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Billie Holiday

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Complete Release

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2013 - Lady Sings the Blues

2011 - The Essential Collection

2009 - Strange Fruit

2009 - The Ultimate Collection

2007 - Billie's Blues

2005 - The Complete Verve Studio Master Takes

2001 - Lady Day: The Best of Billie Holiday

2000 - Ken Burns Jazz: Definitive Billie Holiday

1996 - God Bless the Child

1995 - Feel The Blues

1995 - Lady Sings the Blues: The Billie Holiday Story, Volume 4

1995 - Love Me or Leave Me

1995 - Always

1995 - Billie Holiday's Greatest Hits

1993 - The Complete Billie Holiday on Verve 1945-1959

1992 - Ballads

1992 - The Essential Billie Holiday: Songs of Lost Love

1991 - The Essence of Billie Holiday

1990 - The Complete 1951 Storyville Club Sessions

1990 - "Fine and Mellow"

1985 - God Bless The Child

1982 - Don't Explain

1958 - Lover Man

1958 - Lady in Satin

1958 - Stay With Me

1958 - All or Nothing at All

1957 - Songs for Distingué Lovers

1957 - Body and Soul

1935 - If You Were Mine

0 - Billie's Love Songs

0 - Eresco Jazz Session

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1 Female

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Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

Genre
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Jazz

Style
Jazz

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Born

1915

Active
1933 to 1959

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Most Loved Tracks

	Track	Last.FM Listens	Youtube views	Loves
	Strange Fruit			2 users
	All of Me			1 users
	Easy Living			1 users
	God Bless the Child			1 users
	My Man			1 users

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Billie Holiday (born Eleanora Harris 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 had 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 Holiday "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 "Easy Living", "Good Morning Heartache", and "Strange Fruit", a protest song which became one of her standards and was made famous with her 1939 recording.