Billy Porter is a Tony Award-winning vocalist who has released multiple solo
albums while maintaining a successful career in musical theater. He was born as
"William Ellis Porter II" on September 21, 1969, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
After graduating from Carnegie Mellon, he moved to Los Angeles and appeared on
the television show Star Search, which effectively launched his professional
career in 1992. By the mid-1990s, he'd returned to the east coast and landed
multiple on roles on Broadway, appearing in Grease, Songs for a New World,
Smokey Joe's Cafe, and Miss Saigon by the e...