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	Billie Holiday - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Billie Holiday's parents married when she was three, but they soon divorced, leaving her to be raised largely by her mother and other relatives.
		Billie Holiday remained under police guard until she died from cirrhosis of the liver on July 17, 1959 at the age of 44.
		Billie Holiday is interred in Saint Raymond's Cemetery, Bronx, New York.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Billie_Holliday (1326 words)

	Encyclopedia: Billie Holliday (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Much of Billie Holiday's childhood is clouded by conjecture and legend, some of it propagated by herself in her autobiography published in 1950.
		In the rare times Billie did see him, she would shake him down for money by threatening to tell his girlfriend of the moment that she was his daughter.
		That March 28, Billie married Louis McKay, a mafia "enforcer." McKay, like most of the men in her life, was abusive, but did try to get her off drugs.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Billie-Holliday (1018 words)

	Billie Holiday (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Much of Billie Holiday's childhood is clouded by conjecture and legend, some of it propogated by her own hand in her autobiography published in 1950.
		At the time of Billie's birth, her mother, Sadie Fagan, was just 13; her father Clarence Holiday, an accomplished jazz guitarist who would play in a band led by Fletcher Henderson, was 15.
		Billie was born in Philadelphia but grew up in the Fell's Point section of Baltimore.
	www.sciencedaily.com /encyclopedia/billie_holiday (949 words)

	Untitled Document (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Billie Holliday is famous for being one of the most popular jazz and blues musicians who ever lived.
		Billie's grandfather was a slave in Virginia, the illegitimate son of an Irish plantation owner.
		Billie Holliday died at the early age of 44 in a hospital in New York City.
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	Billie Holiday (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Clarence abandoned the family and Billie's mother left her in the care of relatives who were mostly indifferent to the young child.
		Billie was already abusing alcohol and marijuana and Joe got her hooked on heroin.
		Billie died on July 17, 1959 of heart and liver disease caused by her drug and alcohol addiction.
	multirace.org /firstday/stamp34.htm (451 words)

	Kids.net.au - Encyclopedia Billie Holiday -
		Billie Holiday (1915 - 1959), also called Lady Day is generally considered one the greatest jazz singers of all times.
		She was swindled out of her considerable earnings and died with only 70 cents in the bank and $750 dollars hidden about her person.
		Billie Holiday is interred in St. Raymond's Cemetery, Bronx, New York.
	www.kids.net.au /encyclopedia?p=bi/Billie_Holliday (420 words)

	Gerry Mulligan by Craig Hanley - Judy Holliday (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Holliday's mother later claimed that she entered labor with Judy while watching Fannie Brice in a Ziegfeld show (on June 21, 1921), a sort of spiritual passing the torch from the great funny lady and tragedienne songstress of one generation to the next.
		Deep in to Holliday's adult life, they say, she was never able to recover from the blow to her psyche, which accounted for Holliday's lifelong failure to accept herself as the desirable and talented person she was to everyone else.
		However, TROUBLE was Holliday's album from the start and the repertoire of neglected gems (mainly from unrevived shows and revues) reflects her keen, eclectic tastes; one friend remarked that Holliday seemed to know the lyrics to every song ever written, especially those which originated in musical shows.
	www.gerrymulligan.info /m_holliday_judy.html (2919 words)

	Billie Holliday (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Billie tells the audience of Bessie Smith's influence upon her.
		Murphy's character is that of Billie's best friend and their friendship is evident with their heartfelt combination of vocals and instrument.
		Billie and her boys; I might even recommend that you even come back for a second or even a third visit.
	www.sixthatpenn.com /billie_holliday.htm (491 words)

	Reputations: Billie Holliday. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Note incidents in Billie Holiday’s life and career that suggest she was a victim of racism.
		Note incidents in Billie Holiday’s life and career that suggest she was a ‘feminist’.
		Billie Holiday has been claimed by feminists as an ‘icon’ in the struggle for women’s rights.
	www.foxtel.com.au /1635.htm (646 words)

	Dissertations, Essays on billie holliday
		Billie Holiday Billie Holiday was a famous jazz singer in the 1930’s and 1940’s.
		Billie’s financial success was shadowed by her disastrous personal life.
		Billie Holiday was one of the most influential jazz artists of her time.
	www.essayboom.com /essay/billie_holliday-20865.html (164 words)

	Dancer History Archives by StreetSwing.com - Billie Holliday - Main Page
		Billie was a social Jitterbug dancer at the Savoy Ballroom in Harlem, NY.
		Billie was raised in a house of Prostitution where poor morals, drinking and drugs were in abundance.
		She was arrested in 1947 and was jailed on drug charges and again in 1959 for a narcotic addiction, she died the same year at only 44 years of age.
	www.streetswing.com /histmai2/d2holdy1.htm (163 words)

	Amazon.com: Songs for Distingue Lovers (Reis) [EXTRA TRACKS]: Music (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		This 1957 recording is a performance of heightened expression, with Billie Holiday able to shift the mood and meaning of these very familiar songs with the slightest inflection of pitch and time, her phrasing the equal of any great jazz instrumentalist.
		Billie is taking songs that have been sung hundreds of times before and putting her own inimitable stamp on them.
		Nevertheless, this is a beautiful album in spite of the opinion of some uptight critics that Billie Holiday's late-period sides for Verve were merely the money-grubbing croaks of a former goddess descending gradually into her grave.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B0000047G1?v=glance (1850 words)

	African Americans - Billie Holiday, Jazz Singer, Also known as: Eleanora Fagan
		She was sent to a reformatory at the age of ten and had become a prostitute by the time she was twelve.
		In Baltimore (or perhaps later) she assumed the first name of her favorite movie star, Billie Dove, and the last name of her father, and practiced to be a singer, taking Bessie Smith and Louis Armstrong as models.
		Billie Holiday began singing in New York clubs as a teenager, and by the time she was old enough to drink legally she had established a reputation as a stirring jazz singer.
	www.africanamericans.com /BillieHoliday.htm (905 words)

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		Billie Holiday remains (four decades after her death) the most famous of all jazz singers.
		Billie essentially grew up alone, feeling unloved and gaining a lifelong inferiority complex that led to her taking great risks with her personal life and becoming self-destructive.
		Fortunately Billie Holiday's recordings have been better treated than she was during her life and virtually all of her studio sides are currently available on CD.
	www.ladyday.net /life/yanow.html (749 words)

	Amazon.com: Born Yesterday (1950) : Video (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Billie's not nearly as dumb as she seems, of course, and before long she's graduated from pawn to sassy queen on her husband's political chessboard.
		Billie may be put upon, uneducated and inarticulate, but she's in obsolete control of every situation in which she finds herself.
		Billie Dawn (Judy Holliday) is engaged to a junk dealer millionaire (Broderick Crawford) with a penchant for cutting shady deals and verbally abusing Billie.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/6302725542?v=glance (2243 words)

	Billie Holiday biography
		Billie "Lady Day" Holiday was born in Baltimore in 1915.
		She poured her heart and soul into every song and her ability to interpret a song and make you feel it was unheard of.
		While it is more commonplace today, Billie Holiday pioneered the style, and this is how she took ordinary 2nd-rate songs and made them extraordinary.
	airjudden.tripod.com /jazz/billieholiday.html (656 words)

	American Masters . Billie Holiday \| PBS
		Though her career was relatively short and often erratic, she left behind a body of work as great as any vocalist before or since.
		In 1959, after the death of her good friend Lester Young and with almost nothing to her name, Billie Holiday died at the age of forty-four.
		It is a tragedy that only after her death could a society, who had so often held her down, realize that in her voice could be heard the true voice of the times.
	www.pbs.org /wnet/americanmasters/database/holiday_b.html (706 words)

	PBS - JAZZ A Film By Ken Burns: Selected Artist Biography - Billie Holiday
		Jazz critic Stanley Crouch profiles Billie Holiday and reveals how she was influenced by Armstrong.
		Although she continued to sing and record, and to tour frequently until the mid-1950s, it was no longer with her former spirit and skill.
		Critic Nat Hentoff describes Billie Holiday's legendary 1957 performance of this song, a selection from National Public Radio's list of the 100 most important American musical works of the 20th Century.
	www.pbs.org /jazz/biography/artist_id_holiday_billie.htm (867 words)

	Who's Who in Salem \| Billie Reed \| Days of our Lives @ soapcentral.com
		Billie and her brother Austin came to Salem in late 1992, adding a new dynamic that had a ripple effect upon the populace.
		Later, they conceived a child named Georgia but Billie miscarried during her pregnancy and was devastated by the loss, but Billie did use it to her advantage and blamed Hope, which everyone later discovered wasn't true.
		Billie was involved in fierce competition with her mother over Nicholas Alamain.
	www.soapcentral.com /days/whoswho/billie.php (886 words)

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		Billie died at 3.20am on 17th July 1959 in the Metropolitan Hospital, Manhattan she is buried with her mother in St. Raymond's Cemetery in the Bronx.
		Billie Holiday is usually portrayed as a tragic victim of her own vices.
		Billie could not take part in these Decca sessions as she was signed to ARC/Columbia so she had four days off.
	www.billieholidaycircle.freeserve.co.uk (1960 words)

	TIGERX.COM Memorials: Fond Farewell Billie Holliday (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Billie Holiday was born in Baltimore, Maryland and went on to become one of the greatest singers of the jazz era.
		While Billie had no formal musical training, her records are regarded as masterpieces.
		While the singer of blues and love songs, Billie became addicted to heroin and alchol in the 1950s and it ultimately claimed her life at the young age of 43.
	www.tigerx.com /people/holliday.htm (93 words)

	Billie Holiday Page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Billie Holiday's turbulant life began in Baltimore, on 7th April, 1915, when she was born Eleanora Fagan Gough.
		Though she didn't return to the studio for over a year, Billie Holiday spent 1934 moving up the rungs of the competitive New York bar scene.
		Though her artistry was at its peak, Billie Holiday's emotional life began a turbulent period during the mid-'40's.
	www.soulwalking.co.uk /BillieHoliday.html (1821 words)

	Gale - Free Resources - Black History - Biographies - Billie Holiday (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The facts of Billie Holiday's early life are uncertain.
		She was born Eleanora Fagan, probably in Baltimore.
		Billie Holiday, Lady Sings the Blues (Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1956).
	www.galegroup.com /free_resources/bhm/bio/holiday_b.htm (992 words)

	LADY DAY VIRGINIA STAGE COMPANY TELLS THE STORY OF SINGER BILLIE HOLLIDAY IN HER OWN SONGS.
		IN FOUR MONTHS, Billie Holiday would be dead, $50 taped to her thigh as she left this world July 17, 1959.
		Calloway, a strikingly handsome woman with a quick smile, said she was never awed by the prospect of playing Holiday.
		``Billie Holiday is a multimillion-dollar industry,'' he said, ``but the abuse of the artist in our society, especially the devaluing of American artists, is something that continues.
	scholar.lib.vt.edu /VA-news/VA-Pilot/issues/1995/vp950323/03230041.htm (1489 words)

	The Official Web Site of Billie Holiday; Biography of Billie Holiday (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Billie Holiday's grandfather was one of 17 children of a fl Virginia slave and a white Irish plantation owner.
		The future "Lady Day" first heard the music of Louis Armstrong and Bessie Smith on a Victrola at Alice Dean's, the Baltimore "house of ill repute" where she ran errands and scrubbed floors as a young girl.
		Billie Holiday, a musical legend still popular today, died an untimely death at the age of 44.
	www.cmgww.com /music/holiday/bio.html (260 words)

	ATOMIC Magazine: The Essential Guide to the Retro Revival
		Born illegitimately to a teenage prostitute in Baltimore and raised by relatives while her mother tried her luck in New York City, Holliday (whose real name was Eleanora Fagan) was raped by a neighbor at age 10.
		It was supposedly in one of the bordellos that Holliday heard her first Louis Armstrong record, and it was as a teenager that Holliday was first introduced to drugs, and to a succession of men who beat her and stole her money.
		Shearer expertly mimics Holliday’s signature sound in the first set, her soulful essence is missing.
	www.atomicmag.com /articles/2000/lady_day_speaks.shtml (688 words)

	Billie Holliday on Almondnet (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Find your Billie Holiday at Kelkoo the product search engine which brings you millions of products from hundreds of shops.
		Billie Holiday, also called Lady Day is generally considered one of the greatest jazz singers of all time.
		Billie Holiday's turbulant life began in Baltimore, on 7th April...
	www.ncpm.co.uk /popmusic/billie_holliday.html (357 words)

	TalkLeft: Billie Holliday, Lott, Reagan and Ashcroft (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Jeanne D'Arc of Body and Soul has outdone herself today (no small feat) in her masterful post Lady Sings The Dixiecrat Double Entendre Blues --mixing Billie Holiday with Trent Lott (via a song named "Strange Fruit" that Ms.
		Holliday used to sing sometimes, and only sometimes because she tended to throw up afterwards, as it was about lynching,) racism, and the interpretation of words.
		And in fact, Billie was generally reluctant to sing the song, partly because, as you can imagine, it took a lot out of her.
	www.talkleft.com /new_archives/001169.html (359 words)

	billie holiday (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		It is interesting to note that the emphasis upon Billie, by the school authorities, is the effect she had upon fl issues and her drug/drink addictions.
		It is to be hoped that students will begin to listen to Billie's music rather than, as here in England where many of us develop an aversion to Shakespeare through enforced learning, develop such an aversion to Billie and in consequence, do not go on to develop an appreciation of her music.
		But the effect on audiences when Strange Fruit was performed by Billie Holiday (the first of which was in 1939), is recounted movingly by the author, and together with reports of those who witnessed her incredible performances told in their own words, the book conveys evocative images of pre-Civil Rights America.
	www.billieholidaycircle.freeserve.co.uk /BHCNews (1733 words)

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