Billie Holiday, born as Eleanora Fagan, was born on April 7th 1915 in Baltimore, Maryland. She was an American singer known for the difficult times in her life and her singing voice. Holiday is considered to have one of the greatest emotive jazz voices of all time.Holiday had a horrible life throughout a life; she admitted to using hard drugs in the 1940s. She married a trombonist Jimmy Monroe in 1941, and also took up with trumpeter Joe Guy, her drug dealer. In 1947, she split with Guy and divorced Monroe, and was also sentenced to jail for eight months due to drugs.
By the 1950s, Holiday’s relentless abuse to herself with drug abuse, drinking, and other abusive actions gave her voice a more swell and coarsen her voice. Holiday is considered to be a prime example of a artist with a bittersweet ending.
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