Billie Holiday (born Eleanora Fagan April 7, 1915 – July 17, 1959) was an American jazz singer and songwriter. Nicknamed "Lady Day" by her friend and musical partner Lester Young, Holiday was a seminal influence on jazz and pop singing. Her vocal style, strongly inspired by jazz instrumentalists, pioneered a new way of manipulating phrasing and tempo.

Critic John Bush wrote that she "changed the art of American pop vocals forever". She co-wrote only a few songs, but several of them have become jazz standards, notably "God Bless the Child", "Don't Explain", "Fine and Mellow", and "Lady Sings the Blues". She also became famous for singing jazz standards including "Easy Living", "Good Morning Heartache", and "Strange Fruit".

As an aspiring singer, Lady Day suffered sexual abuse, struggled with a drug habit and encountered racism everywhere she went, but Billie translated all of that pain into some of the most achingly personal songs ever recorded. Billie rose to stardom from a terrible childhood marked by poverty, abandonment and sexual abuse, but she never escaped the effects

In 1935, Billie Holiday had a small role as a woman being abused by her lover in Duke Ellington's short "Symphony in Black: A Rhapsody of Negro Life". In her scene, she sang the song "Saddest Tale."

By the 1950s, Holiday's drug abuse, drinking, and relationships with abusive men caused her health to deteriorate. Her later recordings showed the effects on her voice, as it grew coarse and no longer projected the vibrancy it once had.



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