Holiday, Billie, 1915-1959
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Holiday, Billie, 1915-1959
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Holiday, Billie, 1915-1959
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Holiday, Billie
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Billie Holiday (Eleonora McKay)
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Billie Holiday (Eleonora McKay)
Billie Holiday
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Billie Holiday
Billie Holiday
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Billie Holiday
McKay, Eleanora
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McKay, Eleanora
Billy Holiday
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Billy Holiday
Fagan, Eleanora, 1915-1959
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Fagan, Eleanora, 1915-1959
Harris, Elinore.
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Harris, Elinore.
McKay, Eleanor.
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Fagan, Eleanora.
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Fagan, Eleanora.
Holiday, Billy 1915-1959
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Holiday, Billy 1915-1959
ホリデイ, ビリー
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ホリデイ, ビリー
Fagan, Eleonora 1915-1959
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Fagan, Eleonora 1915-1959
Billie Holidy
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Billie Holidy
Holliday, Billy, 1915-1959
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Holliday, Billy, 1915-1959
Holliday, Billie 1915-1959
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Holliday, Billie 1915-1959
Lady Day.
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Lady Day.
billie holiday and her orchestra
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billie holiday and her orchestra
Bille Holiday
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Bille Holiday
MacKay, Eleonora 1915-1959
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MacKay, Eleonora 1915-1959
Holiday
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Holiday
Lady Day, 1915-1959
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Lady Day, 1915-1959
Holiday, Eleanora
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Holiday, Eleanora
Fagan Gough, Eleanora 1915-1959
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Fagan Gough, Eleanora 1915-1959
Gough, Eleanora Fagan 1915-1959
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Gough, Eleanora Fagan 1915-1959
Billie Hoiliday
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Billie Hoiliday
McKay, Eleanora 1915-1959
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McKay, Eleanora 1915-1959
Николаева, И.Н
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McKay, Eleanor Gough
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McKay, Eleanor Gough
Billy Holliday
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Billy Holliday
McKay, Eleonora 1915-1959
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McKay, Eleonora 1915-1959
Holiday, Eleanora 1915-1959
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Holiday, Eleanora 1915-1959
Orłoś, Teresa Zofia
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Orłoś, Teresa Zofia
Billie Holliday With Lester Young
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Billie Holliday With Lester Young
Holiday, B. 1915-1959
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Holiday, B. 1915-1959
Allan, Lewis 1915-1959
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Allan, Lewis 1915-1959
Holiday, Billy
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Holiday, Billy
Billie Holliday
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Billie Holliday
Mackay, Eleonara G. 1915-1959
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Mackay, Eleonara G. 1915-1959
Billie Holiday & Her Orchestra
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Gough Harris, Eleanora.
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Biographical History
Billie Holiday (1915-1959), an African American blues and jazz singer, was born Eleanora Holiday in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on April 7, 1915. The daughter of Clarence Holiday and Sadie Fagan, Holiday began singing in the early 1930s and was discovered by John Hammond in 1933 at a Harlem jazz club. Her career included performances with Benny Goodman, Count Basie, and Artie Shaw. Holiday recorded on the Commodore, Columbia, and Decca record labels; her most famous recordings include "Strange Fruit," "Gloomy Sunday," and "Lover Man." She also appeared in the film New Orleans in 1946 and toured extensively. Billie Holiday had a series of husbands, marrying James Monroe in 1941, Joe Guy in 1945, and Louis McKay in 1956. She died July 17, 1959 in New York.
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https://id.loc.gov/authorities/n50033023
https://catalog.archives.gov/id/10581105
https://viaf.org/viaf/14857262
https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q104358
https://www.worldcat.org/identities/lccn-n50033023
https://id.loc.gov/authorities/n50033023
http://cbw.iath.virginia.edu/women_display.php?id=15281
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African American businesspeople
African Americans
African American women entertainers
African American women musicians
Blues (Music)
Choruses, Secular (Mixed voices (4 parts)), Unaccompanied
Jazz
Jazz vocals
Women jazz musicians
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Americans
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