Billy Yeager

Billy Yeager is a singer-songwriter, musician, actor and filmmaker who has written, produced and directed several low-budget independent feature films. Billy Yeager composes all the music for his films, performing all the instruments himself, and he also performs as many of the lead characters. In 1991, he was discovered by Grammy Award Winner Bruce Hornsby, and he has recorded music with many world renowned musicians such as the Inner Circle Band, Ira Sullivan, and Jaco Pastorius. Yeager's life was filmed since he was 8 years old by his aunt Bunny Yeager, and some of the footage was edited into a fictional film called "Jimmy's Story." Jimmy’s Story is a combination of several film genres: documentary film, mockumentary, pseudo-docu, docu-fiction, and cinema verite. The first version of "Jimmy's Story" was completed in 1996. Infused with a sense of purpose as an artist, Yeager decided he wanted to challenge the audience's perception of fame and success, and society's obsession with ...