Billie Holiday
Billie Holiday
Eleanora Fagan, professionally known as Billie Holiday, was an American jazz musician and singer-songwriter with a career spanning nearly thirty years. Nicknamed "Lady Day" by her friend and music partner Lester Young, Holiday had a seminal influence on jazz music and pop singing. Her vocal style, strongly inspired by jazz instrumentalists, pioneered a new way of manipulating phrasing and tempo. Holiday was known for her vocal delivery and improvisational skills, which made up for her limited range and lack of...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionJazz Singer
Date of Birth7 April 1915
CityPhiladelphia, PA
CountryUnited States of America
I never hurt nobody but myself and that's nobody's business but my own.
God has blessed you when he lets you believe in somebody.
Mom and Pop were just a couple of kids when they got married. He was eighteen, she was sixteen and I was three.
Don't threaten me with love, baby. Let's just go walking in the rain.
Sometimes it's worse to win a fight than to lose.
If I don't have friends, then I ain't nothing.
I'm always making a comeback but nobody ever tells me where I've been.
The difficult I'll do right now. The impossible will take a little while.
You can be up to your boobies in white satin, with gardenias in your hair and no sugar cane for miles, but you can still be working on a plantation.
You've got to have something to eat and a little love in your life before you can hold still for any damn body's sermon on how to behave.
If you copy, it means you're working without any real feeling. No two people on earth are alike, and it's got to be that way in music or it isn't music.
Somebody once said we never know what is enough until we know what's more than enough.
If I don't have friends, then I ain't got nothing.
No two people on earth are alike, and it's got to be that way in music or it isn't music.