Billy Stritch (born February 12, 1962, in Houston, Texas) is an American composer, arranger, vocalist, and jazz pianist. For many years, he was best known as a "confidant", music director, and piano player for Liza Minnelli. Stritch was born on February 12, 1962, in Houston, Texas, and raised in Sugar Land, Texas. At the age of 8 or 9, he heard big band music for the first time, and went to the large suburban John Foster Dulles High School (Class of 1979) of Sugar Land, TX that had a "great" music education program, in which he played in the "jazz band". He played in a jazz vocal trio while at college that played jazz festivals for nine years. The trio broke up and Stritch moved to New York City. He attended Dulles High School and the University of Houston. Stritch met singer Marilyn Maye circa 1980, while she was playing a club in Houston. Since then, he has worked as her frequent accompanist and music director. Stritch recorded his first album in 1992, the self-styled jazz LP, Billy Stritch. Stritch and Sandy Knox composed the 1994 Grammy Award-winning country song, "Does He Love You," which was recorded by Reba McEntire and Linda Davis. The song, about a love triangle, follows a common trope. It peaked as a number one Country music hit in both Canada and the United States, and ended 1993 as the 52nd biggest hit in Canada, and in the top 40 in the United States.