Billie Holiday a biography
Presents a biography of Billie Holiday, tracing the life of the famous jazz singer, from her youth in Philadelphia and Harlem to her death at the age of forty-four from complications that were the result of her heavy use of drugs and alcohol.
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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Westport, Conn. :
Greenwood Press,
2007.
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| Series: | Greenwood biographies.
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Table of Contents:
- Eleanora
- Billie
- Ladies and gentlemen-- Billie Holiday
- A rising star
- On the road
- "Strange fruit"
- Life as Billie Holiday
- A slow descent into hell
- Jazz's falling star
- The spotlight dims.
