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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.	What a Little Moonlight Can Do	Billie Holiday	2:56
2.	These Foolish Things (Remind Me of Y..	Billie Holiday	3:18
3.	Summertime	Billie Holiday and Her Orch..	2:53
4.	Billie's Blues	Billie Holiday and Her Orch..	2:39
5.	I've Got My Love to Keep Me Warm	Billie Holiday and Her Orch..	2:56
6.	Why Was I Born?	Billie Holiday	2:50
7.	I Must Have That Man	Billie Holiday	2:55
8.	I'll Get By (As Long As I Have You)	Billie Holiday	3:07
9.	Mean to Me	Billie Holiday	3:06
10.	When a Woman Loves a Man	Billie Holiday and Her Orch..	2:23
11.	You Go to My Head	Billie Holiday and Her Orch..	2:52
12.	The Very Thought of You	Billie Holiday and Her Orch..	2:45
13.	I Can't Get Started	Billie Holiday and Her Orch..	2:47
14.	Them There Eyes	Billie Holiday and Her Orch..	2:48
15.	All of Me (Take 2)	Billie Holiday	3:01
16.	God Bless the Child	Billie Holiday and Her Orch..	2:54
17.	Gloomy Sunday	Billie Holiday	3:11
18.	Strange Fruit (1939 Version)	Billie Holiday	3:11	Album Only
19.	Fine and Mellow	Billie Holiday	3:14	Album Only
20.	Lover Man (Oh, Where Can You Be)	Billie Holiday	3:16	Album Only

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