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Billie Holiday |
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Name: Billie Holiday
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Eleanora Fagan Gough |
| Born: |
7 Apr 1915 |
| Died: |
17 Jul 1959 |
| Origin: |
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States |
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Lady Day |
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| Billie Holiday, also known as 'Lady Day' is generally considered one of the greatest jazz singer of all time. Born 'Eleanora Fagan', she had a difficult childhood which affected her life and career.
Much of Billie Holiday's childhood is clouded by conjecture and legend, some of it propagated by herself in her autobiography published in 1950. She was born in Philadelphia but grew up in the Fell's Point section of Baltimore. Her mother, Sadie Fagan, was just 13 at the time of her birth; her father Clarence Holiday, a jazz guitarist who would play for Fletcher Henderson, was 15. It's uncertain if they ever married. Clarence abandoned Sadie when Billie Holiday was an infant. Billie Holiday was largely raised by her mother and other relatives. A hardened and angry child, she dropped out of school at an early age and, allegedly, began working as a prostitute with her mother. This preceded her move to New York with her mother sometime in the early 1930s. |
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