Who Is Billie Holiday

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Lady Day

 

Born April 7, 1915, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Died July 17, 1959, New York, New York

Billie Holiday was born Eleanora Fagan and is perhaps the best known female jazz singer off all time.

Billie Holiday Performs Strange Fruit 

Billie Holiday - Strange Fruit

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Billie Holiday - God Bless The Child, Framed Memorabelia 

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Billie Holiday Biography 

Billie Holiday (born Eleanora Fagan; April 7, 1915 ? July 17, 1959) was an American jazz singer and songwriter.

Nicknamed Lady Day(see "Jazz royalty" regarding similar nicknames) by her sometime collaborator Lester Young, Holiday was a seminal influence on jazz and pop singing. Her vocal style ? strongly inspired by instrumentalists ? pioneered a new way of manipulating wording and tempo, and also popularized a more personal and intimate approach to singing.

Critic John Bush wrote that she "changed the art of American pop vocals forever."allmusic ((( Billie Holiday > Biogra...

Billie Holiday Trivia 


  • At the time of her birth, her mother, Sadie Fagan (born Sarah Harris), was just 13. Her father, Clarence Holiday, was 15. It's not clear if they were ever married.


  • In 1959, narcotic addiction was a crime, not an illness. She was arrested on her deathbed.


  • Billie died with 70 cents in the bank and $750 strapped to her leg -- a reminder of her life-long fear of poverty.

Billie Holiday and Louis Armstrong 

Billie Holiday - The Blues Are Brewin'

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Billie Holiday - Lover Man, Framed Art Piece 

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Billie Holiday CD's from Amazon 

Rare Live Recordings, 1934-1959

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Lady Day: The Master Takes and Singles

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Lady Day: The Best of Billie Holiday

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20th Century Masters - The Millennium Collection: The Best of Billie Holiday

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Billie Holiday: The Complete Decca Recordings

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Billie Holiday and Count Bassie Perform God Bless The Child 

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billie holiday & count basie - god bless the child, now baby or never - 1952

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Books on Billie Holiday 

Lady Sings the Blues the 50th Anniversary Edition (Harlem Moon Classics)

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Strange Fruit: The Biography of a Song

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Lady Day: The Many Faces of Billie Holiday

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Billie Holiday: Wishing on the Moon

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If You Can't Be Free, Be a Mystery: In Search of Billie Holiday

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Billie Holiday Giclee Print 

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Billie Holiday Discography 

Buy at Art.comA Fine Romance
A Foggy Day
A Sailboat in the Moonlight
A Sunbonnet Blue
Ain't Misbehavin'
Ain't Nobody's Business If I Do
All of Me
All of You
All or Nothing at All
All the Way
Always
Am I Blue?
Any Old Time
April in My Heart
April in Paris
As Time Goes By
Autumn in New York
Baby Get Lost
Baby, I Don't Cry over You
Baby, Won't You Please Come Home
Back in Your Own Backyard
Be Fair With Me Baby
Big Stuff
Billie's Blues (I Love My Man)
Blue Moon
Blue Turning Grey Over You
Body and Soul
Born to Love
But Beautiful
Buy at Art.comBut Not for Me
Can't Help Lovin' Dat Man
Carelessly
Cheek to Cheek
Come Rain or Come Shine
Comes Love
Crazy He Calls Me
Darn That Dream
Day in, Day Out
Deed I Do
Deep Song
Detour Ahead
Did I Remember ?
Do Nothin' Till You Hear From Me
Do You Know What It Means to Miss New Orleans?
Do Your Duty
Don't Explain
Don't Worry 'bout Me
Dream of Life
East of the Sun
Easy Living
Easy to Love
Eeny Meeny Miney Mo
Embraceable You
Everybody's Laughing
Everything Happens for the Best
Everything I Have Is Yours
Falling in Love Again
Buy at Art.comFarewell To Storyville
Fine And Mellow
Foolin' Myself
For All We Know
For Heaven's Sake
Forget If You Can
Gee Baby, Ain't I Good to You
Georgia on My Mind
Getting Some Fun out of Life
Ghost Of A Chance
Ghost of Yesterday
Gimme a Pigfoot And a Bottle Of Beer
Girls Were Made to Take Care Of Boys
Glad To Be Unhappy
Gloomy Sunday
God Bless the Child
Gone with the Wind
Good Morning Heartache
Guess Who
Guilty
Having Myself a Time
He Ain't Got Rhythm
He's Funny That Way
Hello My Darling
Here It Is Tomorrow Again
How Am I to Know
How Could You?
How Deep Is the Ocean?
I Can't Believe That You're In Love
Buy at Art.comI Can't Face the Music
I Can't Get Started
I Can't Give You Anything But Love
I Can't Pretend
I Cover The Waterfront
I Cried for You
I Didn't Know What Time It Was
I Don't Know If I'm Coming or Going
I Don't Want to Cry Anymore
I Get a Kick out of You
I Get Along Without You Very Well
I Gotta Right To Sing the Blues
I Hadn't Anyone Till You
I Hear Music
Buy at Art.comI Must Have That Man
I Only Have Eyes for You
I Thought About You
I Wish I Had You
I Wished on the Moon
I Wonder Where Our Love Has Gone
I'll Be Around
I'll Be Seeing You
I'll Get By
I'll Look Around
I'll Never Be the Same
I'll Never Fail You
I'll Never Smile Again
I'm A Fool To Want You
I'm All for You
I'm Gonna Lock My Heart
I'm in a Low-Down Groove
I'm Painting the Town Red
I'm Pulling Through
I'm Yours
I've Got a Date with a Dream
I've Got My Love to Keep Me Warm
If Dreams Come True
If I Were You
If My Heart Could Only Talk
If the Moon Turns Green
If You Were Mine
Ill Wind
Isn't This a Lovely Day?
It Had to Be You
It's a Sin to Tell a Lie
It's Easy to Blame the Weather
It's Easy To Remember
It's Like Reaching for the Moon
It's Not for Me to Say
It's The Same Old Story
It's Too Hot for Words
Jeepers Creepers
Jim
Just One More Chance
Just One of Those Things
Keeps On A Rainin'
Lady Sings the Blues
Laughing at Life
Let's Call a Heart a Heart
Let's Call the Whole Thing Off
Let's Do It
Let's Dream in the Moonlight
Life Begins When You're in Love
Long Gone Blues
Love for Sale
Love Me or Leave Me
Loveless Love
Lover Come Back To Me
Lover Man
Mandy Is Two
Maybe You'll Be There
Me, Myself and I
Mean to Me
Miss Brown To You
Moanin' Low
Moonglow
Moonlight in Vermont
More Than You Know
My First Impression of You
My Last Affair (This Is)
My Man (Mon Homme)
My Old Flame
My Sweet Hunk of Trash
Nice Work If You Can Get It
Night and Day
No Good Man
No More
No Regrets
Now Or Never
Now They Call It Swing
On the Sentimental Side
On The Sunny Side of The Street
One For My Baby And One More
One Never Knows, Does One?
One, Two, Button Your Shoe
Our Love Is Different
Our Love Is Here to Stay
P.S. I Love You
Pennies from Heaven
Please Don't Talk About Me
Please Keep Me in Your Dreams
Please Tell Me Now
Porgy (I Love You)
Practice Makes Perfect
Prelude to a Kiss
Remember
Riffin' the Scotch
Rocky Mountain Blues
Romance in the Dark
Saddest Tale (aka Big City Blues)
Say It Isn't So
Say It with a Kiss
Says My Heart
Sentimental and Melancholy
Softly
Solitude
Some Other Spring
Somebody's on My Mind
Sometimes I'm Happy
Sophisticated Lady
Speak Low
Spreadin' Rhythm Around
St. Louis Blues
Stars Fell on Alabama
Stormy Blues
Stormy Weather
Strange Fruit
Sugar
Summertime
Sun Showers
Swing, Brother, Swing
Tell Me More and More
Tenderly
That Old Devil Called Love
That's All I Ask of You
That's Life I Guess
The Blues Are Brewin'
The End Of A Love Affair
The Man I Love
The Mood That I'm In
The Moon Looks Down and...
The Very Thought of You
The Way You Look Tonight
Them There Eyes
There Is No Greater Love
There'll Be Some Changes Made
These 'n' That 'n' Those
These Foolish Things
They Can't Take That Away From Me
They Say
Things Are Looking Up
This Is Heaven to Me
This Year's Kisses
Time on My Hands
Too Marvelous For Words
Trav'lin' All Alone
Trav'lin' Light
Twenty-Four Hours a Day
Under a Blue Jungle Moon
Until the Real Thing Comes Along
Violets For Your Furs
We'll Be Together Again
Weep No More
What A Little Moonlight Can Do
What A Night, What a Moon, ...
What Is This Going to Get Us?
What Is This Thing Called Love
What Shall I Say?
What's New?
When a Woman Loves a Man
When It's Sleepy Time Down South
When You're Smiling
When Your Lover Has Gone
Where Is the Sun?
Wherever You Are
Who Loves You?
Who Wants Love?
Why Did I Always Depend on You?
Why Was I Born?
Willow Weep For Me
With Thee I Swing
Without Your Love
Yankee Doodle Never Went To Town
Yesterdays
You Better Go Now
You Can't Be Mine
You Can't Lose A Broken Heart
You Don't Know What Love Is
You Go To My Head
You Gotta Show Me
You Let Me Down
You Showed Me the Way
You Took Advantage of Me
You Turned the Tables on Me
You're A Lucky Guy
You're Gonna See a Lot of Me
You're Just a No Account
You're My Thrill
You're So Desirable
You're Too Lovely to Last
You're Driving Me Crazy
You're My Thrill
Your Mother's Son-In-Law
Yours and Mine
You've Changed

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Ten times thank you, what a woman

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You knocked this one out of the park, great lens. She was such a beautiful singer. I remember my grandpa after a few bottles of wine and he'd blast Billie on the high-fi and tell us stories about jazz. The memories. Thanks. jesse

Posted March 20, 2008

chloecavanaugh

Such a sad story, such a gifted voice, such a heartbreaking end.
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Chloe

Posted February 29, 2008

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Billie Holiday on Flickr 

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