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Billie Ray Martin
@billie-ray-martin.bsky.social
www.billieraymartin.com
A girl from the red light district of Hamburg who wanted to be a soul singer.
Once a month I go back to my home: Hamburg. Everything I hear and see is magical to me. I film,take photos. In my soul I hear the songs from my coming albums that go with the picture I've just found. I've arrived somewhere where nothing else matters but this moment and the world I have inside of me
August 16, 2025 at 2:40 PM
I can't get this outa my head for some reason today. Neil Diamond, what a songwriter billieraymartin.bandcamp.com/track/i-am-i...
I Am... I Said, by Billie Ray Martin
from the album Two unreleased recordings ('Aria' and 'I am, I said')
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August 16, 2025 at 2:38 PM
Happy Birthday to the incredible, trailblazing legend Jayne County whom I've had the pleasure of hanging out with many times.
July 14, 2025 at 6:55 AM
With Arthur Baker tonight for his book launch in Berlin. I am in the book too 🙂 pic is from his archive
July 4, 2025 at 7:49 PM
Last weekend in the Economist. Absolutely chuffed. The article is called: Best 6 lost albums.
July 2, 2025 at 2:44 PM
I'm in a 'no wire hangers' mood today. Tread carefully 😉
June 25, 2025 at 11:37 AM
June 1, 2025 at 9:27 AM
Bowie came to mind this morning and my humble attempt at one of his most beautiful songs billieraymartin.bandcamp.com/track/after-...
After All (Original Version), by Billie Ray Martin
from the album After All
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June 1, 2025 at 9:26 AM
Recorded some more strings for one of the forthcoming albums.
May 11, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Wow you can't post a video here? lame.
May 8, 2025 at 1:17 PM
A wonderful producer told me today that the vocals on one of my new albums were 'chef's kiss'. Love that expression and it made my morning.
May 8, 2025 at 1:17 PM
When The Twilight Zone Imagined Fascism in America in a 1963 Episode Starring Dennis Hopper www.openculture.com/2025/03/when...
When The Twilight Zone Imagined Fascism in America in a 1963 Episode Starring Dennis Hopper
Watch through The Twilight Zone, and you'll find yourself spotting no end of familiar faces: Julie Newmar, Burt Reynolds, Robert Redford, Elizabeth Montgomery, William Shatner, even Buster Keaton.
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March 30, 2025 at 8:57 AM
The streaming quality on Spotify is as low as it gets. I had wondered whether all songs have really dull mixes these days, so I compared on bandcamp. It's just Spotify sounding like utter crappola.
March 29, 2025 at 10:56 AM
I spent the last couple of weeks in the studio mixing, repairing botched mixes, trying ideas, adding some more strings etc. I can report happily that I am making progress. It's lifted my mood, I feel I'm moving forward and I'm having a lot of fun. Bit of a way yet too go but strolling on and on....
March 29, 2025 at 10:55 AM
Twitter is down :)
March 10, 2025 at 3:38 PM
Not many people know this but this is the actor and character I wrote 'You're walking' about. To me he could resemble a (harmless) peeping Tom who walks around Hamburg's red light district. This is how I imagined my character to look and I wrote the song lyric after watching the movie.
March 8, 2025 at 2:20 PM
chuffed
March 6, 2025 at 7:15 PM