Billie Holiday was an American jazz and swing music singer nicknamed “Lady Day” by her friend and music partner, Lester Young. She was a talented jazz and swing music singer who had an innovative 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 born to her parents on April 7, 1915, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
but passed away on July 17, 1959, in NYC Health + Hospitals/Metropolitan., New York, United States.
Billie Holiday husband
She was a married woman as of her time of death. She was married thrice. She was first married to Jimmy Monroe. They were married from 1941 to 1947. After a first failed marriage, she tried the knot with Joe Guy in 1951. They parted ways in 1957.
That same year after parting ways with her second husband, 1957, she married Louis McKay, They were married until she passed away in 1959.
Billie Holiday children
Holiday never had children.
Billie Holiday parents
She is the daughter of Sarah Julia Fagan and Clarence Holiday – an American musician.
Billie Holiday siblings
She is from a family of two siblings, all girls, hence she has a sister who has been identified as Eva Miller.
