Howard Greenfield to write many major hit songs for himself & others.

His right-known Billboard Hot 100 hits are,"Oh, Carol" (within information to Carole King) (#9), "Calendar Girl" (#4) and "Happy Birthday Sweet Sixteen" (#6) within 1961, "Breaking Up Is Hard to Do" (#1) (1962), "Laughter in the Rain" (#1, 1975), & "Bad Blood" (#1, as well 1975). He & Greenfield besides wrote "Love Will Keep Us Together", a No. 1 hit for The Captain and Tennille and the best selling record of 1975. A popular recording of a song includes the lyrics "Sedaka is back" in the coda.

Sedaka was innate to the boy of the Turkish Jewish immigrant to Brooklyn and an Ashkenazi Jewish mother. Sedakthe began performing by owning a piano when a youth, & played in a classical music radio station, likewise as researching at Juilliard. He likewise began experimenting sustaining doo wop and rock and roll, playing within an early version of The Tokens. His composition, "Stupid Cupid" was the 1958 success for Connie Francis, and Sedaka signed as a solo performing artist. The string of hits followed, ending around astir 1963.

Sedaka returned to the forefront inside 1973, helping ABBA write the song "Ring Ring" for the Eurovision contest. Late in the 1970s, after he had the comeback two inside recording & songwriting, he began working around England by having Elton John and continued touring for many years fallowing that.

Inside 1976, Sedakthe recorded a recently version of "Breaking Up is Hard to Do," a ballad which sounded super different from either a original version freed inside 1962. It processed #8 on a popular stock and index charts; the original mass produced it to #1. This is an extremely rare event; the sole more case in the rock era of a performing artist charting twice using deuce different versions of the equivalent song is Eric Clapton's Layla. A ballad version following at #1 on the Billboard Adult Contemporary chart.

He was as well a writer of the popular song 'Amarillo' the song he wrote for Britain's Tony Christie, it reached a top Xl in the UK (twice 1971 & 2005 - hitting #1 the 2nd instance thanks to an amusing cd starring Christie, Peter Kay and many more celebrities) and besides reached #1 around Spain and Germany in 1971. Sedaka late recorded a song himself, ingesting it into a Me Hot 100 singles chart.

When of 2005, Sedakthe has been married for forty-both years to his married woman, Lebthe, & it use at times deuce tikes: girl Dara, a recording creative perboy & vocaliser for television & radio commercial message, & son Marc, a film writer world health organization sleep in Los Angeles. Inside 1980, Sedakthe got a Top Ten hit using "Should've Never Let You Go," which he recorded by using Dara. Marc & his married woman, Samantha, come a parents of twwithin girls, Amanda & Charlotte, world health organization were born in 2003 & come Neil Sedaka's 1st grandchildren.

Around 2005, Sedaka continues to perform regularly. He okay, has a star on the Hollywood Hike of Fame & the petition is under way for Sedaka to become inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame.