“[I was] expecting the cops to come in any chorus and carry me off. But nothing happened. I was a huge success.”
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Billie Holiday
Billie Holiday was an American jazz and swing music singer. Nicknamed "Lady Day" by her friend and music partner, Lester Young, Holiday made significant contributions to jazz music and pop singing. Her vocal style, strongly influenced by jazz instrumentalists, inspired a new way of manipulating phrasing and tempo. Holiday was known for her vocal delivery and improvisational skills.
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entertainment · American jazz singer (1915–1959) · actor · songwriter · author · singer-songwriter · jazz singer · composer · autobiographer · musician · singer · jazz musician · also Billie Holiday, Eleanora Fagan, Eleanora Fagan Gough, Lady Day, Holiday
Born 7 April 1915 · Died 17 July 1959 · Q104358
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2026· 6 entries
“I took them out of box and fastened them smack to the side of my head without even looking twice.”
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“none of it was left in the picture. And very damn little of me. I know I wore a white dress for a number I did ... and that was cut out of the picture.”
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“I left two years later as a star. I needed the prestige and publicity all right, but you can”
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“Her singing almost changed my music tastes and my musical life, because she was the first girl singer I”
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Hyperallergic: Who Should Design NYC’s New Billie Holiday Monument?
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2025· 2 entries
BroadwayWorld: The Billie Holiday Theatre Launches CARIBBEAN CALLING – ROOTS & RESURGENCE Theatre Festival
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Published video “Billie Holiday, Henry Green - You Go To My Head (Henry Green Remix / Visualizer)”.
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2024· 7 entries
Published video “Celebrate the holidays the Billie Holiday way— our Black Friday Sale is here! #shorts #BillieHoliday”.
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Published video “Refresh Your Fall Vibe with Billie Holiday's Merch & Music! #shorts #BillieHoliday”.
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BroadwayWorld: The Billie Holiday Theatre Reveals 2024/25 Season Lineup
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Published video “Thank You for 150K #BillieHoliday YouTube Subscribers! #shorts”.
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The Washington Post: Billie Holiday’s gowns and gardenias were an assertion of dignity
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Yahoo: How I Learned the Truth About Billie Holiday
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Wall Street Journal: Billie Holiday Was a Songwriter, Too
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2023· 4 entries
Released album “Misty & Blue”.
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The Guardian: Zahra Newman on becoming Billie Holiday: ‘I want people to feel how they do when they listen to her’
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Yahoo: Inside Billie Holiday’s Incredible Career in the Face of Difficulty: ‘Triumphed Against the Odds’
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“200 Greatest Singers of All Time”
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2022· 7 entries
Architectural Digest: Billie Holiday’s Former Upper West Side Townhouse Is Back on the Market for $14 Million
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Published video “Billie Holiday - Blue Moon (Audio)”.
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Published video “Billie Holiday - Moonglow (Audio)”.
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Published video “Billie Holiday - Solitude (Audio)”.
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Published video “Billie Holiday - Lover Man (Audio)”.
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Published video “Billie Holiday - My Man (Audio)”.
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Published video “Billie Holiday - Don't Explain (Audio)”.
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2021· 4 entries
The Guardian: TV tonight: the story of Billie Holiday
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The Guardian: The United States vs Billie Holiday review – Andra Day's film all the way
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The Guardian: God bless the style: how Billie Holiday made glamour revolutionary
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The Guardian: The United States vs Billie Holiday review – Lee Daniels' misguided biopic | Peter Bradshaw's film of the week
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2020· 3 entries
The Guardian: M Ward: Think of Spring review – a spectral tribute to Billie Holiday
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The Guardian: Billie review – a truer, historical spin on the great Billie Holiday
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The Guardian: Singer, activist, sex machine, addict: the troubled brilliance of Billie Holiday
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2019· 3 entries
Snopes.com rated the claim “U.S. President Donald Trump demanded that jazz singer Billie Holiday posthumously change her name to Billie Christmas.” Labeled Satire.
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Time created 89 new covers to celebrate women of the year starting from 1920; it chose Holiday for 1939
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Chirlane McCray announced that New York City would build a statue honoring Holiday near Queens Borough Hall
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2011· 1 entry
Awarded National Women's Hall of Fame (2011).
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2010· 1 entry
Essence: Flashback Friday: Billie Holiday
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2009· 1 entry
Awarded Grammy Hall of Fame (2009).
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2008· 1 entry
Awarded Maryland Women's Hall of Fame (2008).
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2007· 2 entries
Released album “The Man I Love”.
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Released album “Lady Day”.
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2005· 1 entry
Released album “Romance in the Dark, Vol. 1”.
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2004· 2 entries
Awarded Grammy Hall of Fame (2004).
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Released album “The Love Songs”.
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2003· 3 entries
Released album “You Go to My Head / Blue Moon / Tenderly”.
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Released album “Body & Soul”.
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Released album “Les Plus Beaux Moments Jazz”.
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2001· 1 entry
Released album “Billie Holiday: Star Power”.
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2000· 2 entries
Awarded Rock and Roll Hall of Fame (2000).
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Holiday was also inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as an early influence; their website states that "Billie Holiday changed jazz forever"
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1999· 1 entry
Awarded Grammy Hall of Fame for Lady in Satin (1999).
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1995· 2 entries
Released album “On The Sentimental Side”.
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Released album “Love Me or Leave Me”.
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1994· 1 entry
As part of the "Legends of American Music" series, the United States Postal Service issued commemorative stamps bearing Holiday's image
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1992· 1 entry
Released album “The voice”.
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1990· 3 entries
Released album “Forever Gold”.
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Released album “Fine and Mellow”.
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Released album “Billie Holiday With Teddy Wilson & His Orchestra”.
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1989· 7 entries
Released album “Cheek to Cheek”.
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Released album “Me, Myself and I”.
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Released album “Autour de Minuit”.
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Released album “In Person, In Concert”.
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Released album “20 Suosituinta”.
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Released album “The Quintessential Billie Holiday, Volume 5: 1937-1938”.
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Released album “Too Hot for Words”.
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1988· 13 entries
Awarded Grammy Hall of Fame (1988).
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Released album “The Billie Holiday Collection”.
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Released album “Lady Day (1939-1944): The Sixteen Original Commodore Interpretations”.
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Released album “The Legendary Masters Unissued or Rare 1935-58”.
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Released album “Lady's Decca Days, Volume Two”.
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Released album “16 Greatest Hits”.
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Released album “Lady Swings the Blues”.
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Released album “The Quintessential Billie Holiday, Volume 3: 1936-1937”.
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Released album “The Quintessential Billie Holiday, Volume 4: 1937”.
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Released album “Lady Sings of Love”.
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Released album “Lady’s Decca Days, Volume One”.
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Released album “Billie Holiday at Storyville”.
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Released album “Billie Holliday and Her Orchestra”.
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1987· 11 entries
Awarded Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award (1987).
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Released album “The Quintessential Billie Holiday, Volume 1: 1933-1935”.
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Released album “Good Morning Heartache”.
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Released album “Lady Day & Prez 1937–1941”.
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Released album “The Quintessential Billie Holiday, Volume 2”.
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Released album “The Lady Sings the Blues”.
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Released album “Compact Jazz: Billie Holiday”.
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Released album “Les Génies du Jazz: Featuring Lester Young”.
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Released album “Masters of Jazz”.
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Released album “20 Golden Greats”.
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Released album “In Rehearsal”.
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1986· 8 entries
Awarded Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award (1986).
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Released album “Live 1937/56”.
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Released album “From the Original Decca Masters”.
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Released album “Holiday Romance”.
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Released album “The Billie Holiday Songbook”.
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Released album “Greatest Hits, Volume 1”.
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At the Alliance Theatre and has been revived several times
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Joel Whitburn's company Record Research compiled information on the popularity of recordings released from the era predating rock and roll and created pop charts dating back to the beginning of the commercial recording i
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1985· 2 entries
Released album “The Legends of Billie Holiday”.
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A statue of Billie Holiday was erected in Baltimore; the statue was completed in 1993 with additional panels of images inspired by her seminal song "Strange Fruit"
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1984· 1 entry
Released album “The Silver Collection”.
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1983· 1 entry
Released album “Billie Holiday, Volume II”.
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1982· 2 entries
Released album “The Golden Years 1933-1941”.
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Released album “Don't Explain”.
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1980· 1 entry
Released album “I Giganti Del Jazz Vol. 14”.
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1979· 1 entry
Released album “Giants Of Jazz: Billie Holiday”.
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1977· 1 entry
Awarded Grammy Hall of Fame (1977).
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1976· 1 entry
The song was added to the Grammy Hall of Fame
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1975· 2 entries
Awarded Grammy Hall of Fame (1975).
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Released album “The Story”.
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1973· 6 entries
Released album “The Voice of Jazz”.
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Released album “The History of the Real Billie Holiday”.
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Released album “The Billie Holiday Story Volume II”.
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Released album “Songs & Conversations”.
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Released album “The One and Only Lady Sings the Blues”.
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Released album “The Billie Holiday Story Volume I”.
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1972· 7 entries
Released album “The Four Queens of Jazz”.
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Released album “Sixteen of Her Greatest Interpretations”.
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With Diana Ross playing the role of Holiday
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Diana Ross's portrayal of Holiday in Lady Sings the Blues was nominated for an Oscar and won a Golden Globe
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Released album “Strange Fruit”.
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And was nominated for five Academy Awards, including Best Actress for Diana Ross, who also won a Golden Globe Award for her performance
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Released album “God Bless the Child”.
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1968· 1 entry
Released album “Billie Holiday's Greatest Hits”.
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1966· 2 entries
Released album “Easy to Remember”.
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Released album “"The Golden Years" Volume II”.
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1963· 1 entry
Released album “Billie Holiday and Vivian Fears”.
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1962· 2 entries
Released album “A Billie Holiday Memorial 2: This Is My Last Affair”.
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Released album “The Golden Years”.
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1961· 1 entry
Was voted to the DownBeat Hall of Fame, and soon after Columbia reissued nearly one hundred of her early records
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1959· 7 entries
Died 1959-07-17.
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Released album “Last Recording”.
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Holiday was finally taken to Metropolitan Hospital in New York for treatment of both liver and heart disease
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Released album “All or Nothing at All”.
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Released album “A Billie Holiday Memorial”.
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With lush backing from Ray Ellis and his Orchestra, who had also accompanied her on the Columbia album Lady in Satin the previous year (see below)
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Made one of her last television appearances for Granada Television's British cabaret show, Chelsea at Nine, in London
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1958· 4 entries
Released album “Lady in Satin”.
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Released album “The Blues Are Brewin’”.
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Released album “Stay With Me”.
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Released album “Songs for Distingué Lovers”.
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1957· 3 entries
Holiday married Louis McKay, a mob enforcer
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Released album “Body and Soul”.
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Sang as a headliner with Dinah Washington and others in Jazz Under the Stars, a summer concert series that took place at the Wollman Memorial Theater in New York City's Central Park
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1956· 7 entries
Calling it a worthy musical complement to her autobiography
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Holiday performed two concerts before packed audiences at Carnegie Hall
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Released album “Jazz Recital”.
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Released album “Velvet Mood”.
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Released album “A Recital By Billie Holiday”.
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Is inconsistent regarding details of her early life, but much was confirmed by Stuart Nicholson in his 1995 biography of the singer
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Released album “Lady Sings the Blues”.
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1955· 1 entry
Released album “Music for Torching”.
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1954· 2 entries
Released album “Billie and Stan”.
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Career landmark: Participated in Newport Jazz Festival (tournament / event).
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1953· 1 entry
Released album “An Evening With Billie Holiday”.
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1952· 2 entries
Released album “Solitude”.
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Released album “Billie Holiday Sings”.
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1951· 2 entries
Released album “Lover Man”.
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Released album “Billie Holiday Favorites”.
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1950· 1 entry
Holiday appeared in the Universal short film Sugar Chile Robinson, Billie Holiday, Count Basie and His Sextet, singing "God Bless the Child" and "Now, Baby or Never"
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1949· 2 entries
In her room at the Hotel Mark Twain in San Francisco by George Hunter White
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Released album “Teddy Wilson And His Orchestra Featuring Billie Holiday”.
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1948· 3 entries
Bob Sylvester and her promoter Al Wilde arranged a Broadway show for her
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Holiday played Carnegie Hall to a sold-out crowd
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Holiday played at the Ebony Club, which was against the law
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1947· 3 entries
Released album “Billie Holiday”.
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Holiday was arrested for possession of narcotics in her New York apartment
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Biberman was listed as one of the Hollywood Ten and sent to jail
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1946· 4 entries
Holiday won the Metronome magazine popularity poll
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That her performance had little variation in melody and no change in tempo
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About "Good Morning Heartache", saying, "there's a danger that Billie's present formula will wear thin, but up to now it's wearing well
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Holiday recorded "Good Morning Heartache"
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1944· 2 entries
Holiday entered the studio to record "Lover Man", saw the string ensemble and walked out
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Recording songs she made with Teddy Wilson in the 1930s, including "I Cover the Waterfront", "I'll Get By", and "He's Funny That Way"
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1943· 2 entries
Life magazine wrote, "She has the most distinctive style of any popular vocalist, [and] is imitated by other vocalists
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A flamboyant male torch singer, Willie Dukes, began singing "Lover Man" on 52nd Street
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1942· 1 entry
In Los Angeles, Holiday recorded "Trav'lin' Light" with Paul Whiteman for a new label, Capitol Records
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1941· 1 entry
And was third in Billboard's songs of the year, selling over a million records
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1939· 3 entries
Holiday recorded her biggest selling record, "Strange Fruit" for Commodore, charting at number 16 on the available pop chart for the 1930s
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With some trepidation, fearing possible retaliation
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And 1944; Decca Records from 1944 through 1950; briefly for Aladdin Records in 1951; Verve Records and on its earlier imprint Clef Records from 1952 through 1957; then again for Columbia Records from 1957 to 1958; and fi
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1938· 1 entry
The same day that Benny Goodman performed his legendary Carnegie Hall jazz concert, the Basie and Webb bands had a battle at the Savoy Ballroom
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1937· 1 entry
Making the year her most commercially successful
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1936· 1 entry
Originating from George Gershwin's Porgy and Bess the year before
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1935· 2 entries
Holiday was signed to Brunswick by John Hammond to record pop tunes with pianist Teddy Wilson in the swing style for the growing jukebox trade
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Holiday had a small role as a woman abused by her lover in Duke Ellington's musical short film Symphony in Black: A Rhapsody of Negro Life
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1934· 1 entry
And with whom Holiday had a rapport
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1932· 1 entry
17-year-old Holiday replaced the singer Monette Moore at Covan's, a club on West 132nd Street
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1926· 1 entry
Harris came home to discover a neighbor attempting to rape Holiday
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1920· 1 entry
But the marriage only lasted a few years
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1915· 2 entries
In Philadelphia to African American unwed teenage couple Clarence Halliday and Sarah Julia "Sadie" Fagan (née Harris)
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Born 1915-04-07.
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