Karen Candelaria & Han Nguyen US History Period 4 January 25‚ 2016 Billie Holiday The musical artist we chose to write about was Billie Holiday. The topics that we’ll be explaining are her life‚ her musical career and what lead her to become famous‚ and one of her songs called “Strange Fruit” with the background story behind the song’s meaning. We decided to do this project because she’s known to be one of the best jazz singer back then and we wanted to know how and why she was so interested in
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Biography of Billie Holiday Billie Holiday was born Eleanora Fagan. She grew up in Baltimore which had a lot of Jazz talent in the 1920’s. As a teenager she began her apprenticeship singing alongside Bessie Smith and Louis Armstrong in after-hour clubs. Billie moved with her mom to New York and that’s where made singing debut in obscure Harlem nightclubs. She borrowed her name from screen star Billie Dove. Even though she never had any training or couldn’t even read music a participant in what was
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Billie Holiday was a inspirational jazz singer who died due to heart failure in 1959. Frank O’Hara is the Author of "The Day Lady Died" which was a tribute to Billie Holiday regarding her death.The New York Times Newspaper article about the death of Billie Holiday and the poem The Day Lady Died can be related in multiple ways. For instance they both share the same Audiences‚ for example critics‚ the world‚ lovers of Billie Holiday‚ they share the same purpose as to why it was published‚ and they
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To understand the controversy that Billie presented one must first go to the root or source of such controversy and examine Billie’s childhood. Billie was born Eleanora Harris to her father Clarence Holiday and mother Sadie Fagan who were just fifteen and thirteen years old‚ respectively‚ at the time (A 91). Born between 1912 and 1915 in Baltimore‚ the date unsure‚ Billie grew up without her father‚ who moved away early on in her life. Billie and her mother used to fight a lot‚ when her mother
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Billie was born to the name‚ Eleanora Fagan on April 7‚ 1915. She was born in Philadelphia but grew up in the Fell’s Point section of Baltimore. Her mother‚ was just 13 at the time of her birth; her father‚ was 15. Holidays’ teenage parents‚ Sadie Harris (aka Fagan) and probable father‚ Clarence Holiday‚ never married‚ and they did not live together for a long time. Clarence‚ a banjo and guitar player worked with Fletcher Henderson’s band in the early 30s. He remains a shady figure who left his family
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Search Of Billie Holiday: If You Can’t Be Free‚ Be a Mystery is an inspiring analysis of Billie Holiday that pairs Griffin’s passion for the singer with a deep critical examination that deconstructs the myth of Billie Holiday that has been perpetuated through her “autobiography‚” the media‚ the Academy Award nominated biopic Lady Sings the Blues‚ as well as countless biographies that construct a tragic mulatto narrative around the vocal genius. Though I was only familiar with the myth of Holiday‚ a brief
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Devin Greenlaw 3/2/13 2nd Period Love the Holiday (Billie Holiday Report) Born Eleanora Fagan on April 7‚ 1915 in Philadelphia‚ PA; the amazing jazz vocalist never imagined she was going to become one of the biggest jazz musicians of all time. Rose Primarily in Baltimore‚ MD with her mother‚ Sady Fagan‚ who gave birth to Billie at the age of nineteen. Billie was raised primarily with her mother. Her father‚ believed to be Clarence Holiday who was a successful jazz musician himself‚ wasn’t
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Billie Holiday is one of the greatest jazz singers of her time. Although her legacy shines bright‚ her life was often plagued by the adversity of drugs‚ men‚ and alcohol. Critics do not give enough credit to the struggle of Billie Holiday‚ whose highs and lows were commonly expressed through her strong vocals and combination of blues‚ jazz‚ and swing. She‚ unlike any other artist‚ came from nothing in Baltimore and found different avenues to rise through jazz history. Similar to her immediate family
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. Billie Holiday was born Eleanora Fagan on April 7‚ 1915‚ in Philadelphia‚ Pennsylvania‚ to Sarah Julia "Sadie" Fagan (née Harris). Her father‚ Clarence Halliday (Holiday)‚ a musician‚ did not marry or live with her mother. Her mother had moved to Philadelphia at the age of thirteen‚ after being rejected from her parents’ home in Sandtown-Winchester‚ Baltimore for becoming pregnant. With no support from her own parents‚ Holiday’s mother arranged for the young Holiday to stay with her older married
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The lady that sings the blues was known as Billie Holiday or Lady Day to many. Billie Holiday was the greatest female jazz singer in American history. Billie started out as a young girl who‚ like her idols of Bessie Smith and Louis Armstrong turned whatever material she was given into a piece of art of her own. Billie Holiday stated “I hate straight singing. I have to change a tune to my own way of doing it. That’s all I know.” Billie Holiday sang as if she knew her music had so much emotional
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