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Billie Holiday

Billie Holiday Artist Biography   Born: April 07, 1915, Baltimore, MD, United States Died: July 17, 1959, New York, NY, United States Member of: Teddy Wilson & His Orchestra, Paul Whiteman Orchestra Related Artists: Billie Holiday and Louis Armstrong Notes Splits: Ella Fitzgerald / Billie Holiday, Ella Fitzgerald / Billie Holiday / Dinah Washington Also Known As: Lady Day, Eleanora Fagan Hough Eleanora Fagan Harris Genres: Vocal Jazz, Jazz, Standards, Swing,

Billie Holiday was one of the most famous jazz music singers in America. Her actual title was Eleanora Fagan. Like most lives of musicians, she had a really bad time growing up which broken her profession. Her life is composed about within the autobiography Woman Sings the Blues, but there are lots of things in there which are not really valid. Her stage title is from an actress, Billie Dove