AUSTRALIAN BLUES SINGER & SAXOPHONIST, GUITARIST & COMPOSER BILLY NEAL TOURS REGULARLY WORLDWIDEAND HAS RECORDED AND PERFORMED WITH MANY TOP ARTISTS INCLUDING : NIGEL KENNEDY, SIR TIM SMIT, JAREK SMIETANA, WOJTEK KAROLAC, KAREN EDWARDS, KRZYSZTOF SCIERANSKI, ADAM CZERWINSKI AND LEZ KARSKI. HE IS CURRENTLY WORKING ON HIS FITH ALBUM WHILST SPENDING A YEAR BASED IN KRAKOW POLAND. HE HAS JUST RELEASED”TO CRITICAL ACLAIM (NOV 2021) A SINGLE “CHICAGO IN THE FALL”A DUET WITH HIS DAUGHTER LETITIA (18) WHICH HE COMPOSED FOR THE 20TH CHICAGO ALL SOULS ZADUSKI FESTIVAL. “I ASKED MY DAUGHTER TO DEMO THE FEMALE VOCAL TO SEND TO CHICAGO TO CAROLINE BARAN FOR THE UPCOMING PERFORMANCE OF IT IN CHICAGO. I WAS KNOCKED OVER BY LETITIAS VOICE AND IMMEDIATELY SET ABOUT RECORDING A FATHER DAUGHTER RECORDING OF IT UPON MY RETURN. ITS UNDESCRIBABLE, THE EMOTIONAL FEELING YOU GET TO SING WITH YOUR DAUGHTER AND HAVE A RECORDED SONG YOU WROTE LEFT ON THE PLANET FOREVER, IT WOULD BE COMPLETE IF ONLY FRANK (SINATRA) WERE ALIVE TO DO A VERSION OF THE SONG TO !”
AS A BOY HE WAS A MUSIC SCHOLAR AND TOURED WITH THE ROYAL ENGLISH OPERA COMPANY AS LEAD TREBLE FOR TWO YEARS, PERFORMING MANY SHOWS INCLUDING COVENT GARDEN OPERA HOUSE, SADLERS WELLS AND IN A MOVIE WITH SOPHIA LOREN & RICHARD BURTON.
AS A YOUNG MAN HE FRONTED THE “RHYTHM MACHINE” AND PERFORMED AT TOP VENUES INCLUDING THE LONDON SAVOY, ROOF GARDENS, HURLINGHAM CLUB & CAFE ROYAL AND CUT VARIOUS RECORDS AND TOURED EUROPE INCLUDING FRANCE, SPAIN, GERMANY POLAND AND FINLAND.
HE PLAYED FOR LADY DIANA AT CHELSEA BARRACKS AND TWICE FOR PRINCESS ANNE AND WAS PRODUCED AND MANAGED BY SIR TIM SMIT.
HE CURRENTLY WRITES AND PRODUCES A VARIETY OF SONG GENRES IN HIS STUDIO FROM ROCK TO POP, BLUES TO JAZZ & PRODUCES AND RECORDS AND COMPOSES FOR OTHER ARTISTS AND HAS OVER 40 REGISTERED COMPOSITIONS.
HE RELEASED THREE CD’s WITH THE LATE POLISH LEGEND JAREK SMIETANA , THE LAST BEING “I BELIEVE” A COLLECTION OF NEAL/WILKINSON COMPOSITIONS.
PREVIOUS CDS ARE THE ORIGINAL “KEEP A LIGHT ON” 2016, & “I LOVE THE BLUES” 2011 & “LIVE AT IMPART” 2012
Nigel Kennedy: “What a voice, man!”
Sir Tim Smit: “Bill is one of the finest natural musicians and singers I have ever met and had the pleasure to play with. A man of prodigious talent, roaring with life and fire and a man who when he walks into the room or out on stage makes the place feel full of warmth. Catch him when you can as I guarantee you will not be disappointed.”