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Billy Rivera

About Me

Billy spent his formative years locking chords composed by Mendolsohn, Handel, Mozart, Lauridsen in the halls of Hamilton Academy of Music. While his influences are wide-ranging - from folk to shoe gaze to electronic to alt. country to noise to hip hop - his musical alter always has a female muse as its centerpiece. Billy's art, whatever form it may take (music, film, photography), has a "camp" sensibility, but goes beyond into more challenging territory. If you wrote the greatest love song in the world, used dirty homonyms in the lyrics and mixed singer-songwriter acoustics with home made beats, you might know how Billy's ticker sounds.

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 07/05/2008
Band Members: Billy Rivera & Bernie Larsen
Influences: LADIES: Elizabeth Fraser, Nicola Hitchcock, Ane Brun, Santigold, Alice Smith, Jen h.ka, Beth Hirsch, Cortney Tidwell, Jewel, Lisa Gerrard, Karin Dreijer-Andersson, Karin Peris, Rachelle Ferrell, Amel Larrieux, Mamak Khadem, Paula Cole, Kazu Makino, Bjork, Mathilde, Caren Carpenter, Mara Carlyle, Aimee Mann, Alison Statton, Basia, Aaliyah, Missy Elliot,GENTS: Robin Guthrie, Simon Raymonde, Brendan Perry, Jeff Buckley, Jim Morrison, Bob Marley, Bernie Larsen, Wayne Coyne, Olof Dreijer,
Sounds Like: psychedelic campfire ditties DID UP with slick, sparkling, studio things.
Record Label: Sign Me
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

Debut Release 21 GRIEF STREET EP Almost Here!!!

More details to come soon... Track Listing:1. You and I2. Cold Corner (feat. Beth Hirsch)3. I'm Still Here4. Rain & Sun5. Tuesday NightProduced by Bernie Larsen at his studio in Burbank, CA.
Posted by on Fri, 24 Jul 2009 16:17:00 GMT