An Upstate New York music legend is calling it quits after 50 years of performing.

Lou Gramm, the original lead singer of Foreigner, announced in a new interview that he will retire from music at the end of the year.

“This is gonna be it,” Gramm told Seven Mountains Media radio host Lee Richey. “I’ve been putting it off and putting it off. And I still enjoy performing, but when you’ve been doing it for as long as I have, the travel is the worst. It really takes its toll. And that’s a sign that you’re getting old.”

Gramm, 73, said he wants to sleep in his own bed and enjoy himself, spending more time with his family and his muscle cars.

Gramm is currently scheduled to perform on Bret Michaels’ Parti-Gras 2.0 tour this summer, joining the Poison singer, Twisted Sister frontman Dee Snider and The Eagles singer-guitarist Don Felder. He told Richey that if Foreigner gets inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, he’ll also perform “a song or two” with the classic rock band at the ceremony.

“It’s very, very satisfying to be honored like this after years and years of writing, recording, and more time than that, performing,” Gramm said.

Foreigner is nominated for the Rock Hall’s 2024 class. One of the best-selling rock bands of all time with more than 80 million records sold worldwide, it is their first nomination despite being eligible since 2002.

Gramm would be inducted with bandmates Dennis Elliott, Ed Gagliardi, Al Greenwood, Mick Jones, Ian McDonald, and Rick Wills. Jones, 79, is the only active member but has stopped touring with Foreigner.

Gramm and Jones were inducted together in the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2013.

Gramm was born Louis Grammatico in Rochester and currently lives in Webster, N.Y. He graduated from Gates-Chili High School in 1968 and attended Monroe Community College before pursuing a music career. He was the frontman for Rochester-based rock band Black Sheep in 1974 before becoming the original voice of Foreigner hits like “Hot Blooded,” “Cold As Ice,” “Feels Like the First Time,” “I Want to Know What Love Is,” “Waiting for a Girl Like You,” “Urgent” and “Juke Box Hero.”

Though he says he’s done with music after this year, Gramm previously said he was retiring in 2017.

“Maybe I’ll get a part-time job at Wegmans,” he joked to the Democrat & Chronicle at the time.

Gramm officially left Foreigner in 1990 but has continued performing as a solo artist and with a group of local musicians known as The Lou Gramm Band and Lou Gramm All Stars. According to NJ.com, he most recently performed this past Saturday at the Kodak Center at the ROC the VIP benefit for his charity, the Lou Gramm Foundation, which helps support young musicians who want to take the next step in their career.

Foreigner’s music has been featured on TV shows like “Stranger Things,” “The Simpsons” and “Miami Vice”; influenced a long list of artists from Bon Jovi and Melissa Etheridge to Mark Ronson; and still remains popular today. The band, currently on a farewell tour led by singer Kelly Hansen, drew one of the largest crowds in New York State Fair concert history with 38,000 fans in 2022.