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Billy Crawford Profile |
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Birth Date: May 16, 1982
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Birth Place: Manila, Philippines
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Birth Name: Billy Crawford
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Height: 5'10"
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Biography |
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.
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 until 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 his 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-stage 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.
Crawford did not receive significant media attention after
the Big City Tour 2005, mostly being mentioned in a few
magazines for his break-up with Lorie, and found a new
relationship with Maryss (also known as Maryss from Paris),
a dancer he met when she auditioned for the Big City tour.
Recently, Maryss has only called Billy a good friend and
Billy has admitted that he is too busy to find any
relationships at the moment.
He is also close friends with the singers from Black Eyed
Peas, Justin Timberlake as well as *NSYNC, and Matt Pokora a
popular French singer.
Amidst his looming career in the international music scene,
most especially in Europe, he decided to reside in the
Philippines. His stay in the Philippines for his Move TV
show gave Billy friendly connections with many other
Filipino actors and singers such as Rochelle Pangilinan,
Ruffa Mae Quinto, Marian Rivera, Gary Valenciano, Jay-R as
well as with many other famous actors and singers.
Billy is graduating in year 2008 from his Studio Engineering
course at New York University in New York, United States,
and he will plan on getting the diploma.
Crawford is already considered as one of the Sex Symbol of
music world.
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Other Information |
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Billy Joe Crawford |
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since February 20, 2008