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Billie Holiday
Philadelphia native, Billie Holiday, is one of the most influential vocalists in all of American history, let alone jazz history. Even though her personal life contained more drama than a soap opera, many of her recordings have since become standards in jazz music. Please place all of your questions regarding this fascinating and incredible musician into this category.
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How old was billie holiday when she started her singing career?
Sadie Fagan, Billie Holiday's mother, was kicked out of her parents' house when she (Sadie) was 13 because she became pregnant. Because of uncertainty regarding the early years, little more is known than that Sadie was 13 or 14 when she gave birth to her daughter, Eleanora Fagan Gough, in Philidelphia. A link can be found below.
Did Billie Holiday have an affair with Benny Goodman?
It is said that Tallulah and Billie went around with each other and may have spent some nights together, but there are no sources to deny or conform this.
Does billy holiday have siblings?
Billy Idol has one sister, in fact the song "White Wedding" was written for her due to an early pregnancy.
What did Billie Holiday do as a major contribution?
Billie Holiday was a famous blues and jazz singer who was instrumental in the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s. Her biggest accomplishment is being the most famous female blues singer in history.
Yes, she was. She was well known for her many affairs with both men and women at a time when any forms of sex outside of marriage (especially homosexual sex) was considered taboo and unacceptable.
What are important things Billie Holiday did?
She was a jazz singer. "Lady Day." 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. She was a natural talent with excellent musical instincts and an earthy voice that matched the searching honesty of her songs. By the age of eighteen her fans included singer Mildred Bailey; Benny Goodman, with whom she recorded in 1933; and record producer-promoter John Hammond, who observed that "she sang popular songs in a manner that made them completely her own." Her nickname in Harlem was "Lady"; saxophonist Lester Young, an admirer, added the appellation "Day." She was "Lady Day," the hottest singer in Harlem before she was twenty. Career Peak.The best early Billie Holiday recordings were organized by Hammond with pianist Teddy Wilson. After the success of those sessions, Hammond was devoted to promoting Holiday's career. He arranged for her to appear with the best musicians of the day. By the end of the 1930s she had sung in the bands of Count Basie and Artie Shaw, but life with a big band was too restrictive for her, and in 1938 she became a solo act. In January 1939 she opened at the new Greenwich Village club Cafe Society, where she sang for nine months and introduced her classic protest against lynching, "Strange Fruit." Holiday was a success, but she was also living her music with disastrous effects. In August 1941 she married Jimmy Monroe, and by the time of their breakup soon afterward, she was an opium user and a heroin addict. She was making one thousand dollars a week in the early 1940s and spending her money on her habit. She was also at the peak of her career. In 1943 she was voted the best jazz vocalist in the Esquire magazine readers' poll. With that acknowledgment of her greatness, Decca Records began making a series of thirty-six recordings that are regarded among the finest jazz vocals of the time. "Lover Man," "Porgy," "Now or Never," and a duet with Louis Armstrong on "My Sweet Hunk of Trash" are among those releases that mark the last of the good times for her. from "Billie Holiday." American Decades. Gale Research, 1998.
Reproduced in Biography Resource Center. Farmington Hills, Mich.: Gale, 2008. http://galenet.galegroup.com/servlet/BioRC
she is a singer
How many records did Billie Holiday sell?
Probably around 6 to 7 million copies if you include the sales from all the other countries around the world where the song didn't receive a "Gold" or "Platinum" certification.
Real, certified, and provable sales are below:
*sales figures based on certification alone
^shipments figures based on certification alone
Where was Billie Holiday's first concert?
One of her favourite places to perform was the Zebra Room at the Lenox Lounge in Harlem, one of the oldest jazz clubs in New York and that is currently being threatened with closure. If you go there, you can sit in her favourite seat.
Who As a young teenage performer Billie Holiday began her singing career with the band of?
Benny Goodman
What is a famous song by Billie Holiday?
Some of Billie Holiday's most famous songs are...
"Easy Living", "Good Morning Heartache", "Strange Fruit", "God Bless the Child", "Don't Explain", "Fine and Mellow", and "Lady Sings the Blues".
What are the names of Billie Holidays kids?
Billie Holidays kids names are Billie and Bob. This kids are her god children.
What three songs of Billie Holiday's received Grammy Hall of Fame?
I don't know all 3 but "God Bless The Child", and "My Man" are 2 of the 3 I believe. The 3 Billie Holiday songs that were inducted into the Grammy Hall Of Fame are :- God Bless Th Child, 1976. Lover Man, 1989. Strange Fruit, 1978. These are listed in "The Grammy's For The Record" by Thomas O'Neil published by Penguin.
Did Billie Holiday have children when she was alive?
billie holiday had two kids she never knew what to do with all those kids plues she had tree husbands all at the same thime so how many did her mother let her have
Did billie holiday have siblings?
Billie Holidays father fathered two children but with a different mother than Billies. He married a white woman who was a dancer before he passed and it has commonly been believed that they passed themselves off as white. Billies mother married a man named Phillip Gough which Billie mentions in her book "Lady sings the blues" his daughter Kay Kelly always claimed to be Billies half sister even posting bail for her supposedly in a Philadelphia arrest and showing up at her bedside before her death buying night gowns for her "sister" however, as Phillip Gough is not Billies natural father and her mother Sadie Fagan did not bare Kay Kelly basically she is of no relation except thru a marriage that ended in divorce in the 1920s
Where can you get the old SoupToys holiday updates?
All of the old Souptoys holiday updates are still in your Toybox, but you can no longer see all of them.
Once a holiday is finished the toy is not taken out of your Toybox, but merely hidden from view. To play with these toys again you need to find a playset with them in it. A good place to look is www.Souptoys.com
If you search for the words Halloween or Christmas, I think you will find what you are looking for.
