Billie Holiday Informative Speech

Billie Holiday was known, as one of America's most memorable and influential all-time great jazz vocalist. The inspiration for many aspiring singers today. Holiday had a successful career for many years before she lost her battle with addiction. Holiday was one of the best singers in the early 19th century and was discovered in 1932. She had a deep childhood that impacted her life to become a singer but also had influenced her to do drugs. Holiday smoked marijuana since she was young and then started using heroin. Her success from that point was blemished by her growing abuse of drugs, as well as being in relationships that were abusive. Later on the drugs started affecting her voice. Holiday reminds me of many tragic figures that had