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.