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For other people of the same name, see William Crawford (disambiguation).Billy Joe Crawford (born May 16, 1982) is a Filipino-American recording artist, singer-songwriter, actor and TV host.Crawford has lived in New York City, USA, and in Paris for five years and for one year in London.
He also lived in Los Angeles in 2007.
In 2008, he went to Manila to host Pinoy Dream Academy Überture.
He was also the host of Miss Earth 2008.
Crawford is multilingual; his first language is Tagalog, his second is English and he is conversational in French.He is currently a talent of ABS-CBN, a Philippine television network, and was seen in Pilipinas Got Talent as one of the two main hosts together with Luis Manzano.Early lifeWilliam Ledesma Crawford was born in Manila, Philippines, to a Filipina mother named Mayette Ledesma and an American father named Jack Crawford.
He has two half-brothers.
Crawford was discovered at an early age of 3 years, singing at a bowling alley that his mother visited often.
He became a series regular on an afternoon GMA Network television show called That's Entertainment under the name Billy Joe.
He attended the International Christian Academy in the Philippines until his departure for the US when he was 11 and balanced both his professional acting and academic repertory obligations.
He acted in a few movies before he moved to the United States where he started a music career, performing mostly in the United Kingdom and France, as well as in Asia.
His pre-career started in Dallas, Texas, USA, where he lived and performed his singing and then moved to New York City.
During this time, he legally changed his name to Billy Crawford.
He first went to Professional Children's School and then to Professional Performing Arts School in New York City with many other famous professional children, such as Lee Thompson Young, Mandy Moore and Nina Sky.
In 1996, he danced with Michael Jackson onstage when he was 14 years old as one of Michael's back-up dancers at the 1995 MTV Video Music Awards.