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Bill Hayes has toured the world with Barbra Streisand, Liza Minnelli, Frank Sinatra, and Audra MacDonald, performing everywhere from Paris to Uruguay to Tokyo.  He recorded 3 albums with Streisand, 6 with Liza, and others with Sinatra, Rufus Wainwright, Brian Stokes Mitchell, the composer Meredith Monk, and Jazz artists Maria Schneider, Gerry Niewood, and Lea DeLaria, to name a few.

He appeared on MTV Unplugged with KORN, and with Spiritualized at Radio City for the live performance of “…We Are Floating In Space.” 

He has also worked with Aretha Franklin, Kenny Rogers, Ray Charles, Marvin Hamlisch, Art Garfunkel and many others. 

Bill has played for over 50 Broadway Show, currently Anything Goes, and has recorded 14 Broadway cast albums, including Jersey Boys and the recent Promises, Promises with Sean Hayes & Kristen Chenowith.

He has also played on many film sound tracks, and appeared on TV shows on 4 continents, including David Letterman, Jimmy Fallon, Today, Good Morning America and many others. 

Bill’s “French Connection”:  Bill has toured France, the US and Canada with Charles Aznavour, and served as Music Coordinator for both “Aznavour - Live on Broadway”  and Michel Legrand’s only Broadway show “Amour.”  With both, he opened the Paris Las Vegas. He is also part of the New York-based French Jazz band Bordeaux Blues.