Billie Holiday is considered to be one of the greatest jazz singers and female vocalists of all time. She was born in Philidelphia in 1915. She was kicked out of her parents home at the age of thirteen and lived in very difficult conditions in her early life.
"Lady Day" has always been a favorite jazz musician of mine. She worked on a number of collaborations with some very famous and very talented artists, creating some of the most beautiful music to come out of American music culture.
Difficult conditions indeed, she was impregnated at age 13 around the time she was kicked out (any correlation)? Also, the only way she could afford to live during the stages of her early singing career, was by working in a brothel.
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