Billie Holiday was a jazz legend who also composed music, acted, and wrote songs as well as a book during her time. Her birth name was Eleanor Gough Harris, but she was better known as Lady Day. Billie Holiday was one of the most influential jazz singers of all time, and experienced many thriving years before she succumbed to the battles of heroin addiction. For a complete history and biography of Lady Day, visit Biography, CMGWW and Billie-Holiday. VH1 also offers much information about Holiday. For pictures, trivia and more, go to Netglimpse, About, and Music at Yahoo.
Billie Holiday enjoyed a successful career for many years, which you can read about at Wikipedia. Google offers a comprehensive timeline that shows each event in her life by the year. For downloads of her music, go to Mp3. To read lyrics from all her songs, visit the following: Always on the Run, Lyrics Freak, Sing 365, and Metro Lyrics.
Many pictures of Holiday can be found online. Go to Fan Pix and
Star Pulse to view many pictures taken during her career. At Music Photos, visitors will not only enjoy many photos of Holiday, but also information on the singer, as well as trivia, facts, quotes and information about tribute sights.
For discography information, visit Google, where you can choose each album for viewing and/or purchasing. Music City also offers a list of all albums done by Lady Day.
Billie Holiday was immortalized on a postage stamp in 1994 in the "Honoring Women" category. To view the stamp, go to Whitman Books.