Billy Sherwood
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| Background information | |
| Birth name | William Wyman Sherwood |
| Born | March 14, 1965 |
| Origin | Las Vegas, Nevada |
| Genres | Progressive rock |
| Occupation(s) | Musician, Engineer, producer, songwriter, guitarist, composer |
| Instruments | Bass, guitar, keyboards, vocals, drums |
| Years active | 1980–present |
| Labels | Frontiers Records, Cleopatra Records, Cherry Red Records |
| Associated acts | Yes, Conspiracy, Lodgic, Toto, Circa, World Trade, Air Supply, Yoso, Chris Squire, Carmine Appice, Edgar Winter, William Shatner, Nektar, Paul Rodgers, Great White, Steve Lukather, Bobby Kimball, Steve Morse, Rick Wakeman, Dale Bozzio, Asia |
| Website | www |
William Wyman "Billy" Sherwood (born March 14, 1965, Las Vegas, Nevada) is a musician, record producer, and engineer.
He is mostly known for his time as a member of progressive rock band Yes, from 1997 to 2000, including for their albums Open Your Eyes (1997) and The Ladder (1999). After acting as mixing engineer for their albums Heaven & Earth (2014) and Like It Is: Yes at the Bristol Hippodrome, he re-joined Yes in 2015, covering for original bassist Chris Squire who was on hiatus from the band due to health issues shortly before his death on 27 June 2015.
Sherwood comes from a musical family which includes his father Bobby Sherwood, who was an actor, musician, and big band leader, his mother Phyllis, a singer and drummer, and brother Michael, a keyboardist and singer. His godfather is the late Milton Berle. Billy has a wife, Michi.
Sherwood's music career started when he joined a band called Lodgic formed by Michael. Billy played bass and sang, while Michael played keyboards and sang back up. Lodgic also included Guy Allison on keyboards, Jimmy Haun on guitar and Gary Starns on drums. They eventually moved the band to Los Angeles in 1980. After many years of trying to get things together, they recorded their debut album Nomadic Sands, released in 1985.
Lodgic eventually broke up, and Billy Sherwood put together a new band with Guy Allison. They recruited guitarist Bruce Gowdy and drummer Mark T. Williams to form World Trade. They recorded their self-titled debut in 1989, with Sherwood taking on the roles of engineer, mixer, and producer again, along with his band duties as bassist and lead singer.
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