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Billie Holiday was born Eleanora Fagan on April 17, 1915, in Philadelphia, but she was raised in the Pigtown slum of Baltimore, Maryland. She was raped at age 10 and sent to a reform school as a result. Afterwards she ran errands at a whorehouse where she heard Bessie Smith records whi...