Billie Holiday. Soundtrack: Minority Report. Billie Holiday was a true artist of her day and rose as a social phenomenon in the 1950s. Her soulful, unique singing voice and her ability to boldly turn any material that she confronted into her own music ma
slast nameand took the name Billie from a favourite movie actress, Billie Dove. In 1928 she moved with her mother fromBaltimore,Maryland(where she had spent her childhood), to New York City, and after three years of subsisting by various means, she found a jobsingingin aHarlemnightclub. ...
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 f...
The young girl Eleanora Fagan changed her name to Billie, because she liked a movie star, Billie Dove. The talented Billie Holiday loved singing. She sang and listened to music whenever she could. In one place near her home there was a machine that played records. The building was a theat...
Later shemoved to New York City where the pay was higher , for which she had to send her daughter to one of her relatives .T he young girl changed her name to Billie,because she liked a movie star , Billie Dove .T he talented Billie Holiday loved singing. She sang and listened to ...
As the titular Holiday, Day is absorbed by the spirit of the late jazz great, with her appearance and vocal pattern a perfect emulation. She’s simply magnetic. And not just when she’s singing either – although that in itself is a stunning experience – bu...
pioneering a new way of manipulating phrases and tempos. She was born Eleanora Fagan in 1915 and dropped out of school in fifth grade. Holiday grew up having a rough life, but found her way out when she began to perform. Her singing style was deeply moving and individual to only her dur...
Andra Day successfully impersonates Billie Holiday’s throaty singing in “The United States vs. Billie Holiday.”Photo: Takashi Seida / Hulu Anslinger, who called jazz music “the devil’s work,” set in motion plans to destroy Holiday’s career just one day after she first stood ...
Billie Holiday once said: "I do not think I'm singing. I feel like I am playing a horn. What comes out is what I feel. I hate straight singing. I have to change a tune to my own way of doing it. That is all I know." ...
Billie Holiday was one of the greatest jazz singers in America. Her life was just a mixture of success and tragedy. Her singing expressed her experiences and feelings. Billie Holiday was born Eleanora Fagan in 1915 in Baltimore, Maryland. Her parents wer