Rosalind Nyman Joel died Sunday on Long Island, said Claire Mercuri, a spokeswoman for the award-winning singer.
Rosalinda's Eyes from Joel's 1978 album 52nd Street was a tribute to his mother, who raised him alone after divorcing his father, Howard Joel, in 1957.
The lyrics include the words: 'I've got music in my hands; The work is hard to find; But that don't get me down; Rosalinda understands.'
Rosalind worked in a clerical capacity for various businesses near her home in Hicksville, Long Island, and supported a number of charities.
Born in Brooklyn to English emigrants, she met her husband in 1942 at a City College musical production and married him three years later. Their son, Billy, was born in 1949. The couple later adopted Judy, the daughter of Rosalind's late sister Muriel.
'I would have been quite happy not to take piano lessons at all. [But] every week, even after [my parents] split up my mother was the one who pushed me to take the piano lessons. I don't know where she got the money from because it was like $10 a pop for a lesson... coming out of, I don't know, $120-$130 bucks a week.
In lieu of flowers, the family requested that donations be made to The Little Shelter animal rescue and adoption center in Huntington, Long Island.
From: the Daily Mail
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