Billie Dove.) Born to an unwed teenage mother, Sadie Fagan, Holiday's childhood was one of poverty. Her father, Clarence Holiday (later a jazz guitarist) married Sadie three years later. He never lived with the family,
Word to the wise that curious elementary-aged kids might need some extra story-telling around the more tumultuous parts of Holiday’s life. Buy Mister and Lady Day $6.99 6. Billie Holiday: The Musician and The Myth by John Szwed Unlike other biographies that dive into Holiday’s tragic ...
Eleanora (her preferred spelling) Harris was the daughter of Clarence Holiday, a professional musician who for a time played guitar with theFletcher Hendersonband. She and her mother used her maternal grandfather’ssurname, Fagan, for a time; then in 1920 her mother married a man surnamed Gough...
To great controversy, Lady Day introduced the world to the racially charged protest song "Strange Fruit." In the end, some believe it killed her.
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”Mom and Pop were just a couple of kids when they got married. He was eighteen, she was sixteen, and I was three.” The truth is, Holiday’s father was younger than her mother and didn’t hang around for any wedding. What Clarence Holiday did accomplish for his daughter, as O’Me...
The pop star fired back at the accusations on Twitter, insisting that nobody had pressured him into making the video, while further arguing that he didn't have to maintain a family-friendly image just because "Old Town Road" had previously been a hit with kids. "I am an adult," Lil ...
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In 1928 Holiday moved to New York City with her mother, who began work as a housemaid, but the 1929 depression (time of low economic conditions with high rates of unemployment) soon left her mother without work. In 1932 Holiday auditioned for a singing job and was hired. For the next ...