Billy Ashbaugh was born on Feb twenty-fifth, 1964 in the city of Fredrick, MD. He started playing drums when he was five. By that time he was eighteen, he was playing in the professional manner.
At age twenty-three, he went to Ft. Lauderdale, Florida. After having taken drum lessons from the world famous Ronnie Ciago, it did not take long prior to he turned a professional teacher himself. On this time period, his reputation developed with local gangs, particularly, the team “House Gigs”.
In about 1992, the drummer was employed to play drums for Arista recording creative person Snap. Additionally to traveling for the following two and a half years, Billy as well recorded 2 solo funk-rock record albums for Turbo B (head singer/famous rapper for the gang Snap).
In 1997 he accepted a phone call from former Snap managing director, Johnny Wright, questing he play drums for a fresh team he was controlling addressed as NSYNC. In the summertime of 1999, he came across Neil Giraldo, guitar player / producer / songster for Pat Benatar. Some matters chattered between them, and in Feb of 2000 he taped eight tracks for her fresh record album. Afterwards that year, Bob Gatzen together with Billy came up with a fresh conception for Gatzen’s following video recording in his “Inspiring Drummers” serial publication. The video recording is scheduled to be resigned by Warner Bros. in the springtime of 2001. As a conform up to the video recording’s release, Warner Bros. will as well release soon an “In Session” go along compact disc for drums, having music from NSYNC’s HBO Online Concert Special.
Besides promoting his video recording and play along compact disc, Billy is as well affected with a “Drum-Loop” compact disc projection, as well as showing more tracks for Pat Benatar, and carrying on to go with NSYNC. Billy as well has backed up artists such as Britney Spears as well as Jordan Knight, Samantha Mumba, and entered tracks for Jive Record’s fresh artist, Aaron Carter, blood brother of Nick Carter, one from the band Backstreet Boys.
