Tune in on August 7th to see William's performance on the Dr. Phil show! Check local listings for showtime in your area.

Hello Josephans!

I just wanted to let you know I am still alive and well. It's been a crazy last couple of weeks in Phoenix while I've been moving in to my new house...in the middle of the summer...while it's been 115 degrees out. I've always had great timing, right? I am feeling a little extra official today, though. Billboard.com has done a feature on me, which you can check out below. I have a lot of exciting things coming up, which I promise to keep you posted on. In the meantime, tell me what you think of the article, and the new album, in my Forum and on my myspace page. In fact, you can leave me a VOICEMAIL on my myspace page, which I think is just about the coolest thing ever, and I promise I will listen to every last message you leave me (and maybe even leave some of my own!).

Always,
William

When you mix 14 years of classical piano training with practical experience -- playing piano in malls at Christmas, playing the organ at Phoenix Coyotes hockey games -- you get to be William Joseph, instrumental composer/performer and Billboard chart debutante.

Piano lessons commenced for Joseph after he banged out the theme from "Fraggle Rock" on a toy piano after watching the show as a child. He studied Chopin and Rachmaninoff with a Russian piano master until his late teens, when he got a job playing organ for his local National Hockey League team. He wrote their theme song, took a break from playing to do a church mission in Australia for a couple of years, and when he returned, he took up mall duty.

"I immediately had to learn how to sell myself," recalls Joseph. He'd set up two chairs by his piano and tell passing shoppers, "'I'm having a one-song concert and I'd love to give you front-row seats.' They would sit down in the middle of the mall and I'd play them a song -- by the time I was finished I'd have a whole mob of people around."