Billie Holiday - Wikipedia
Billie Holiday (born Eleanora Fagan; April 7, 1915 – July 17, 1959) was an American jazz and swing music singer. Nicknamed "Lady Day" by her friend and music partner, Lester Young, Holiday made a significant contribution to jazz music and pop singing.
Billie Holiday (1915-1959) - Find a Grave Memorial
Billie essentially grew up alone, feeling unloved and gaining a lifelong inferiority complex that led to her taking great risks with her personal life and becoming self-destructive. Holiday's life improved after she was discovered by John Hammond singing in Harlem clubs.
Encore: Billie Holiday's Grave - NPR
2019年7月13日 · SIMON: Billie Holiday was just 44 years old when her heart and liver failed after years of drug and alcohol use. Thousands of people went to her funeral. A few years ago, we sent NPR's...
Looking For Lady Day's Resting Place? Detour Ahead - NPR
2012年7月17日 · When Billie Holiday died in 1959, thousands of mourners attended her funeral at St. Paul the Apostle Roman Catholic Church in New York City. The overflow crowd lined the sidewalks.
The Tragic Final Days of Billie Holiday - by Ted Gioia - Honest …
2021年8月29日 · At Young’s funeral, Holiday was heard predicting her own demise. Sylvia Sims, who encountered Billie Holiday on the street around this time, recalled her saying: “Baby, everyone I love is dead—and you dead and I’m dead.”
A TRIP DOWN MEMORY LANE: THE LAST DAYS OF BILLIE HOLIDAY …
2012年3月9日 · "Billie Holiday died in the Metropolitan Hospital, New York, on Friday, July 17, 1959, in the bed in which she had been arrested for illegal possession of narcotics a little more than a month before, as she lay mortally ill; in the room from which a police guard had been removed – by court order – only a few hours before her death, which ...
Harlem's Billie "Eleanora Fagan" Holiday - Harlem World Magazine
2022年10月15日 · Billie Holiday died in the Metropolitan Hospital, New York, on Friday, July 17, 1959, in the bed in which she had been arrested for illegal possession of narcotics a little more than a month before, as she lay mortally ill; in the room from which a police guard had been removed – by court order – only a few hours before her death, which ...
Billie Holiday Funeral - Getty Images
2023年3月11日 · Billie Holiday Funeral Men line up as the casket with the remains of American jazz and swing music singer Billie Holiday (1915 - 1959) is carried to the hearse from St. Paul the Apostle Church in New York, New York, July 21, 1959.
Encore: Billie Holiday's Grave - kedm.org
2019年7月13日 · SIMON: Billie Holiday was just 44 years old when her heart and liver failed after years of drug and alcohol use. Thousands of people went to her funeral. A few years ago, we sent NPR's Elizabeth Blair to visit her grave at St. Raymond's Cemetery in the Bronx.
Billie Holiday: The Tragic Life of Lady Day - Legacy.com
2015年4月1日 · We’re talking not of Michael Jackson’s funeral, but that of Billie Holiday, whose death in 1959 brought to an end one of the sadder stories in American pop music. Holiday was born Eleanora...