Jazz Singer Billie Holiday

Billie Holiday

Living place: Philadelphia

Birthday: 7-4-1915

Population of US 1915: 100,546,000

Global rank: #11098

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Jazz Singer Billie Holiday profile

Who is Jazz Singer Billie Holiday?
American jazz singer and songwriter singing "exotic fruit," "Easy Living," and "Lady Sings the Blues." She has received many awards, including a Grammy Hall of Fame appointee.
After being released from prison at the age of fourteen, she began singing under the stage name Billie Holiday. The name Holiday comes from Billie Dove, an actress, and the man she believes is her father, Clarence Holiday.
 
 

Young / Before famous

She went to New York City, where she and her mother both ended up in prostitution and were later sent to prison.

Family life info

She married Jimmy Monroe on August 25, 1941 and, after their divorce in 1957, she married Louis McKay on March 28, 1957.

Close relationship

Who is Boy (girl) friend/ wife (husband)/ darling Jazz Singer Billie Holiday?
She is good friends with fellow jazz legend Ella Fitzgerald.

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Summary of Billie Holiday profile

When was Jazz Singer Billie Holiday born?
Billie Holiday was born in 7-4-1915, death year is , at the age of 109.
Where is Jazz Singer Billie Holiday's birth place, what is Zodiac/Chinese Zodiac?
Billie Holiday was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania- United States. is a Jazz Singer, whose Zodiac is Aries, and who Chinese Zodiac is The Cat. Billie Holiday's global rank is 11098 and whose rank is 4 in list of famous Jazz Singer. Population of US in 1915 is about 100,546,000 persons.
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Events in 1915 and 7-4

Events in US in the birth year of Billie Holiday

  • The one millionth Ford automobile rolls off the assembly line.
  • The Superior Court in Fulton County, Ga. accepts the charter for the establishment of the new Ku Klux Klan (Dec. 4).

Birthday Billie Holiday (7-4) in history

  • Day 7-4 year 1862: Gen. Ulysses S. Grant defeated the Confederates at the battle of Shiloh.
  • Day 7-4 year 1913: 5,000 suffragists march to the Capitol in Washington, D.C. , seeking the vote for women.
  • Day 7-4 year 1927: U.S. secretary of commerce Herbert Hoover’s Washington speech was seen and heard in New York in the first long-distance television transmission.
  • Day 7-4 year 1948: The World Health Organization, a UN agency, was founded.
  • Day 7-4 year 1949: Rodgers’ and Hammerstein’s Pulitzer Prize winner, South Pacific opened on Broadway.
  • Day 7-4 year 1994: Hutu extremists in Rwanda began massacring ethnic Tutsis and politically moderate Hutus. In 100 days of killing, an estimated 800,000 are murdered.
  • Day 7-4 year 2003: Cécile de Brunhoff, creator of Babar the elephant, died.
  • Day 7-4 year 2009: Vermont becomes the fourth U.S. state to legalize same-sex marriage, just days after Iowa becomes the third.
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