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Billie Holiday (born Eleanora Harris April 7, 1915 – July 17, 1959) was an American jazz singer and songwriter. Nicknamed "Lady Day" by her friend and musical partner Lester Young, Holiday had a seminal influence on jazz and pop singing. Her vocal style, strongly inspired by jazz instrumentalists, pioneered a new way of manipulating phrasing and tempo. Critic John Bush wrote that Holiday "changed the art of American pop vocals forever. " She co-wrote only a few songs, but several of them have become jazz standards, notably "God Bless the Child", "Don't Explain", "Fine and Mellow", and "Lady Sings the Blues". She also became famous for singing "Easy Living", "Good Morning Heartache", and "Strange Fruit", a protest song which became one of her standards and was made famous with her 1939 recording. Music critic Robert Christgau called her "uncoverable, possibly the greatest singer of the century".

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Discography

Billie Holiday Sings Standards
Essentiel Jazz, Volume I, 1994
The Legacy 1933-1958, 1991
Gold
Lady Sings the Blues: Original Sessions 1937-1947, 1995
Lady in Satin, 2009
God Bless the Child, 1996
Billie's Blues, 1988
The Gold Collection: 40 Classic Performances, 2001
That Ole Devil Called Love, 2001
Essentials, 1998
Jazz Masters, 100 Anos De Swing, 1996
Swing Brother Swing (Collectables), 2003
The Masters (disc 1), 1997
Verve Silver Collection, 1984
Billie Holiday
Midnite Jazz & Blues: The Voice of Jazz, 2000
An Introduction to Billie Holiday: Her Best Recordings 1935-1942, 1993
Midnite Jazz & Blues: Lady Day, 2000
Viva! Jazz Diva!
Ken Burns Jazz: Definitive Billie Holiday, 2000
First Issue: The Great American Song Book, 1994
The Collection, 1993
Remixed & Reimagined, 2007
Lover Come Back to Me, 1990
The Great Billie Holiday, 2000
A Musical Romance, 2002
Volume 6: 1938, 1994
The Lady Sings, 2001
The Complete Billie Holiday, 2009
Mitos do jazz, Volume 16: Billie Holiday, 2012
Love Songs, 1996
BD Jazz, 2003
Last Recording
Collection
The Quintessential Billie Holiday, Volume 9: 1940-1942
More Priceless Jazz, 1998
The Diva Series, 2003
Billie Holliday and Her Orchestra, 1988
Body and Soul
The Chronological Classics: Billie Holiday 1944, 1995
20th Century Masters: The Millennium Collection: The Best of Billie Holiday, 2002
Cocktail Hour, 1999
Lady Sings the Blues, 1956
Ballads, 1992
The Complete Decca Recordings, 1991
Billie's Best, 1992
The Voice of Jazz: The Complete Recordings 1933-1940
Lady Day: The Complete Billie Holiday on Columbia (1933-1944), 2001
Verve Jazz Masters 47: Billie Holiday Sings Standards, 1995
The Ultimate Collection
The Great Jazz Vocalists (disc 1)
Lady Sings the Blues: The Billie Holiday Story, Volume 4, 1995
If You Were Mine, 1995
The Quintessential Billie Holiday, Volume 5: 1937-1938
Portrait, 2005
Coleção Folha grandes vozes, Volume 15: Billie Holiday, 2012
Jazz, 2000
Complete Billie Holiday Lester Young 1937-1946, 1998
As Time Goes By, 1994
Songs for Distingué Lovers, 1957
The Best of Billie Holiday: The Master Takes and Singles, 2008
God Bless the Child: The Very Best of Billie Holiday, 2006
A Multimedia Record
The Essential Collection: Billie Holiday, 1995
Retrospective, 2006
Very Best of Billie Holiday, 2000
Stormy Weather
You Go to My Head, 2002
The Man I Love, 2002
Billie Holliday With Lester Young: Lady Day & Prez 1937-1941, 1994
The Essential Billie Holiday
Lady's Decca Days, Volume One, 1988
The Lady Sings the Blues, 1995
A Lady Sings The Blues, 2008
All of Me, 2003
Love Songs 2, 2003
Jazz & Blues, 1998
Time on My Hands
The Chronological Classics: Billie Holiday 1945-1948, 1999
The Chronological Classics: Billie Holiday 1940-1942, 1993
The Quintessential Billie Holiday, Volume 1: 1933-1935, 1987
The Best of Billie Holiday, 2001
Tenderly, 2004
Jazz Greats, Volume 1: Billie Holiday: All of Me, 1996
The Essential Collection
1955-01: Cologne, Germany
The Classic Decade: 1935-1945, 2001
The Cream of Billie Holiday, 2001
Billie Holiday With Teddy Wilson & His Orchestra
Lover Man, 1951
Jazz Ladies: Billie's Blues (disc 1)
Guilty, 1999
Summertime - The Best of Billie Holiday
The Complete Billie Holiday on Verve 1945-1959, 1993
Stay With Me, 1959
Singin' the Blues
This Is Gold: Billie Holiday, 2005
Billie's Blues - Best of Billie Holiday, 2000
Lady's Decca Days, Volume Two, 1988
Coleção Folha clássicos do jazz, Volume 12, 2007
Just Jazz: The Original Authentic Recordings, 2005
All or Nothing at All, 1995
A Portrait of an Artist Through Her Quintessential Recordings, 2007
A Profile of Billie Holiday, 1996
Blue Billie, 1993
Strange Fruit, 1989
The Very Best, 2001
16 Most Requested Songs, 1993
Greatest Hits
The Complete 1951 Storyville Club Sessions, 1990
Volume 4: 1937, 1992
The Billie Holiday Collection, 1988
V-Disc: A Musical Contribution by America's Best for Our Armed Forces Overseas, 1998
Verve Jazz Masters 12, 1994
ICON: Love Songs, 2001
I Wish I Had You
1949-1952 Radio and TV Broadcasts
The Billie Holiday Songbook, 1986
Legendary Unissued & Rare Masters (1952-58)
The Chronological Classics: Billie Holiday 1949-1951, 2002
1953-56 Radio and TV Broadcasts, 1993
Lady in Autumn: The Best of the Verve Years, 1991
The Essential Billie Holiday: Live at Carnegie Hall, 1995
The Complete 1933-1944 Studio Recordings Master Takes, Volume 3: 1937-1938, 2004
Love Me or Leave Me, 1995
Forever Gold, 1990
Lady Day: The Best of Billie Holiday, 2001
Greatest Hits, Volume 1
1952-1955, 1992
The Definitive Collection 1939-1948
Feel the Blues, 1995
The Very Best of Billie Holiday, 1999
The Quintessential Billie Holiday, Volume 4: 1937
A Portrait of Billie Holiday, 1997
Billie Holiday's Greatest Hits, 1996
Holiday Romance, 1986
The Essential Billie Holiday: Songs of Lost Love
Vol. 4 "You're My Thrill" Original 1944-1949 Recordings, 2004
The Revival of the Jazz, 1991
The Quintessential Billie Holiday, Volume 7: 1938-1939
The Quintessential Billie Holiday, Volume 2
Lady Day & Pres 1937-1941, 1995
Volume 5: 1937-1938, 1992
The Quintessential Billie Holiday, Volume 8: 1939-1940
Billie Holiday, Volume II, 1983
Complete Edition, Volume 3: 1934-1937, 1992
The Chronological Classics: Billie Holiday 1952, 2003
The Essence of Billie Holiday, 2006
The Legendary Billie Holiday
The Essential Recordings
The Complete Commodore Recordings, 1997
Golden Legends, 1999
The Essential Billie Holiday: Carnegie Hall Concert, 1989
The Legend of Billie Holliday, 1999
Jazz & Blues Collection, Volume 14, 1995
Solitude: Billie Holiday Story, Vol. 2, 1993
Singin' Her Greatest Songs, 2007
Midnite Jazz & Blues: Angel of Harlem, 2000
Always, 1995
Timeless Classics, 2003
Fine & Mellow
The Essential Hits, 2004
Me Myself and I, 1995
My Man (1935-1937)
Jazz Ballads 12, 2004
This Is Jazz 32: Billie Holiday Sings Standards, 1998
Lady Day: The Complete Billie Holiday on Columbia (1933–1944), 2009
Midnite Jazz & Blues: Easy to Love, 2001
Volume 2: 1936-1937, 1991
Night & Day, 2005
Don't Explain
Holiday for Lovers, 2002
From the Original Decca Masters, 1986
Volume 1: 1933-1936, 1991
Lady Day: The Very Best of Billie Holiday, 1997
The Man I Love: 1937-1939, 1994
Billie Holiday (disc 1), 2005
The Complete Verve Studio Master Takes, 2005
Lady Day: The Master Takes and Singles, 2007
Compact Jazz: Billie Holiday, 1987
Billie Holiday Live, 1990
God Bless the Blues, 1998
Ultimate Billie Holiday, 1997
The Commodore Master Takes, 2000
Blue Moon, 2003
Fine and Mellow, 1979
The Immortal Lady Day, Volume 1
Holiday Blues
Storyville Masters of Jazz, Volume 3: Billie Holiday, 1994
Memories of Lady Day

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Song	They Can't Take That Away From Me
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