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Billie Holiday Biography
Born: April 7, 1915
Baltimore, Maryland
Died: July 17, 1959
New York, New York
African American jazz singer
Billie Holiday was an African American jazz vocalist who perhaps showed the most expression of feeling of any singer in jazz history.
Early life
Billie Holiday was born Eleanora Fagan on April 7, 1915, in Baltimore, Maryland. (She borrowed the name "Billie" from one of her favorite movie actresses, Billie Dove.) Born to an unwed teenage mother, Sadie Fagan, Holiday's childhood was one of poverty.
Her father, Clarence Holiday (later a jazz guitarist) married Sadie three years later.
Judy Holliday was born Judith Tuvim in New York City on June 21, Her mother, a piano teacher, was attending a play when she went into labor.He never lived with the family, choosing his musical career over them. As a child Billie started working very young, running errands and cleaning a house of prostitution's (a place where sexual acts are traded for money) marble stoop.
It was here that she first heard Louis Armstrong (1900–1971) and Bessie Smith (18