Billie Holiday was born Eleanora Fagan on April 7, 1915, in Baltimore, Maryland. (She borrowed the name "Billie" from one of her favorite movie actresses, Billie Dove.) Born to an unwed teenage mother, Sadie Fagan, Holiday's childhood was one of poverty. Her father, Clarence Holiday (lat...
Holiday’s dramatic intensity rendered the mostbanallyric profound. Among the songs identified with her were “Strange Fruit,”“Fine and Mellow,”“The Man I Love,”“Billie’s Blues,”“God Bless the Child,” and “I Wished on the Moon.” The vintage years of Holiday’s professional and...
That torment, as well as the music icon’s life, is the subject of the upcoming Lee Daniels biopic starring Andra Day as Holiday and Trevante Rhodes as undercover FBI agent-turned-lover Jimmy Fletcher. Slated to land February 26th as a Hulu Original film, the movie also features Tone Be...
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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Billie Holiday was born Eleanora Fagan on April 7, 1915, in Baltimore, Maryland. (She borrowed the name "Billie" from one of her favorite movie actresses, Billie Dove.) Born to an unwed teenage mother, Sadie Fagan, Holiday's childhood was one of poverty. Her father, Clarence Holiday (lat...