Unfortunately, some of those issues led to her multiple arrests and untimely death in 1959. Billie ... led to her first commercial release, “Your Mother’s Son In Law.” Holiday then met ...

One of the first to deal with such a crisis was the legendary Billie Holiday ... However, her drug issues didn’t matter in Europe. Holiday enjoyed a very successful tour across the Atlantic ...

“[Louise] was good to Billie,” says Irene Wilson Kitchens, Holiday’s friend and first wife of pianist Teddy ... for whom money was never an issue — “had a lot to do with it.” ...

Billie Holiday walking onto the stage at Carnegie Hall Married three times, her first husband, Jimmy Monroe, likely introduced her to opium. Not long after their 1947 divorce, she was arrested and ...

Within the first two seconds of this song it’s impossible not to be drawn into the spell of Billie Holiday’s voice. Sailing confidently over lush chords by the pianist Oscar Peterson ...

Holiday began skipping so much school that both she and her mother were summoned to court to address the ongoing truancy issue ... When Holiday first arrived in the new city she began working ...