Billie Holiday is one of if not the most famous of all jazz singers. ... Billies father who was also a musician left the family when Billie was young and went off to play with Fletcher Henderson and others. ... Billie moved to New York at age 12 were she became a prostitute and worked scrubbing floors. In 1930 she convinced a club owner to let her sing on one of the open mic nights where she first took on the stage her new name after the film star Billie Dove. ... Billie used a lot of Louis Armstrongs swing and Bessie Smiths sound, which created her own creative sound.
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