Billy Crawford

Billy Crawford

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Billy
Crawford Born on May 16, 1982, Billy Crawford is made locate at the 3 years age
whereas it dances in a bowling in the Philippines, its country of birth.
It plays then in more than one ten films in the Philippines, gains over there the
equivalent of a Oscar, and presents its own emission of tele as of the 5 years
age before arriving at Texas around its 12 years when it is made locate in a
contest of young talents. It dances then at the sides of Michael Jackson before
only recording in 1998 its first album at 15 years! True child of the ball,
Billy Crawford is a singer and a dancer out-par, unchaining crowd with each one
of his appearances, as during his rounds at the sides of ' N Sync or 98°. He is
besides selected to interpret the original band of first film of Pokemon.
Wrinkle, its second album whose Trackin' is the first individual one, allows to
discover its new universe: "This disc is with my image" declares
Billy. The young person producer-type-setter-interprets made to call in Tony
Maserati for mixer the majority of the titles of the album. It worked with Soul
Shock and Karlin for the funky That' S The Way Love Is, with its collaborators
of long date Eve Nelson and Bernadette O-Reilly for the Ride title or with
Bilal, Falonte Moore (of Koffee Brown) and Rob Fusari (Wild Wild West) for
Serious. Since its first opus, Urgently In Coils, left in 1998, it did not
cease improving, which enabled him to be implied more in the realization of
Wrinkle, that it partly composed and produced. Riper and more tested, it
carried out an album corresponding perfectly to its aspirations. "I wanted
that this disc is at the same time soul and pop", Billy Crawford declares
which quotes Al Green, Marvin Gaye and Stevie Wonder among its preferred
artists, before specifying: "But I do not seek to resemble anybody."

For its entry in the musical arena, Billy
Crawford built a paperboard of which certain experienced artists dream: with
its first individual "Trackin'" left in 2001, this boy born in the
Philippines and raised in the USA devastated the charts (more than 500.000
sales only in France and of the numbers one in all Europe) and imposed his
personality on a young public which in made a high-speed motorboat. Those which
know the lower parts of the music biz know that this success is all except an
accident: actor and singer since the 5 years age, Billy was predestined with an
artistic career, and this hit was in fact the first result d¹une life dedicated
to the scene and entertainment. With "Trackin'", general public of
the whole world discovered a singer except par, large dancer and keen worker
whose model remains Michael Jackson. In 2002, the Ride album, on which
"Trackin'" is included, confirms the talent of Billy with individual
"When You Think About Me" and "You Didn' T Expect That".
The album is quickly certified platinum (and will reach with final the 500 000
specimens), several hundreds of thousands of individual are past. Already the
routine for Billy, which changed meanwhile cut (finished the long hair of the
poster servant boy gentillet) and thinks of its musical growth. "I have
some enough that people think that I am a good chap", explains Billy with
its usual frankness Now ", it is time to launch me in something of
different" It is the beginning of the building site Big City, a third
album in form of free or double "I sang an about sixty pieces for this
album, with authors who worked for Usher, Whitney Houston, Tyrese, Britney and
Metallica. At the beginning of the sessions, I did not know what I wanted.
There is right summer in studio to pose tracks to see what that gave. I spent
three months to Atlanta, three in New York, London.
I wanted that people see Big City like an adult album " However, Billy is not
a clone: no Neptunes here ("My name is
Billy, not Justin! "), but of the craftsmen of the sound with which Billy
created a bond, a history. That it acts of old knowledge like the killers of
Redzone (the gang of Christopher "Tricky" Stewart which worked on
Beyoncé, Chaka Khan and TLC) or of new friends like the Kovas little genius and
the producer platinized Desmond Child (Aerosmith, Bon Jovi, Ricky Martin, Sakis
Rouvas), Billy functions with the feeling, passing the days in studio,
polishing its musical creations with the rage of a star which however estimates
to have very to prove "With Desmond, one folded 7 songs in 6 days in its
studio of Miami. There are 3 titles with him on Big City
of which "Magazine", that I wrote and that it appreciated! To obtain
the respect of a producer of its breadth was a great honor. It is a
perfectionist nutcase, I adore it. And then in studio, I am an easy boy: in Atlanta, I even made 3
songs in 3 different studios in only one day! It is large taf, but I adore that
" While the media are still with gloser on the stories of love and the
private life of Billy Crawford, the teenager of "Trackin'"
metamorphoses himself as an adult. And takes risks "I recorded not badly
bubble pop gum, I did it because that corresponded to a stage of my career. And
then each disc is a risk, and there I wanted to make a different album. An
album which resembles to me, that I assume at 100%. I sing there adult lyrics,
rougher. It is my project, it is that which is important for me ",
concluded Billy." And I hope that truths fans will include/understand
that. I remain natural, I am an artist and I concentrate on the creative side
of the music " For all those which saw in Billy the ideal son-in-law, Big City
will be a great shock. But those which know the potential of this complete
artist know that this ambitious album is only the beginning of a news saga. At
just 22 years, Billy reappears. Welcome in Big City. The album of a singer,
author, dancer, actor and type-setter which is 3 years old of tubes to the
meter and the life in front of him. The album of large. The third album of
Billy Crawford.