Billy D William

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Saxophone, Piano, Lead Guitar, Keyboard, Flute, Drums, Bass Guitar, Background Singer.

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I sing in a 9 piece jazz/funk/breakbeat group called Fake Flowers Real Dirt (www.fakeflowersrealdirt.com). We are currently looking to add a trumpet player to our horn section. We are young, professional and very driven. We are currently working on our first album so it would be a great time for you to enter the project. We do play some free gigs, however we do expect this to be a paying situation. If your interested, please contact me at management (at) fakeflowersrealdirt.com or nappydreadz(at)

Here is my personal site
www.billydwilliam.com
Reggae, Dub, DnB, Rock, Punk, Breakbeat, Go Go, Acid Jazz, Trip Hop, Ska, Funk, Roots, Neo-Soul, Down Tempo.

Billy D. William (born William A. Martin Jr.) is a self taught singer, songwriter, producer, musician from Baltimore, MD. Although he is strongly influenced by Funk, Jazz, Reggae, Hip-Hop, Latin and Afrobeat his first love was actually Gospel. His personal musical style often creates a hybrid of many of these genera's. In addition to his soulful singing voice, Billy also plays the guitar, harmonica & dejembe.

In 2005, under Stay Humble Music, he released his first full length LP "Lessons" as a member of The Big Hurt. That album currently has sales in Australia, Japan, Canada, Poland, Germany, The US and The UK. In July of 2011, he released his second album "Superheavy" along with his band mates in the 8 ohms Band. That record also had sales in the US and overseas. His current musical venture Fake Flowers Real Dirt is a mix of generas from Funk, Soul and Free-Form Jazz to Breakbeat, Jungle and Drum n' Bass. The band is currently in the studio working their first album.

Billy has shared the stage with national artists such as G. Love & Special Sauce, Toot's and the Maytals, Long Beach Shortbus (Sublime & Long Beach Dub All Stars), Chuck Brown, Jimmie's Chicken Shack, Orgone, Days of the New, Marky Ramone, L.A. Gunns, Foghat and Kix. He is also a veteran of the 2006 HFStival playing on the bill along side Cypress Hill, Kanye West, Matisyahu, Rise Against, Panic! at The Disco and The Misfits.

Influences

Disco Biscuits, Thievery Corp, SOJA, Lupe Fiasco, Fela Kuti, Incubus, 311, Sublime/Long Beach, Soul Coughing, Jamiroquai, Bob Marley, Mars Volta/At The Drive In/Sparta, Lake Trout/Big in Japan, Nirvana, Wyclef, P-Funk, The Roots, G-Love, Rare Essence, Grateful Dead, Oasis, Faith No More/Mr. Bungle, Pink Floyd, Bob Dylan, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Mother Tongue, Marvin Gaye, Circa Survive, Taking Back Sunday, Alkaline Trio, Taproot, Helmet, Radiohead, Tribe Called Quest, Biggie Smalls, De La Soul, LL Cool J, Portishead, Chuck Brown, Dave Mathews Band, Jimmy Cliff, Weezer, Junkyard Band, James Brown, Barrington Levy, The Killers, Coheed and Cambria, Infectious Grooves, System of a Down, Fishbone, Green Day, King Crimson, The Used, Puya, Stone Temple Pilots, Peter Tosh, Led Zeppelin, Snot, Refused, The Vines, Fugazi, Phish, Jurrasic 5, Blind Mellon, Deftones, Al Greene, Nofx, Herbie Hancock, Operation Ivy, Finley Queay, The English Beat, Moe, Primus, Smashing Pumpkins, Afghan Whigs, Twilight Singers, Bela Fleck, Living Colour, Our Lady Peace, The Police, Toots and the Maytals, Israel Vibrations, Miles Davis, Bad Brains & Widespread Panic.

Equipment List

I have everything!