Billie Holiday

Billie Holiday
Holiday at the Downbeat club, New York, c. Februar 1947
Background information
Birth name	Eleanora Fagan
Born	7 Apryle 1915(1915-04-07) Philadelphia, Pennsylvanie, U.S.
Oreigin	Harlem, New York, U.S.
Deid	Julie 17, 1959(1959-07-17) (aged 44) New York Ceety, New York
Genres	Vocal jazz, jazz blues, torch sangs, swing, blues, R&B
Thrift	Sangster
Instruments	Vocals
Years active	1933–1959
Labels	Brunswick, Vocalion, Okeh, Bluebird, Commodore, Capitol, Decca, Aladdin, Verve, Columbia, MGM
Associate acts	Ella Fitzgerald, Sarah Vaughan, Lena Horne, Carmen McRae, Louis Armstrong, Count Basie, Artie Shaw, Lester Young, Tony Scott
Wabsteid	www.billieholiday.com

Eleanora Fagan (Aprile 7, 1915 – Julie 17, 1959), professionally kent as Billie Holiday, wis an American jazz muisicker an sangster-sangwriter wi a career spannin nearly thirty years. Nicknamed "Lady Day" bi her friend an muisic pairtner Lester Young, Holiday haed a seminal influence on jazz muisic an pop singin. Her vocal style, strangly inspired bi jazz instrumentalists, pioneered a new wey o manipulatin phrasin an tempo. She wis kent for her vocal delivery an improvisational skills, which made up for her leemitit range an lack o formal muisic eddication. Thare war ither jazz sangsters wi equal talent, but Holiday haed a vyce that capturt the attention o her audience.