![]() ![]() ![]() In this period Billie Holiday sang in New York nightclubs, developing her vocal skills, stage presence and command with the public. Her musical beginnings were between 1930-1932. From this school Billie managed to escape and in 1927 she moved with her mother to New Jersey and then to New York where she worked as a prostitute. This origin made Billie a lonely girl who, at the age of 10, and after admitting she was raped, she was sent to a Catholic school. In Holiday's case, she was fathered by a mother who was only 13 years old and a bassist and jazz guitarist father who was only 15 years old. Her life is just as dramatic as that of many jazzmen of the last century, in which a principle of economic poverty, dysfunctional families and the powerful talent that immortalizes them abound. ![]() Billie Holiday was born in Philadelphia on Apand died in New York on Jof cirrhosis of the liver. ![]()
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