Billy Straus

Billy Straus
Nationality	American
Occupation	Music producer

Billy Straus is an American music producer and songwriter. He is known for his work in children's television including the Disney series Little Einsteins and Where in the World Is Carmen Sandiego?. He produced and mixed original Broadway cast albums for The Full Monty and Dirty Rotten Scoundrels. He won an Emmy Award for his work on Where in the World Is Carmen Sandiego? He founded Rock River Communications to introduce the concept of non-traditional music distribution into the retail marketplace.

Straus was raised in New York City. While enrolled at Brown University in 1978, Straus started working as a recording engineer, recording live albums and broadcasts for artists such as George Jones, Miles Davis, Grateful Dead and Joni Mitchell. He was a member of the band Redline during the early 1980s and toured with U2 in 1981.

Straus worked as an engineer at The Hit Factory recording studio in Manhattan, working with artists including Bruce Springsteen and Julian Lennon. In 1985 he started The Manhattan Recording Company, where he created The Manhattan Jazz Hour radio series, hosted by New York Times jazz critic, John S. Wilson, and syndicated nationally by American Public Radio. Straus also composed and produced jingles for Miller Brewing Company and Mars, Incorporated. He produced for the a cappella musical group Rockapella in the late 1980s and 1990s including two albums spun off from the PBS television series, Where in the World Is Carmen Sandiego? for which he won an Emmy Award.

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