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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.	Keeps On Rainin'	Billie Holiday	3:16
2.	Gimme a Pigfoot and a Bottle of Beer	Billie Holiday	2:45
3.	Baby, I Don't Cry Over You	Billie Holiday	3:13
4.	My Sweet Hunk O' Trash	Billie Holiday & Louis ..	3:20
5.	Somebody's On My Mind	Billie Holiday	2:58
6.	Guilty	Billie Holiday	3:13
7.	The Blues Are Brewin'	Billie Holiday	3:04
8.	Do Your Duty	Billie Holiday	3:16
9.	Baby Get Lost	Billie Holiday	3:15
10.	You Can't Lose a Broken Heart	Billie Holiday & Louis ..	3:15
11.	Now or Never	Billie Holiday	3:18
12.	Big Stuff	Billie Holiday	2:32

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