Facts About Billie Holiday
1. Billie was born on April 7, 1915 as Eleanora Fagan.
2. Billie Holiday was born in Philadelphia, but lived most of her childhood in Baltimore.
3. Holiday went to a facility for troubled girls at the age of nine.
4. Billies' inspirations were Bessie Smith and Louis Armstrong
5. Billie Holiday was an influential jazz singer.
6. Billie moved to Harlem, new York and became a prostitute for awhile.
7. Holiday renamed herself after Billie Dove.
8. Her first commercial release was "Your Mother's Son-In-Law."
9. She was one of the first African American Females to work in a white orchestra.
10. She died in 1959.
2. Billie Holiday was born in Philadelphia, but lived most of her childhood in Baltimore.
3. Holiday went to a facility for troubled girls at the age of nine.
4. Billies' inspirations were Bessie Smith and Louis Armstrong
5. Billie Holiday was an influential jazz singer.
6. Billie moved to Harlem, new York and became a prostitute for awhile.
7. Holiday renamed herself after Billie Dove.
8. Her first commercial release was "Your Mother's Son-In-Law."
9. She was one of the first African American Females to work in a white orchestra.
10. She died in 1959.
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