洪比利 Billy Walshaw

Billy Walshaw 洪比利 is a British-Paiwan singer-songwriter, guitarist, and performer based in Taipei, Taiwan. Born to a Yorkshire father and a Paiwan mother from Pingtung in southern Taiwan, he grew up moving between the English countryside and the mountains of Indigenous southern Taiwan — and turned that dislocation into a musical language entirely his own.

Writing and performing in three languages — English, Mandarin, and Paiwan — Billy fuses 1960s British songwriting, folk-blues, punk energy, and Indigenous Taiwanese melody into something that sounds like neither and both at once. He left school at 15 to follow music, and has spent the years since earning his place on Taiwan's independent scene one honest song at a time.

His Paiwan roots run through everything he makes. The land his family lost. The confusion of being mixed-race in Taiwan. Three languages, because one was never enough — English is where he thinks, Mandarin is where he lives, Paiwan is where he comes from.

In 2022 he won the Taiwan Beer Golden Generation competition, becoming the brand's annual spokesperson and composing the campaign's theme song. That same year his track "不只是山和水" — featured on the Indigenous compilation Nasi — won three Global Music Awards including Silver for Best Composition. In 2025 he took both Champion and Best Band Award at Lokah 原音新浪潮, one of Taiwan's most respected Indigenous music showcases. He has performed at festivals across Taiwan. He hosts long-running Open Jam nights at Taipei venues BOBWUNDAYE and Red Room, and has appeared on Indigenous Television Taiwan (TITV) and in BIOS Monthly.

His debut concept album is in the making with release date planed for 2027.

It is a 12-track journey through identity, land, love, loss, and belonging, written in three languages and rooted in Paiwan culture — a signal from the island, searching for the world's frequency.