Billie Davies is an American female jazz drummer and composer best known for her avant garde and avant-garde jazz compositions since the mid-1990s, and her improvisational drumming techniques she has performed in Europe and in the United States.
15 Facts About Billie Davies
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Mostly growing up on the Belgian Coast, in Western Europe, at the North Sea, between Bruges, Knokke, Blankenberge and Zeebrugge, her grandfather, Maurice Clybouw, who immigrated with his parents to Paris, France, when he was 8, in 1920, and moved back to Belgium, Bruges in 1943, was the first to introduce her to the drums when Billie was about three years old.
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Billie Davies has had a love relationship with rhythm and drums ever since.
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At age 12, Billie Davies's first serious stage performance was with a Youth Opera in Sint-Kruis, a rendition of Romeo and Juliet fashioned Billie Davies as Romeo due to her exceptional vocal range and sense of music and theatre.
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Aged 25 Billie Davies started the transition to become a professional musician.
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Billie Davies knew her love of drumming had become her life.
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At a crossroads in her musical career, while living and playing and performing with Claude Mazet in the South of France, Billie Davies ended up receiving a talent grant from Max Roach to come study at Berklee College of Music, this was after he heard one of her tapes she laid down with a bass player in Montpellier, France.
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Billie Davies was however having too much fun in the south of France, living the life of a gypsy jazz musician and therefore decided not to take the offer.
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Summer of 2016 Billie Davies started A Nu Experience with IRIS P on vocals, Evan Oberla on electric piano, synthesizer and trombone, Oliver Watkinson on electric bass and Billie on electronic drums.
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September 2018 she released "Perspectives II" with Billie Davies Trio featuring Iris P, vocals and spoken word, with whom she recorded "On Hollywood Boulevard" and featuring Ari Kohn, woodwinds and Allie Porter, vocals and spoken word.
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Billie Davies is a drummer from Belgium who now lives and works in the Big Easy and this recording, available only in download form, captures a live performance of her trio, plus added guests, creating over an hour of heady, uplifting music.
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Billie Davies is the recipient of the "Jazz Artist" Award for 2013 by the 23rd Annual Los Angeles Music Awards on November 14,2013.
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Billie Davies's music has been receiving attention by jazz reviewers, critics and jazz radio stations since her comeback to the jazz scene in 2011.
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Billie Davies was nominated for "Best Contemporary Jazz Artist" in New Orleans by Best Of The Beat 2017, OffBeat Magazine.
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Billie Davies was nominated for "Best Drummer" in New Orleans by 2019 Best Of The Beat Awards, OffBeat Magazine.