Billy Joe Crawford Hunky Pinoy Singer and Actor

Billy Crawford (born William Joe Crawford on May 16, 1982) is a Filipino-American musician and actor with musical influences from R&B, pop, and soul. Crawford became known in Europe and Asia with song titles such as "Trackin'", "When You Think About Me", "Never My Love", "Steamy Nights" and "Bright Lights". Crawford is multilingual, being fluent in two Philippine languages, his native Tagalog as well as Cebuano. His second language is English and he is conversational in French. Crawford not only lived in New York City, USA, but also in Paris for five years and for one year in London. He currently resides in Los Angeles as of 2007. In 2008, he went to Manila to host Pinoy Dream Academy's uberture. He has also hosted the prestigious Miss Earth 2008 held in the Philippines. He is now a talent of ABS-CBN and was seen in Pilipinas Got Talent as one of the two main host together with Luis Manzano.

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 began a new relationship with Marie Courchinoux (also known as Maryss from Paris), a French dancer and member of the Beat Freaks whom he met when she auditioned for the Big City tour. He is now engaged to Nikki Gil. They met while they hosted the second season of Pinoy Dream Academy (PDA). 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 blooming 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 Gary Valenciano, as well as with many other famous actors and singers.

Crawford completed in 2008 his studio engineering course at New York University in New York, United States, and he will plan on getting the diploma.

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