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Since his music career began in , he has sold millions of records worldwide and has written or co-written over songs for himself and other artists, collaborating mostly with lyricists Howard "Howie" Greenfield and Phil Cody. After a short-lived tenure as a founding member of the doo-wop group the Tokens , Sedaka achieved a string of hit singles over the late s and early s, including " Oh!

His popularity declined by the mids, but was revived in the mids, solidified by the US Billboard Hot number ones " Laughter in the Rain " and " Bad Blood ". He was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in and continues to perform, mounting mini-concerts on social media during the COVID pandemic. Sedaka was born in Brooklyn , New York.

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He grew up in Brighton Beach. In , he auditioned successfully for a piano scholarship to the Juilliard School of Music 's Preparatory Division for Children, which he attended on Saturdays. His mother had wanted him to become a classical pianist like his contemporary Van Cliburn , and Sedaka continued to show fondness for and capacity to play classical music throughout his life.

At the same time, to his mother's dismay, Sedaka was discovering pop music; his mother eventually acquiesced when Sedaka received a five-figure royalty check for his hit " Calendar Girl " in When Sedaka was 13, a neighbor heard him playing and introduced him to her year-old son, Howard Greenfield , an aspiring poet and lyricist. They became two of the Brill Building 's composers.

Sedaka and Greenfield wrote songs together throughout much of their young lives. Before rock and roll became popular, Sedaka and Greenfield found inspiration from show tunes. When the Beatles and the British Invasion took American music in a different direction, Sedaka was left without a recording career. In the early s, he decided a major change in his life was necessary and moved his family to Britain.

The Linc-Tones, later renamed the Tokens near the end of Sedaka's tenure with the group, went on to have four top hits of their own without Sedaka. His first single for RCA Victor, " The Diary ", was inspired by Connie Francis , one of Sedaka and Greenfield's most important clients, while the three were taking a temporary break during their idea-making for a new song.