PAUL, BILLY

PAUL, BILLY (née PAUL WILLIAMS). Rhythm n blues singer (1 December 1934 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania). As a child he sang in his father's church. He began singing in public at the age of eleven on Philadelphia radio station WPEN. By the time he was fourteen he was singing in local nightclubs, occasionally in association with such established performers as Sarah Vaughan, Dinah Washington , and Leslie Uggams (at that time a child star). He obtained his musical education at the West...