Billie Holiday
Published on Nov 18, 2015
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PRESENTATION OUTLINE
EARLY LIFE
- Billie Holiday born as Eleanora Fagan on April 1, 1915
- Billie Holiday had a difficult childhood
- Holiday suffered from her mother's absences
- Holiday was sent to The House of the Good Shepherd for skipping school in 1925
- By the age11, Billie dropped out of school
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RAPE & PROSTITION
- December 24, 1926 came home to discover a neighbor Wilbur Rich, raping Billie. Rich was arrested
- Billie went back to The House of the Good Shepherd for the rape incident for her protecting.
- Holiday heard her first records of Louis Armstrong and Bessie Smith
- Holiday and her mother moved to New York City in 1929
- Billie was fourteen when her and her mother became prostitute.
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EARLY SINGING CAREER
- Holiday name came from an actress name Billie Dove
- 1935 she had a small part in A Rhapsody of Negro Life.
- In late 1930s Billie toured with count Basie and Artie Shaw
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SUCCESS
- Billie wrote a song based in the line God Bless the Child and add music
- God Bless the Child reach number 25 on the record charts in 1941
- In 1976 God Bless the Child was added to the Grammy Hall of Fame
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LEGAL TROUBLES
- In 1947 Billie made a quarter of a million dollar in three years
- May 16, 1947 Holiday was arrested for possession of narcotics in her New York apartment
- May 27, 1948 Holiday played Carnegie Hall to a sold out crowd
- Holiday stated she start using hard drugs in the early 1940s
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LADY SINGS THE BLUE
- Holiday health started deteriorate due to her heavy drinking, drugs and her abusive men
- Her autobiography Lady Sings the Blues was written in 1956
- In December 22, 1956, Billboard magazine reviewed Lady Sings the Blues, called it a worthy musical complement to her autobiography
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DEATH
- In early 1959 learn she cirrhosis of the livers
- May 31, 1959 Billie was admitted to hospital for her suffering liver and heart disease
- Billie was arrested in the hospital for possession of drugs
- Billie died July 17, 1959 pulmonary edema and heart failure at the age 44
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