Billie Hoildays Biography

Billie Hoilday jouranal

My parents were real young when they had me, my mother only being 13 and my father only being 15.Times were hard but my parents made it work.Dadday was a professional guitar and banjo player. He was always on the road a lot and soon joined a jazz-band with Fletcher Henderson in the early 1930s. My father sent me and my mother money to help us out, but it was not enough. When I turned 10 I was sent to a reformatory and had become a prostitute by the time I was12. I hated selling my body but it brought in money for me and my mother. It was around 1928 or 1929 during the great depression, me and my mother moved to New York City .My mother struggled every day trying to keep food in our stomachs, a roof over our heads and clothes on our backs. When my father came to town, I threaten to call him daddy in front of his girlfriends unless he gave me and my mother money. As a teenager I would sing in New York night clubs. Before me new it I was singing for millions of fans and living the life of a queen. It was the year 1945 and I was married trumpet player named Joe Guy. Together we ran a band but it lost a lot of money. The Business woes, added to chronic depression and dependence on drugs, which my career to an abrupt halt. I final stop using drugs and got back on my feet and sang my heart out.

I am Billie Hoilday

When people say who am I

I just stand up with my head high and say

I am a proud African American Women

I am strong

I am Jazz and Blues

I am Billie Holiday

The art of jazz( A song from Billie Hoilday)

As African Americans migrated to cities like Chicago and New York in search of a better life, they brought something that made them smile and it was called jazz and the blues. Listening and dancing to something that made them smile. Jazz and the blues became part of their culture. For the first time radios and record players were widely available in stores. Jazz went from being played in New Orleans little towns to America's airwaves, dance halls, and living rooms.

Music in 1915

Popular in 1915 was jazz. Some of the songs included

• The trill is gone, By B.B. King


• A fool for you,By Ray Charles


• What a wonderful world, By Louis Armstorng


• St. Louis blues, By Billie Holiday

and many other jazz artists and their music

Think before you speak.

People may doubt

People may doubt what you say ,
but they want doubt what you do.

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Attitude is a little thing that makes a Big difference!

30 years from now

30 years from now it won't matter what shoes you wore or the jeans you walked down the street with,what will matter is who you are.