Contreras, Billy
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born on | 17 December 1984 at 09:21 (= 09:21 AM ) | ||||
Place | Saint Joseph, Michigan, 42n07, 86w29 | ||||
Timezone | EST h5w (is standard time) | ||||
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Biography
American award-winning jazz violinist and bluegrass fiddler, multi-instrumentalist, session player and educator.
When he was eight years old, Contreras began studying with legendary Nashville session violinist Buddy Spicher, who taught him about Western Swing and familiarized the precocious young fiddler with jazz standards.
At the age of ten Billy joined Buddy Spicher's Nashville Swing Band, with Contreras and Spicher becoming regulars at Wolfy's in Downtown Nashville.
Source Notes
Sy Scholfield provided birth notice, The Herald-Palladium (Saint Joseph, Michigan), 18 Dec 1984, p. 26.
Categories
- Vocation : Entertainment : Child performer
- Vocation : Entertain/Music : Country-Western
- Vocation : Entertain/Music : Instrumentalist (Violin, mandolin, guitar, piano, bass)
- Vocation : Entertain/Music : Jazz
- Vocation : Entertain/Music : Music teacher
Categories:
- 1984 births
- Birthday 17 December
- Birthplace Saint Joseph, MI (US)
- Sun 25 Sagittarius
- Moon 21 Libra
- Asc 11 Capricorn
- Vocation : Entertainment : Child performer
- Vocation : Entertain/Music : Country-Western
- Vocation : Entertain/Music : Instrumentalist
- Vocation : Entertain/Music : Jazz
- Vocation : Entertain/Music : Music teacher