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BILLY F. OTIS – STORYTELLER “ON THE RISE”

Some artists are born storytellers. Billy F. Otis is one such artist as he continues to dominate both our AC40 & Top40 charts with his stellar debut hit single “Fantasy Across The Room” (CVB). Who hasn’t  found it hard to get up enough courage to walk up and try to talk to their “Fantasy Across The Room”?  We all have. That’s the beauty of the song and the artistry of Billy F. Otis who started playing music late in life — when he was 40 years old to be exact. His brother-in-law gave him a C harmonica and instructional book for his 40th birthday present. It was on. Billy learned to sing and play the harmonica and within a few years was fronting The Crow Valley Band which was a fixture on the Washington, DC bar and night club circuit. In his mid-fifties Billy started writing songs with local DC guitar ace Mike Ault. Back then Billy didn’t play guitar, but Mike did and he was good. Mike wrote the music and Billy wrote the lyrics and before long they had a guitar case full of songs. As life sometimes does it sends people down different paths. Mike began to focus more on playing guitar for manufacturer Paul Reed Smith in his band the PRS Band and Billy got sober. Now in recovery, Billy had all these songs but no one to play them with, so he did the only thing he knew how to do. He taught himself how to play guitar and began pursuing his dreams as a solo artist, singing and playing the tunes he had written with Mike and others that he had written on his own. “Fantasy Across The Room” is one of those songs. Fast forward to today.  Billy is playing writing and singing music full time and there is nothing he else he wants to do. His greatest ambition is to perform his original music wherever and whenever he can. “It’s my hope that people enjoy this new song half as much as I did in creating it,” says Billy. Apparently, they are. “Fantasy Across The Room” is on fire, lighting up radio stations across the nation.  Stay tuned, Billy F. Otis has more stories to tell.