{"id":558027,"date":"2026-04-01T10:35:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-01T10:35:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/558027\/"},"modified":"2026-04-01T10:35:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-01T10:35:08","slug":"the-voice-semi-finalist-lucas-west-from-fairport-gets-callout-from-the-piano-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/558027\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;The Voice&#8217; semi-finalist Lucas West from Fairport gets callout from the Piano Man"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>FAIRPORT, N.Y. \u2014 The Piano Man himself is showing some love for a local singer competing on NBC\u2019s \u201cThe Voice.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Billy Joel posted on Facebook on Tuesday, saying \u201cFrom the Big City to The Voice stage \u2013 Lucas West brings us that New York State of Mind!\u201d That\u2019s the song the Fairport native sang to win his knockout round Monday night.<\/p>\n<p>West posted on social media that Billy Joel is one of his heroes. He said the repost of his performance on The Voice is a dream come true.<\/p>\n<p>Lucas now advances to the top nine in the semifinals in two weeks.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tFor Related Stories:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.whec.com\/tag\/the-voice\/\" rel=\"tag nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Voice<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.whec.com\/tag\/billy-joel\/\" rel=\"tag nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">billy joel<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.whec.com\/tag\/lucas-west\/\" rel=\"tag nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Lucas West<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FAIRPORT, N.Y. \u2014 The Piano Man himself is showing some love for a local singer competing on NBC\u2019s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":558028,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54],"tags":[18153,88,228087,35188,92],"class_list":["post-558027","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-billy-joel","tag-entertainment","tag-lucas-west","tag-the-voice","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/558027","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=558027"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/558027\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/558028"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=558027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=558027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=558027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}