Term Papers on Billie Holiday

Term Paper Title	Billie Holiday
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Billie Holiday

Billie Holiday is one of the greatest jazz-blues singers of all time, she is also known as Lady Day. Born Eleanor Fagan in Philadelphia Pennsylvania, she spent an extremely poor childhood in Baltimore. Both her parents were in their early teens when she was born (her mother was 13). Her father, Clarence Holiday, left when she was a baby. Billie was also blamed for the death of her grandmother when she was six years old. Billie’s education ended at the fifth grade when her mother moved them to New York in l927. Other relatives sporadically looked out for Billie, but she earned much of her own living from age ten, when among other employment, she ran errands for a local brothel owner who, in return, allowed her to listen to jazz records.
In l931, she was a teenager working to support her sickly mother by dancing in a Harlem nightclub. She talked the manager into singing a few songs with the house band. The response of the audience to her unique voice was instantaneous. From then on, Billie Holiday attracted followers as she moved from club to club. A recording session in 1935 brought her to the public attention. Thereafter she was a vocalist with various orchestras including those of Count Basie and Artie Shaw. He...

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