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Billie Holiday is tagged as: jazz, blues, female vocalists, jazz vocal, vocal jazz

Billie Holiday (Eleanora Fagan Gough, Philadelphia, April 7, 1915 – New York City, July 17, 1959) was an American jazz singer and songwriter.
Nicknamed Lady Day by her loyal friend and musical partner Lester Young, Holiday was a seminal influence on jazz and pop singing. Her vocal style, strongly inspired by jazz instrumentalists, pioneered a new way of manipulating phrasing and tempo. Above all, she was admired for her deeply personal and intimate approach to singing. Critic John Bush wrote that she “changed the art of American pop vocals forever.” She co-wrote only a few songs, but several of them have become jazz standards, notably “God Bless the Child”, “Don’t Explain”, and “Lady Sings the Blues”. She also became famous for singing jazz standards written by others, including “Easy Living” and “Strange Fruit.”
Billie Holiday had a difficult childhood, which greatly affected her life and career. Not much is known about the true details of her early life, though stories of it appeared in her autobiography, Lady Sings the Blues, first published in 1956 and later revealed to contain many inaccuracies.
Her professional pseudonym was taken from Billie Dove, an actress she admired, and Clarence H...
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Top 10 Billie Holiday Songs
God Bless the Child
Strange Fruit
Easy living
What a Little Moonlight Can Do
All of Me
My Man
You're My Thrill
Solitude
Blue Moon
Gloomy Sunday
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Top 10 Billie Holiday Albums
All Of Me
Don't Explain
The Complete Verve Studio Master Takes
Solitude
Lady Day: The Complete Billie Holiday on Columbia (1933-1944) (disc 1)
That Ole Devil Called Love
Lady Day & Prez 1937-1941
Lady Day: The Complete Billie Holiday on Columbia (1933-1944) (disc 2)
Lady In Satin
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