Billie Holiday, geboren als
Elinore Fagan, (7. April 1915 - 17. Juli 1959).
Holiday zählt zu den bedeutendsten Jazzsängerinnen.
Billie Holiday (April 7, 1915 – July 17, 1959),
born Eleanora Fagan and later nicknamed Lady Day
(see 'Jazz royalty' regarding similar nicknames),
was an American jazz singer, composer, a seminal
influence on jazz and pop singers, and generally
regarded as one of the greatest female jazz vocalists.
