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Billie Holiday

1915 - 1959

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Billie Holiday (born Eleanora Fagan; April 7, 1915 – July 17, 1959) was an American jazz and swing music singer. Nicknamed "Lady Day" by her friend and music partner, Lester Young, Holiday made significant contributions to jazz music and pop singing. Her vocal style, strongly influenced by jazz instrumentalists, inspired a new way of manipulating phrasing and tempo. Holiday was known for her vocal delivery and improvisational skills. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Billie Holiday is the 78th most popular singer (down from 70th in 2019), the 507th most popular biography from United States (down from 407th in 2019) and the 34th most popular American Singer.

Billie Holiday was a jazz singer who is most famous for her songs "God Bless the Child" and "Strange Fruit."

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Among singers, Billie Holiday ranks 78 out of 4,381. Before her are Eminem, Harry Nilsson, Jennifer Lopez, Stevie Wonder, John Lydon, and Ian Gillan. After her are Ice Cube, Françoise Hardy, Salvatore Adamo, Amália Rodrigues, Sarah Vaughan, and Miriam Makeba.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1915, Billie Holiday ranks 20. Before her are W. Arthur Lewis, Eli Wallach, David Rockefeller, Yitzhak Shamir, Paul Samuelson, and Clifford Shull. After her are Hu Yaobang, Sviatoslav Richter, John Vorster, Saul Bellow, Aung San, and Robert A. Dahl. Among people deceased in 1959, Billie Holiday ranks 12. Before her are Frank Lloyd Wright, Cecil B. DeMille, Ante Pavelić, Edward Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax, Gérard Philipe, and Bohuslav Martinů. After her are Raymond Chandler, Heitor Villa-Lobos, Boris Vian, D. F. Malan, William Halsey Jr., and Shirō Ishii.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Billie Holiday ranks 507 out of 20,380. Before her are James Fenimore Cooper (1789), John Tyler (1790), Miles Davis (1926), Theodore William Richards (1868), Gene Kelly (1912), and William Howard Stein (1911). After her are Jack Kerouac (1922), Jessica Lange (1949), Katherine Johnson (1918), John Lithgow (1945), Marsha Hunt (1917), and Ice Cube (1969).

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Among SINGERS In United States

Among singers born in United States, Billie Holiday ranks 34. Before her are Kurt Cobain (1967), Ella Fitzgerald (1917), Eminem (1972), Harry Nilsson (1941), Jennifer Lopez (1969), and Stevie Wonder (1950). After her are Ice Cube (1969), Sarah Vaughan (1924), Prince (1958), The Notorious B.I.G. (1972), Steven Tyler (1948), and Glen Campbell (1936).

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