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Billy Crawford - Trackin' MV (Filipino-American Artist)

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Billy Crawford (born Billy Joe Crawford on May 16, 1982) is a Filipino American musician and actor with musical influences from R &B, Pop, and Soul. Billy Crawford became known around Europe and Asia with song titles such as "When You Think About Me", "Never My Love", "Steamy Nights" and "Bright Lights". Billy is also multilingual, being fluent in two Philippine languages, his native Tagalog as well as Cebuano. His second language is American English and he is conversational in European French. Billy has been living in New York City since 1998. Although he has resided in Paris, France for five years and for one year in London, England, he currently resides in Los Angeles, California as of 2007.
Early life: Billy Crawford was born in Manila, Philippines to a Filipina mother named Mayette and an American father named Jack and he has two half-brothers. He attended International Christian Academy ( which also hailed other stars like Rico Yan and Christian Bautista) in the Philippines up unt
il his departure for the US when he was 11 and balanced both his professional acting and academic repretory obligations. Billy was discovered at an early age of 3 years, singing at a bowling alley that his mother visited often. He would become a series regular on an afternoon GMA Network television
show called That's Entertainment under the name Billy Joe. He acted in a few movies, moved to the United States at age 11 years, and started a music career, performing mostly in the United Kingdom and France, as well as in Asia. His pre-career started in Dallas, Texas where he lived and performed hi
s singing and then moved to New York City. During this time he legally changed his name to Billy Crawford, giving an alias name for himself. He went to school in New York City where lots of other famous people such as Mandy Moore and Nina Sky attended. In 1996 Billy danced with Michael Jackson on-st
age when he was 14 years old and appeared as one of his backup dancers at the 1995 MTV Video Music Awards. He previously dated Mandy Moore for about several months (a year almost) when he was 15 and she was 14. Music career: He had major chart success in France and other parts of Europe, but did n
ot repeat this success in the United Kingdom and the United States, although his single "You Didn't Expect That" did make the lower reaches of the UK Top 40, peaking at number 35. He also contributed a remix of the Pokémon animé theme song for Pokémon: The First Movie in the series. Billy has als
o appeared at a popular Filipino American event called "Fiesta Filipina" in 2001 held in San Francisco, California and American people have become more aware of his name. Billy's latest album "Big City" was released in 2004 in France and Asia only. The single "Bright Lights" was unable to break int
o the any Top 10 charts. The second single "Steamy Nights", fared better making Top 40, and was featured on 7 compilations across Europe and was the first single in Germany. Billy's music video for "Steamy Nights" was shot in Los Angeles, California and was produced with the same people who worked o
n the Destiny's Child single "Lose My Breath". Actress Jenna Dewan who was one of the main characters in the popular 2006 movie Step Up was featured as one of Billy's main dance partners. Another song from the album Candy Store was leaked from the album and received airplay on London radio. Thought
to be a duet with Ginuwine, it is featured on the Big City album. After doing the first ever online reality show "the MSN Dance Show", his third single from Big City "3 Wishes" got cancelled by his label. Billy felt it was time for something new and decided not to re-sign his contract with V2 recor
ds. Right now he's writing and producing songs for other artists. In 2006, Billy began recording a new album which was expected to be released in 2007. In 2006, he toured over the summer with the L5 in France and in November he was scheduled to return to his home country to shoot a film. In 2007,
he came back to the Philippines for a new dance reality show M.O.V.E for GMA Network. This show is a reality search for Billy's back-up dancers. He is also guesting on different shows of local TV in the Philippines. His 2007 concert in the Philippines was arranged for August but has now been moved t
o October. He is planning to make his own music production company called YPMP Productions, the abbreviation YPMP stands for "Yea Pimp". OFFICIAL WEBSITE: http://www.billycrawford.org/community/ DISCLAIMER: I own nothing. No copyright infringement intended.

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