Billie Holiday
Biography
Billie Holiday, born Eleanora Fagan, was an American jazz singer with a career spanning nearly thirty years. Nicknamed "Lady Day" by her friend and music partner Lester Young, Holiday had a seminal 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 known for her vocal delivery and improvisational skills. Billie Holiday appeared in four feature films and many television shows.
Known For
Jazz
This Is Pop
The Apollo
It's Black Entertainment
Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?
New Orleans
Symphony in Black: A Rhapsody of Negro Life
Emperor Jones
All Movies (21)
- The Magic Voices of Pop2021 · as Self (archive)
- Billie2020 · as self
- The Apollo2019 · as Self (archive footage)
- Billie Holiday: A Sensation2015 · as Self (archive footage)
- Queens of Jazz: The Joy and Pain of the Jazz Divas2013 · as Self (archive footage)
- Billie Holiday: Strange Fruit2007 · as Herself
- Jazz Voice - The Ladies sing Jazz Vol.12006
- Billie Holiday: The Ultimate Collection2005 · as Herself
- Sarah Vaughan & Other Jazz Divas2005
- Strange Fruit2002 · as Self
- It's Black Entertainment2002 · as Self (archive footage)
- Billie on Billie2002 · as Herself
- Benny Carter: Symphony in Riffs1990 · as Self (archive footage)
- Lady Day: The Many Faces of Billie Holiday1990
- Artie Shaw: Time Is All You've Got1985 · as Self (archive footage)
- The Long Night of Lady Day1984
- Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?1975 · as Self (archive footage)
- 'Sugar Chile' Robinson, Billie Holiday, Count Basie and His Sextet1951
- New Orleans1947 · as Endie
- Symphony in Black: A Rhapsody of Negro Life1935 · as Self - Blues Singer (uncredited)
- Emperor Jones1933 · as Extra in Nightclub Scene
All TV Shows (2)
- This Is Pop2021 · as Self (archive footage)
- Jazz2001 · as Self (archive footage)