Billie Holiday

Born: Philadelphia, PA, 1915

Years Active: 1935-1959

Influenced by: Frank Sinatra, Johnny Green, Lew Brown, Sigmund Romberg, Irving Gordon, Mack Gordon, Carl Fischer, Peggy Lee, Vincent Youmans, Betty Carter, Howard Dietz, James P. Johnson, Roy Eldridge, Teddy Wilson, Sam Coslow, Hoagy Carmichael, Helen Humes, Andy Razaf, Isham Jones, John Blackburn, Herb Ellis, John Kirby, Gus Kahn, Cole Porter, J. Fred Coots, Burton Lane, Victor Young, Sarah Vaughan, James Sherman, George Gershwin, DuBose Heyward, Dinah Washington, Robert Allen, Bud Green, Tom Adair, Eddie de Lange, Vernon Duke, Ralph Rainger, Frankie Laine, Arthur Freed, Trummy Young, Johnny Burke, Ray Noble, Harold Adamson, Mitchell Parish, Ira Gershwin, Bessie Smith, Edward Eliscu, Esther Phillips, Walter Donaldson, E.Y. "Yip" Harburg, Maurice Yvain, Bing Crosby, Clarence Williams, Leo Robin, Louis Armstrong, Jack Lawrence, Gordon Jenkins, Don Redman, Victor Schertzinger, Jimmy McHugh, Irving Berlin, Sammy Fain, Lorenz Hart, Abe Lyman & Band, Peter de Rose, Walter Gross, Joe Bushkin, Herman Hupfeld, Buck Clayton, Carmen McRae, Kurt Weill, Joe Burke, Matt Dennis, Irving Kahal, Ben Webster, Oscar Hammerstein II, Billy Rose

Genre: World & Reggae

Biography: The first popular jazz singer to move audiences with the intense, personal feeling of classic blues, Billie Holiday changed ...

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