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Billie Holiday, birth name Eleanora Fagan was born on April 7, 1915 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the United States and died on July 17, 1959 in New York City, New York, the U.S. She is an American jazz singer and songwriter known also as Lady Day and Queen of Song. Critic John Bush wrote that she "changed the art of American pop vocals forever”. She co-wrote some of the jazz classics like "God Bless the Child", "Don't Explain", and "Lady Sings the Blues”. She also became famous for singing jazz standard songs written by others, including such compositions like "Easy Living" and "Strange Fruit”. During her life she was arrested for illegal possession of narcotics in her New York apartment and put in jail in 1947 but she was released in a year. She died in the hospital on the bed in which she had been arrested for narcotics as well. From our site you can download the hit collection by Billie Holiday in mp3.
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