Cass Dillon is a singer-songwriter

Songwriter

A songwriter is an individual who writes both the lyrics and music to a song. Someone who solely writes lyrics may be called a lyricist, and someone who only writes music may be called a composer...

 from Long Island, New York, whose first release is a song written by Billy Joel titled "Christmas in Fallujah".

Career

Dillon's first major release was written by Billy Joel

Billy Joel

William Martin "Billy" Joel is an American musician and pianist, singer-songwriter, and classical composer. Since releasing his first hit song, "Piano Man", in 1973, Joel has become the sixth best-selling recording artist and the third best-selling solo artist in the United States, according to...

 and titled "Christmas in Fallujah

Christmas in Fallujah

"Christmas in Fallujah" is a single written by Billy Joel and performed by Cass Dillon. The single was released on December 4, 2007 exclusively from the iTunes Store and is included on Dillon's album A Good Thing Never Dies...

". Joel wrote the song after receiving many letters from military service members serving in Iraq

Iraq

Iraq ; officially the Republic of Iraq is a country in Western Asia spanning most of the northwestern end of the Zagros mountain range, the eastern part of the Syrian Desert and the northern part of the Arabian Desert....

 but chose not to perform it because he "thought it should be somebody young, about a soldier's age." Dillon came to Joel's attention through his longtime musical director Tommy Byrnes and artist manager Stefano DiBenedetto with whom Dillon had been working. The song was released to the public on iTunes

ITunes

iTunes is a media player computer program, used for playing, downloading, and organizing digital music and video files on desktop computers. It can also manage contents on iPod, iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad....

 on December 4, 2007, the day after being previewed on The Howard Stern Show. Net proceeds from the song will be donated to Homes For Our Troops

Homes For Our Troops

Homes For Our Troops is a non-profit organization that was founded in 2004. It was named Top Rated Charity by the American Institute of Philanthropy. They are strongly committed to helping the men and women who fight for the United States of America. They are geared more toward servicemen and women...

, which builds homes for severely wounded veterans of Iraq and Afghanistan

Afghanistan

Afghanistan , officially the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan, is a landlocked country located in the centre of Asia, forming South Asia, Central Asia and the Middle East. With a population of about 29 million, it has an area of , making it the 42nd most populous and 41st largest nation in the world...

.

As of June 2010, Dillon was in a relationship with Joel's daughter, Alexa Ray Joel

Alexa Ray Joel

Alexa Ray Joel is an American singer, songwriter and pianist. She is the daughter and only child of singer-songwriter Billy Joel and supermodel Christie Brinkley....

. The pair met when Dillon was hired to play guitar on Alexa Ray Joel's upcoming album on which he co-wrote "Say Something" a track on the album with Alexa during the sessions.

As of July 2010, Dillion entered Electric Lady Studios to record his upcoming album with producer Tommy Byrnes and artist manager Stefano DiBenedetto of The Hang Productions Inc.

Cass Dillon is also the singer in Yu-Gi-Oh! 5D's

Yu-Gi-Oh! 5D's

is a Yu-Gi-Oh! series which aired in Japan between April 2, 2008 and March 30, 2011, following the previous series, Yu-Gi-Oh! GX, and was succeeded by Yu-Gi-Oh! Zexal, on April 11, 2011...

Hyper Drive.