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Billie Holiday (born Eleanora Fagan; April 7, 1915 – July 17, 1959) was an American jazz and swing music singer. ... Holiday died of heart failure on July 17, 1959 ...
She was a Jewish feminist [5] and a fan of Billie Holiday. [6] In 1971, she began plans for a biography of Holiday, who had died aged 44 in 1959. [3] She interviewed almost 200 people—friends, family members, band members, peers from 1930s Harlem, piano players, psychiatrists and a pimp—and was still finding people in 1978.
Billie Holiday at the Downbeat club, a jazz club in New York City. Billie Holiday (born Eleanora Fagan; April 7, 1915 – July 17, 1959) was an American jazz and swing music singer. Nicknamed "Lady Day" by her friend and music partner, Lester Young, Holiday made a significant contribution to jazz music and pop singing.
The author of a new biography on coming to understand the truth behind the legendary singer's public persona.
Get to know the story behind Billie Holiday's controversial "Strange Fruit," now the subject of Hulu biopic "The United States vs. Billie Holiday."
“I would’ve never known that I could have come this far. I dared to dream,” Lee Daniels tells ET’s Nischelle Turner as the game-changing filmmaker looks back on his career in Hollywood ...
Jazz artists such as Arvell Shaw, Pee Wee Russell, Eddie Condon, and Billie Holiday were often guests in the home. [4] With the decline of Dixieland jazz and the rise of discount record stores, in 1963, Crystal's father lost his business [6] and died later that year at the age of 54 [5] after having a heart attack. [4] His mother died in 2001. [6]
Tallulah Brockman Bankhead was born on January 31, 1902, ... Natasha Lyonne portrayed Bankhead in the 2021 Hulu film The United States vs. Billie Holiday.