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Musician
Alongside Ella Fitzgerald, Billie Holiday is considered one of the greatest Jazz singers of all time and was one of the first African American singers to perform with white musicians.
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Billie Holiday's grandfather was one of 17 children of a black Virginia slave and a white Irish plantation owner. Her mother was only 13 when she was born.
The future "Lady Day" first heard the music of Louis Armstrong and Bessie Smith on a Victrola at Alice Dean's, the Baltimore "house of ill repute" where she ran errands and scrubbed floors as a young girl.
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"If I'm going to sing like someone else, then I don't need to sing at all."
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