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Billie Holiday: Jazz Icon and Legacy by laurie fabbri is a document available to read on EtoBox.

Billie Holiday was an American jazz singer with a nearly 30 year career. Nicknamed "Lady Day", she had a great influence on jazz and pop singing through her vocal style which was inspired by jazz instrumentalists and pioneered new ways of manipulating phrasing and tempo. After struggling as a child and beginning her career singing in Harlem nightclubs, by the late 1930s she had mainstream success on labels like Brunswick, Columbia, and Decca. However, by the late 1940s she suffered from legal and drug probl

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