1. William Wyman Sherwood was born on March 14,1965 and is an American multi-instrumentalist, songwriter, singer, record producer and mixing engineer.
35 Facts About Billy Sherwood
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Billy Sherwood is best known for his tenures in the English progressive rock band Yes as guitarist and keyboardist in 1994 and from 1997 to 2000 and as bassist since 2015, following the death of original bassist Chris Squire.
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Billy Sherwood is known for working with former and current Yes members on projects.
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Outside of these bands, Billy Sherwood has worked as a producer since the 1990s, most notably on tribute albums dedicated to Pink Floyd, The Beatles, Queen and many others.
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Billy Sherwood is a solo artist, having released ten studio albums to date.
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Billy Sherwood was born on March 14,1965, in Las Vegas, Nevada.
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Billy Sherwood was born into a musical family; his father Bobby Sherwood was an actor, musician, and big band leader and his mother Phyllis is a former singer and drummer.
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Billy Sherwood played bass and sang, while Michael played keyboards and sang back up.
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Billy Sherwood got back together with his bandmates from World Trade and released Euphoria in 1995, with Jay Schellen replacing Williams on drums.
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In 2017, Billy Sherwood reunited with World Trade to record a third album titled Unify, which was released on August 4,2017.
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Billy Sherwood was invited to jam with the remaining Yes members, Squire, guitarist Trevor Rabin, drummer Alan White, and keyboardist Tony Kaye, with the intention of Billy Sherwood on lead vocals.
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Billy Sherwood struck up a friendship with Squire that would lead him to work with him throughout the next 20 years.
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In 1994, Billy Sherwood toured with Yes as additional guitarist and keyboardist on their tour supporting Talk.
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The addition of Igor Khoroshev in 1997 left Billy Sherwood to handle backing guitar and vocals for live shows.
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In 2000, after recording and touring their next album, The Ladder, Billy Sherwood left the group.
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On May 19,2015, it was announced that Squire would be undergoing treatment for acute erythroid leukemia, and that Yes would continue their 2015 North American tour with Billy Sherwood filling Squire's role.
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In 2003, Billy Sherwood released The Unknown, another album with Squire as Conspiracy.
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Billy Sherwood was replaced by Yes tribute band guitarist, Johnny Bruhns.
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In 2012, Billy Sherwood wrote, produced, arranged and performed on The Prog Collective, an album featuring vocal or instrumental contributions from many of the progressive rock artists he had worked with over the years.
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Billy Sherwood reprised the concept with a similar collection of artists for Epilogue, released in 2013.
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On July 8,2016, Billy Sherwood re-grouped with Circa to release their fourth album titled Valley Of The Windmill.
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Billy Sherwood then went on to record a project called The Key with guitarist Marty Walsh, though they would not release the album until 1997.
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Behind the board, Billy Sherwood worked with Motorhead, Dangerous Toys, and Paul Rodgers as producer and engineer.
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Billy Sherwood guested on Toto's Kingdom of Desire album, singing and playing bass.
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Billy Sherwood produced a couple of tribute albums, including Jeffology, a tribute to Jeff Beck.
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Billy Sherwood then joined Yes on tour as an additional musician, playing guitar and keyboards for their tour in support of Talk.
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Billy Sherwood appeared along with William Shatner in the Season 14 premiere of Hell's Kitchen where they met blue team as part of their reward for winning the signature dish challenge.
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Billy Sherwood is credited for writing the theme song for the online anime series, Kung Fu Jimmy Chow.
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On 11 January 2017, Asia announced that Billy Sherwood would be filling in on bass and lead vocals for John Wetton for tour dates in the spring of 2017 while Wetton underwent chemotherapy, having been chosen by Wetton himself.
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In 2019, Asia's line-up changed with Ron "Bumblefoot" Thal joining on guitar and lead vocals and Billy Sherwood remaining on just bass and backing vocals.
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Billy Sherwood said they had completed an album that would be released late 2020 or early 2021.
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In 1999, Billy Sherwood composed his first solo album called The Big Peace in which he played most of the instruments and produced.
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On May 20,2019, it was announced that Billy Sherwood was working on his tenth solo album, titled Citizen: In The Next Life, which was released on July 12,2019.
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Billy Sherwood mainly plays Carvin guitars, 6- and 12-string; his main guitar, which he's played since his first stint in Yes, is a red Carvin, Telecaster-shaped, with a Roland V-guitar pickup.
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Billy Sherwood has played Kubicki, Tobias, Fender and Turner basses in the past.