Billie Holiday

Birthday:: 04/07/1915
Place of birth:: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA:
Biography:: Billie Holiday, born Eleanora Fagan, was an American jazz singer with a career spanning nearly thirty years. Nicknamed "Lady Day" by her friend and music partner Lester Young, Holiday had a seminal influence on jazz music and pop singing. Her vocal style, strongly inspired by jazz instrumentalists, pioneered a new way of manipulating phrasing and tempo. She was known for her vocal delivery and improvisational skills. Billie Holiday appeared in four feature films and many television shows.

Credits

	Die magischen Stimmen des Pop (2021) as Self (archive)
	Billie (2020) as self
	The Apollo (2019) as Self (archive footage)
	Billie Holiday: A Sensation (2015) as Self (archive footage)
	Queens of Jazz: The Joy and Pain of the Jazz Divas (2013) as Self (archive footage)
	Billie Holiday: Strange Fruit (2007) as Herself
	Jazz Voice - The Ladies sing Jazz Vol.1 (2006) as
	Billie Holiday: The Ultimate Collection (2005) as Herself
	Sarah Vaughan & Other Jazz Divas (2005) as
	Strange Fruit (2002) as Self
	It's Black Entertainment (2002) as Self (archive footage)
	Billie on Billie (2002) as Herself
	Benny Carter: Symphony in Riffs (1990) as Self (archive footage)
	Lady Day: The Many Faces of Billie Holiday (1990) as
	Artie Shaw: Time Is All You've Got (1985) as Self (archive footage)
	The Long Night of Lady Day (1984) as
	Brother, Can You Spare a Dime? (1975) as Self (archive footage)
	'Sugar Chile' Robinson, Billie Holiday, Count Basie and His Sextet (1951) as
	New Orleans (1947) as Endie
	Symphony in Black: A Rhapsody of Negro Life (1935) as Self - Blues Singer (uncredited)
	Emperor Jones (1933) as Extra in Nightclub Scene