In 1938, she immigrated to the United States and lived in New York City until her death in 1986. Being a solo act gave Holiday the freedom to record whats considered the most important and most controversial song of her career: Strange Fruit. Written by Abel Meeropol under the alias Lewis Allan, and released in 1939, the song is a poetically brutal commentary on racial injustice, particularly in describing the lynching of black people in the South. Hascall took Huckleberry to the ground and sat on himwhile Saltz bound his hands and feet, then Fagan kicked him in the face while wearingboots, police said. } elementType: "script", I think she felt the pain of someones struggles. So she, Hascall and Saltzplanned to give Huckleberry a bad dose of heroin that would incapacitate him while they entered his apartment and stole the equipment, police said. Monroe would become Holidays first husband, whom she married in 1941. Her romances didnt get any better. Midgett says that Holiday would talk for hours about how she started in prostitution when she was 13 years old. Jones insists: She didnt leave the band. And the only way to save her was to have her knocked out by the government. George H. White, who was a narcotics agent at the time, says Holidays lavish lifestyle also made her a target for the FBI and other law enforcement: Billie flaunted her way of living.. Billie Holiday - Wikipedia Her closest friend named Lester Young had facilitated her with this name. Her parents were neither married, nor living together and Clarence left the family when Billie was just a child. Great Blues Voices: The Endless Trials of Eleanora Fagan I want to share with you some Ways to improve your reach to more customers. She had four brothers and sisters: James, William, George, and Susan. Considering all the trauma that Holiday had when she was a child (she was also raped more than once when she was a teenager), its no surprise that she ended up way that she did. } Several people in the documentary say that New York City doormen (especially on 52nd Street) would regularly supply her with drugs. Holiday is considered as one of the most peerless voices in jazz music till date. Her husband died in 1931 and Fagan moved to Paris in 1933. The couple had five children: John D. Jr. (1874-1937), Eleanor (1878-1947), Abby (1880-1976), Grace (1882-1962), and Alta (1885-1962). Basies saxophonist Lester Young is credited with giving Holiday the nickname Lady Day. Sarah Julia Sadie Fagan (18961945) FamilySearch An epilogue at the end of the documentary mentions that because of the destruction of police records, investigations into Lindas death made during the film proved inconclusive., In the documentary, Luftman explains why her sister wanted to write a Billie Holiday biography: Even thought they came from totally different backgrounds, I think she really identified with Billie.
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