Billie Davies (née Goegebeur, December 10, 1955) is a Belgian-American female jazz drummer and composer best known for her avant-garde jazz and free improvisation playing since the mid-1990s. Davies was mentioned on JazzFuel.com in the article "Iconic Female Drummers", which appeared in October 2022 written by Isabel Marquez. Billie Davies was born in Bruges, Belgium. Mostly growing up on the Belgian Coast, in Western Europe, at the North Sea, between Bruges, Knokke, Blankenberge and Zeebrugge, her grandfather, Maurice Clybouw (1912 Eernegem - 1984 Bruges), who immigrated with his parents to Paris, France, when he was 8, in 1920, and moved back to Belgium, Bruges in 1943, was the first to introduce her to the drums when Billie was about three years old. She has had a love relationship with rhythm and drums ever since. Her mother, Simone Clybouw (born in Rueil-Malmaison 1934), was her biggest influence on a personal and artistic level, and introduced her to Jazz and Classical music before Billie had made her first footstep. It was her mother who sent Billie to music school when she was 7 - which did not work out very well, as Billie started skipping classes - and who introduced her to live jazz and other music performances from when she was a toddler until she was a young teenager, and introduced her to the world of art, entertainers, painters, poets and professors, musicians and chefs. While Billie grew up with music from Louis Armstrong, Billie Holiday, Mahalia Jackson, Nina Simone, Edith Piaf, Frank Sinatra, Django Reinhardt, Ella Fitzgerald, Toots Thielemans, Joe Pass, Oscar Peterson, Benny Goodman, Glenn Miller, Mozart, Ravel, Paganini, Vivaldi and Chopin. More information...
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