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Billie Holiday

Blues
Jazz
Crooner
A tragic figure with an unhappy life, Billie Holiday had a rare ability to translate her pain and heartache into music to touch audiences in a uniquely emotional fashion. Her absentee father Clarence Holiday was a jazz musician, but she had a troubled upbringing, involving petty crime and spells at reform school, was reputedly raped at 11 and lived in a brothel with her mother, a Harlem prostitute. Inspired by Louis Armstrong and Bessie Smith, Holiday teamed up with a sax player, changed her name from Eleanora to Billie - after actress Billie Dove - and sang in local clubs, where...
Songs
Good Morning Heartache
Good Morning HeartacheBillie Holiday

The Best Of British Light Music

3:05

Strange Fruit
Strange FruitBillie Holiday

Lady Sings The Blues

3:03

I'll Be Seeing You
I'll Be Seeing YouBillie Holiday

Billie Holiday

3:32

All of Me- Take 2
All of Me- Take 2 

Album Version

Billie Holiday and Eddie Heywood

Lady Day : The Master Takes And Singles

3:02

That Ole Devil Called Love
That Ole Devil Called LoveBillie Holiday

Lover Man

2:52

All of Me
All of Me 

Previously Unreleased Track

Buddy DeFranco and Billie Holiday

The Piano Guys

1:43

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