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.