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Billie Holiday died in Metropolitan Hospital, New York, on Friday, July 17, 1959, in the bed in which she had been arrested for illegal possession of narcotics a little more than a month before, as she lay mortally ill; in the room from which a police guard had been removed – by court order – only a few hours before her death.
Jun 25, 2021 · Billy Holiday passed away on 17th July 1959 due to complications caused by cirrhosis of the liver. Many believe that the underlying cause of Billie’s death was persecution by men and the government. Billie Holiday didn’t have an easy upbringing. On top of the financial struggles, Billie was sexually assaulted as a young girl.
May 30, 2024 · Billie Holiday (born April 7, 1915, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.—died July 17, 1959, New York City, New York) was an American jazz singer, one of the greatest from the 1930s to the ’50s. Eleanora (her preferred spelling) Harris was the daughter of Clarence Holiday, a professional musician who for a time played guitar with the Fletcher ...
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
- Billie Holiday was one of the greatest jazz singers from the 1930s to the ’50s. She had no formal musical training, but, with an instinctive sense...
- As a singer, Holiday was known for her dramatic intensity, which could render the most banal lyric profound. Among the songs identified with her we...
- Holiday began her career singing in a Harlem nightclub and made her first recordings in 1933, with Benny Goodman and others. Two years later a seri...
Apr 10, 2021 · In 1959 she collapsed in Manhattan and was taken to the hospital where, according to Hari, Holiday told a friend she thought the Feds — who never stopped hounding her over her drug use, in an effort to silence her — were going to kill her at the hospital.
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Billie Holiday, famed jazz singer, died yesterday in Metropolitan Hospital. Her age was 44. The immediate cause of death was given as congestion of the lungs complicated by heart...
Apr 3, 2014 · According to Donald Clarke's biography, Billie Holiday: Wishing on the Moon, she returned there in 1926 after she had been sexually assaulted. In her difficult early life, Holiday found...
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Jun 21, 2021 · After six weeks in the hospital, Billie Holiday died on July 17, 1959. The official cause of death was heart failure resulting from lung congestion. She was nearly penniless at her death, save for the $750 in cash strapped to her leg — a down payment from a publisher for a new memoir.
