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THE DAY OF HIS BIRTH
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"In 1928 she moved with her mother from Baltimore, Md. (where she had spent her childhood), she found a job singing in a Harlem nightclub" ("Holiday, BIllie").
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"In 1933, Holiday made her first recordings, with Benny Goodman and others." Two years later, a series of recordings with Teddy Wilson and members of Count Basie's band gave her wider recognition and launched her career as the lead singer of jazz of his time "(" Vacaciones, Billie ").
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in this year he joined an orchestra which was called count basie
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Its most successful album was the one of extana fruit
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already later in his career, I incur sabotage in his acting career
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Holiday fue arrestado por una violación de narcóticos y pasó un año en un centro de rehabilitación
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"In 1956 she wrote an autobiography, Lady Sings the Blues (with William Dufty), that was made into a motion picture in 1972"
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"From 1944 to 1950, Holiday recorded for Decca, but alcohol and narcotis were destroying her voice and her body. Soon after her last performance in May 1959, she was hospitalized with a kidney alment. She died on July 17, 1959 not long after being arrested in her hospital bed, perhaps unjustly, on a narcotics change. She was 4
