Billy Simpson (singer)

Billy Simpson (born 17 July 1987) is an Indonesian singer-songwriter, musician, producer and multi-instrumentalist. He is the winner of the first season of The Voice Indonesia.

Simpson was born in Jakarta on 17 July 1987 to parents who have neither the interest nor background in music that throughout his childhood years, his exposure to music was thus relatively limited. In fact, the closest exposure to music that he had as a child was obtained from watching Disney movies.

Being encouraged by his sister, Simpson's first ‘official’ encounter with music occurred as he began playing bass at a church at the age of 13. A few years later, he moved to Melbourne, Australia to pursue his collegiate studies. There he started to discover his love of singing through his involvement in various musical events organized by Indonesian students. Apart from his participation in musicals, Simpson also acted in Kado Kendo, a student-initiated movie filmed in Melbourne, Australia in 2007.

After completing his studies in Business and Economics in Melbourne, Simpson returned to Indonesia. He was then asked to join and become one of the lead-vocalists of a band called VoZ for an album called Putus Cinta before the members dispersed and went on their separate ways. He then carried on with his own music career, performing at weddings and a variety of events. Aside from those, Simpson wrote his own music, produce them in his own home-based music studio and create videos based on them. He also ran his home studio as a production house, regularly creating music for other singers, bands and corporations.

In February 2013, Simpson passed the Blind-Audition of The Voice Indonesia which is aired in Indosiar TV. Singing the song One by U2 gave him a 4-chair-turn and he picked Giring Ganesha from the band Nidji as his coach.

In the Battle Rounds, Simpson performed "I Won’t Give Up" by Jason Mraz, competing against Andreas Galih. After seeing the duet performance of both singers onstage, coach Giring finally chose Billy to carry on to the next round of the competition: the Top 24 LIVE show.

At the TOP 24, Simpson presented his own ‘twist’ of "Beautiful", a song originally performed by Cherrybelle, and managed to get to the next stage of the competition.

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