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Biography

Born: April 7, 1915 in Baltimore, MD
Genre: Jazz
Years Active: '30s, '40s, '50s

The first popular jazz singer to move audiences with the intense, personal feeling of classic blues, Billie Holiday changed the art of American pop vocals forever. More than a half-century after her death, it's difficult to believe that prior to her emergence, jazz and pop singers were tied to the Tin Pan Alley tradition and rarely personalized their songs; only blues singers like Bessie Smith and Ma Rainey actually gave the impression they had lived through what they were singing. Billie Holiday's...

Top Albums By Billie Holiday

	Name	Artist	Time	Price
1.	Body and Soul (Live At The Philharmo..	Billie Holiday	3:33
2.	Strange Fruit (Live At The Philharmo..	Billie Holiday	2:51
3.	I Cried for You (Live At Carnegie Ha..	Billie Holiday	2:17
4.	Fine and Mellow (Live At Carnegie Ha..	Billie Holiday	3:50
5.	He's Funny That Way (Live At Carnegi..	Billie Holiday	3:22
6.	The Man I Love (Live At Carnegie Hal..	Billie Holiday	3:03
7.	Gee, Baby, Ain't I Good to You? (Liv..	Billie Holiday	2:19
8.	All of Me (Live At Carnegie Hall/194..	Billie Holiday	1:55
9.	Billie's Blues (Live At Carnegie Hal..	Billie Holiday	3:39
10.	Trav'lin' Light (Live At The Shrine ..	Billie Holiday	3:28
11.	He's Funny That Way (Live At The Shr..	Billie Holiday	2:56
12.	Norman Granz Announcement (Live At C..	Norman Granz	0:08
13.	You Better Go Now (Live At Carnegie ..	Billie Holiday	2:55
14.	You're Driving Me Crazy (Live At Car..	Billie Holiday	1:29
15.	There Is No Greater Love (Live At Ca..	Billie Holiday	2:33
16.	I Cover the Waterfront (Live At Carn..	Billie Holiday	2:58
17.	Norman Granz Announcement of Billie ..	Norman Granz	0:28
18.	Announcement By Willis Conover (Live..	Willis Conover	0:53
19.	Announcement By Johnny Mercer (Live ..	Johnny Mercer	0:41
20.	Fanfare from "Oh, Lady Be Good!..	Mal Waldron, Joe Benjamin &..	0:10
21.	Nice Work If You Can Get It (Live At..	Billie Holiday	2:38
22.	Willow Weep for Me (Live At The Newp..	Billie Holiday	3:08
23.	My Man (Live At The Newport Jazz Fes..	Billie Holiday	3:29
24.	Lover, Come Back to Me (Live At The ..	Billie Holiday	2:06
25.	Lady Sings the Blues (Live At The Ne..	Billie Holiday	2:59
26.	What a Little Moonlight Can Do (Live..	Billie Holiday	2:53
27.	Fanfare from "Oh, Lady Be Good!..	Mal Waldron, Joe Benjamin, ..	0:22
28.	Announcement By Leonard Feather (Liv..	Leonard Feather	0:46
29.	I Wished On the Moon (Live from Seve..	Billie Holiday	2:43
30.	Lover Man (Oh, Where Can You Be?) [L..	Billie Holiday	3:01

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