Billy Prim was born in Larisa , Greece in 1997. He started playing drums at the age of 15. His musical studies include 6 years of classical piano lesson.  Billy finished his basic education in Greece but after all that the music  placed him somewhere else.

He moved to Hungary and there he studied the drums. During and after his studies Billy was joining several  musical projects, recordings and tours with different ensembles of  different  genres of music. Billy keeps going on with his musical journey, improvement, looks forward to new challenges, experiments for a better and newer experience. Moreover, from 2017 he is one of the most active musicians in the Hungarian  jazz scene collaborating and performing internationally at festivals and venues in Europe.

He performed with great musicians like Poszár Máté, Lili Nagy, Flora Tandi, Mark Pusher, Júlia Csillag , Mucsi Gergő ,Tuomas Korhonen, Vassilis Podaras, Yiotis Samaras, Dimitris Papadopoulos, despite of all that he is very proud for his latest collaboration with his mentor  Attila Blaho from Hungary,  Andor Horváth from Holland, Matthew Mitchell  from New  Zealand and Debasish Ganguly from India.

In addition,  he took courses and workshops with master Eric Ineke Colin Stranahan , Sheila Jordan, Diena Schuur, Jonathan Kreisberg and he is been a member of Roots & Routes International 5 years now that he collaborated with popular artists  of  Jazz , Pop, Hip Hop and Contemporary music from all of  the world as Jennie Lena, Patrick Mijnals, Maximien Aldebert , Johannes Da- Costa, Elten  Kiene, Ivan Worlds.

Last but not least, on 20th September 2019 he released his first debut album as a leader entitled ‘Thalassa’  by Blahonoiz Records and it has already attracted international media attention and garnered excellent reviews in 10 countries, including one of the best jazz  magazines  All About jazz, Jazziz.

The “Thalassa” album got also recognition by radio streams on international European jazz radios like: NDR “, Couleurs Jazz Radio, Radio Ara and more.”