After finishing high school, he attended the FAAM music college in his native Brazil, in pursuit of a classical composition degree. A few years later, He attended the Musicians Institute in Hollywood, California and has been mentioned among the success stories on their website several times.
Born and raised in São Paulo Paulo, Brazil, he moved to the United States in 2005 in order to join the power metal band Cellador, playing on their debut album Enter Deception and remaining in their line-up until early 2008. He has since gone on to perform and record with several bands, including Circle II Circle, Nightrage and Power Quest and currently, he is the lead guitarist in Jon Oliva"s Pain and touring guitarist for the Transport-Siberian Orchestra. Hudson started playing guitar at the age of twelve.
He was mainly influenced by Slash.
His first work of note was for a studio project called The Supremacy. The project featured well-known European musicians, such as drummer Mark Cross (ex-Firewind and ex-Helloween), as well as keyboard player Joost Van den Broek, of After Forever, Ayreon, Star One, among others
This project has not done much other than the recording of two songs in 2004. However, his "big" break did not come until later that year, when he auditioned for and joined the American power metal band Cellador, on Metal Blade Records.
In the July 2007 issue of Guitar World magazine, he was the featured artist in the Betcha Can"t Play This section.
In January, 2008 Hudson announced his departure from Cellador. In June, 2008 in a press release from United Kingdom based melodic power metal band Power Quest announced that Bill Hudson had joined as co-lead guitarist alongside Andrea Martongelli. Bill had to leave the band ten months later, with band member Steve Williams citing Bill"s current location and costs as practical problems for the band.
After leaving Power Quest, Hudson joined Circle II Circle.
They toured Europe and the United States between 2008 and 2009. Hudson left the band in 2009 and returned in 2012.
His tenure has since included a performance at the 2012 edition of the Wacken Open Air festival in Germany, which produced a live album, released in 2013. 2014: Hudson joins Jon Oliva"s Pain as their new lead guitarist.
The group headlines the 2014 edition of the ProgPower United States of America festival, playing the Savatage album, "Streets" in its entirety.
Soon after announces his recruitment into the Transport-Siberian Orchestra, replacing the departing Joel Hoekstra. Bill Hudson uses and endorses Education Support Professionals Guitars, Kemper amps, Seymour Duncan Pickups, Cleartone strings and InTune Guitar Picks.
2015: Performs at the Wacken Open Air Festival in Germany as a member of Savatage.
