Billi Novik

Billy Novik (born Vadim Valeryevich Novik, Russian: Вадим Валерьевич Новик; October 30, 1975) is a St. Petersburg-based musician, one of the Billy's Band founders, and the author of the music and lyrics for most of this group's songs. He plays double bass, piano, drums, harmonica, banjo, bass guitar, and guitar.

The well-known American singer and actor Tom Waits made a significant influence on the Billy's music and performs, as well as on his stage image of a kind of loser in a secondhand "pork pie" hat, with his raspy vocals and a mixture of singing and spoken word.