Harlem to Hollywood

Billy Vera: Harlem to Hollywood Book Series Hardcover Written by Billy Vera Although he's a showbiz lifer, Billy Vera is cut from a wholly different cloth than his peers If an artist is measured by their devotion to their craft, Harlem to Hollywood may be the purest treatise on the subject ever produced All the better, it's also an astounding story Born into a white, suburban family, Vera fell for black music as a child and started down a winding performer's path that would buoy him the rest of his life In the sixties, Vera paid his bills by songwriting (for other artists) through the day and playing mobbed up clubs at night