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Billie Holiday (born Eleanora Fagan; April 7, 1915 â€“ July 17, 1959) was an United States|American jazz singer and songwriter.

Nicknamed Lady Day<ref>(see "Jazz royalty" regarding similar nicknames)</ref> by her sometime collaborator Lester Young, Holiday was a seminal influence on jazz, and pop singing. Her vocal style — strongly inspired by instrumentalists — pioneered a new way of manipulating wording and tempo, and also popularized a more personal and intimate approach to singing.
Critic John Bush<ref>[http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=11:kcfqxqt5ldde~T1 allmusic ((( Billie Holiday > Biography )))]</ref> wrote that she "changed the art of American pop vocals forever."
She co-wrote only a few songs, but several of them have become jazz standards, notably "God Bless the Child (Billie Holiday song)|God Bless the Child," "Don't Explain," and "Lady Sings the Blues (song)|Lady Sings the Blues."

Biography
Early life
Image:Billie Holiday 1917.jpg|thumb|left|Photograph of a two-year-old Holiday
Billie Holiday had a difficult childhood, which greatly affected her life and career. Much of her childhood is clouded by conjecture and legend, some of it propagated by her autobiography, ''Lady Sings the Blues'', pu... read all