The Truth About Billie Holiday: The Tragic Life Of A Jazz Legend

The Truth About Billie Holiday: The Tragic Life Of A Jazz Legend
Billie Holiday is widely regarded as the greatest jazz singer of all time, and had a huge impact on singers in popular music in general, and jazz in particular. Holiday’s career was at its height from the mid-1930s to the late 1950s. Despite her peak lasting just over two decades, she changed the face of American music.Holiday’s achievements were not only based on her vocal style, but also her extraordinary life story, which was heavily touched by racism, drug addiction, and many other personal struggles. One of the things that made her great was how she channeled her suffering into deeply moving and memorable vocal performances. Yet Holiday was not a victim. She was tough, and has been described as the “wild woman of jazz.”
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Holiday was a pioneer who changed music in a time before her and a time after her, and her impact continues. In the decades since her death in 1959, at the age of 44, Holiday won a total of five Grammy Awards, including a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award, in 1987. In 2000, Holiday was inducted in the Rock ‘n Roll Hall of Fame by Diana Ross in the Early Influences category. And in 2011, Holiday was inducted into the National Women’s Hall of Fame.

Billie Holiday was born as Elinore Fagan on April 7, 1915, in Philadelphia, to an unmarried teenage couple, Sarah ‘Sadie’ Fagan and Clarence Halliday. The latter was a jazz rhythm guitarist and banjo player, and largely absent in her life. Her mother worked on passenger railroads, and often left the young Eleanore in the care of her sister’s mother-in-law.
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