Billie Holiday was born Eleanora Fagan on April 7, 1915, in Philadelphia, but she was raised in Baltimore.
Billie Holiday was already established inside of New York by the time Lester Young got into Manhattan.
Billie Holiday 's change is often accompanied by accusations of self-destruction, but I myself admire the genius of her later years.
Billie was named after Billie Holiday ,' Sam said.
When Billie Holiday turned 13, Sadie began working at a proper whorehouse called Florence's inside of New York City.
When Billie Holiday arrived, she discovered she was expected to work there as a prostitute.
Billie Holiday was the offspring of a one-night dalliance at a carnival between 16-year-old Clarence Holiday
And so Billie Holiday 's first brushes with the law as a prepubescent child results in her being locked up, even though she
One of Billie Holiday 's first regular gigs was singing in Queens for $18 a week.
It's never Billie Holiday 's early material that's stolen from my collection.
So what happened with Billie Holiday is, she married Louis McKay right before she died, because they
She was a contemporary of Billie Holiday , but she's a little bit less well-known.
This was the world that Billie Holiday was born into in 1915.
This next picture is a photo of Billie Holiday at approximately 16 or 17 years of age.
This is a picture of Billie Holiday 's New York.
And he wrote a beautiful book on Billie Holiday .
and "Two Gardenias for Civil Rights-- Robin Carson's Portrait of Billie Holiday ."
At Alice Dean's, Billie Holiday heard Bessie Smith, the Empress of the blues.
I only can impress upon you in words that Billie Holiday , a very young teenager, was transported across state lines
Shortly after, Billie Holiday began playing with the Count Basie Band, which is one of my favorite bands.
it was also another contest between Ella Fitzgerald and Billie Holiday .
But unfortunately, Billie Holiday quit Count Basie's band-- or was fired for not wanting to sing blues tunes-- and she joined Artie Shaw's band.
All in all, Billie Holiday 's life spanned 30 years.
While much to-do is made over the changes in Billie Holiday 's voice over the decades, any classical vocal student can tell you that a voice, like an athlete,
So the next time you read an article on Billie Holiday 's life, remember that she was a genius who battled virulent segregation, racism, sexism, rape,
I would say one of my favorite books on Billie Holiday is called "On Billie," and it's just a collection of oral histories,
And I said to Tom, pretend you're Billie Holiday .
a world where Mary J. Blige and Billie Holiday could exist.
Unlike the other singers, the sensationalism around Billie Holiday 's personal life was legion.
By the nineteen-teens, the decade of Billie Holiday 's birth, several residential ordinances, passed by progressives and bolstered by Social Darwinist
The final straw came when segregation on the radio waves forced the band to replace Billie Holiday 's voice with Helen Forrest for an important broadcast.
This song catapulted Billie Holiday into a new kind of stardom.
These are the same years that coincided with the last decade of Billie Holiday 's life.
And then I think that most of us are very familiar with Billie Holiday in the later years, where it's a drawl,
Because I had spent a whole long time listening to "Strange Fruit" by Billie Holiday 's collection.
And so I really grew up on the farm, and my mom was always listening to Billie Holiday , Nat King
And it's about Billie Holiday dying.
or, as you say, Billie Holiday , Nina Simone-- just people who I suppose wrote bravely
I had to learn like Motown and Aretha and jazz, Billie Holiday and Ella Fitzgerald.
I'm here to present Miss Kim Nalley, who's going to be speaking about Billie Holiday .
It is the centennial of the birth of the woman whose name is eponymous with the words "jazz singer," Billie Holiday .
There is a great triumvirate of vocal jazz, which consists of Billie Holiday , Ella Fitzgerald, and Sarah Vaughan.
into prostitution, and try to afford the same emotions for Billie Holiday .
Now it would seem that by the time Billie Holiday made her Apollo debut in 1934
There's almost no recordings of this period, because Billie Holiday and Count Basie were signed to competing record label contracts.
It seems like this would have been a match made in heaven, Billie Holiday and Count Basie.
And the poet, the speaker, sees it on "The New York Post" that Billie Holiday died.
You know, Amy Winehouse, Whitney Houston, Edith Piaf, Billie Holiday .
You just walk into like, and now you're in New Orleans, and now you're in Chicago, and oh, there's Billie Holiday .
As a scholar, she has written several jazz-themed history papers, including "This Bitter Earth-- Infertility in Billie Holiday , Ella Fitzgerald, and Sarah Vaughan;"