DOUBLE DIAMOND

Bill has been in the music business since 1960 in several bands. The Esquires - Victoria High Schools' first ever Rock & Roll band, the Azrecs, the Noblemen, Pagan Blue, and Festival. He left the B.C. Telephone Company in 1975 to pursue a professional music career and formed the popular trio - BRANDY with drummer Dennis Scherk and keyboardist Greg Schaefer. The group performed at many major B.C. bars lounges, hotels, corporate functions, and private shows for several years until Bill went into a duo act with many female vocalists. In 1986 he landed a yearly "house gig" as a solo entertainer at the Esquimalt Legion for the next 16 years where he learned how to impersonate various star characters. He produced a long running highly entertaining show with three additional impersonators - Guy Price, Bob Wareham and Brian Dorrington. Together they did a weekly show called "The Traveling Wannabes" Together they sang, dressed and acted out 120 various characters and ran for three consecutive years of "extra" entertainment on Wednesday nights. He has impersonated Louis Armstrong, Ray Charles, Little Richard, Garth Brooks, MC events as Phil Donahue. He has even impersonated in full costume ... more...