Billie Holiday

Jazz singer Billie Holiday was born on April 7 1915 as Eleanor Fagan and went on to become one of the most influential and poignant performers in music history. After a dark and troubled youth…

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

How does one craft a biography of Billie Holiday with a surprise ending? She is perhaps the most intensely chronicled figure in jazz…

She might not have had any formal musical training and she didn't have much in the way of a range but what she lacked Billie Holiday more than made up for with her voice. Holiday was also masterful with her improvisational skills as well. People were drawn to her voice, and were enchanted by the

Dexter Gordon Jazz photographer Herman Leonard has died. Leonard’s black and white photographs of jazz greats such as Billie Holiday, Frank Sinatra, Charlie Parker and Duke Ellington were masterpieces of lighting and mood. He captured moments in time that became an indelible part of jazz culture. Like the musicians his camera chronicled, his photographs sang. Billie Holiday

Billie Holiday (Eleanora Fagan, 1915-59) continued a busy schedule of recordings, concerts, radio broadcasts, television appearances and international tours

Billie Holiday wears a large white flower in her hair for a performance in New York City 1940s Photo Bradley Smith Corbis Images

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