Bill Deraime

Bill Deraime is a French blues singer, songwriter, and guitarist whose career took flight during the early '80s and who remained active long thereafter, releasing a long line of albums well into the new millennium. Born Alain Deraime on February 2, 1947, in Senlis, Oise, he become deeply interested in American music as a teenager, particularly the blues, soul, and folk. In 1968 he moved to Paris at the height of the social revolution then overtaking France and adopted a bohemian lifestyle, playing music in the streets, forming an underground folk club, volunteering for social ...