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Lady Hoilday

By Mariah1234

  • Birthdate

    Birthdate
    "Billie Hoilday was born in Baltimore as Eleanora. Billie's mother name was Saddie Harris and the father is supposed to be jazz guitarist Clarence Holiday" ("Billie Holiday").

  • Catholic scool

    Catholic scool
    After Billie Hoilday was sent to a Catholic school after nine months she was soon batized.

  • Parole

    Parole
    "...paroled" to her mother, who had opened a restaurant called the East Side Grill, where she and Holiday worked long hours." ("Billie Holiday").

  • School

    School
    "Dropped out of school at age 11" ("Billie Holiday").

  • On The Move

    On The Move
    "Billie moved to Harlem. At this time she already begun to sing at "house parties" ("Billie Holiday").

  • First Job

    First Job
    "At the age of thirteen Elanora got a job running errands and doing chores at a whorehouse" ("Billie Holiday").

  • Arrested

    Arrested
    "At the age of 14 after coming back to Baltimore Billie and her mother were busted in a whorehouse, and was arrested and sentenced to a workhouse" ("Billie Holiday").

  • Performance

    Performance
    "After being released Billie met her saxophonist, Kenneth Hollon and the two of them performed together at her first club gig, the Grey Dawn in Queens" ("Billie Holiday").

  • Performance

    Performance
    "Between the years of 1930 and 1933, Holiday performed in Harlem clubs and speakeasies..." ("Billie Holiday").

  • First Black Women To...

    First Black Women To...
    "The latter association placed her among the first black women to work with a white orchestra, an unusual arrangement for the times." ("Billie Holiday").

  • Married

    Married
    "She married trombonist Jimmy Monroe." ("Billie Holiday")

  • First Movie

    First Movie
    "She also appeared along with Armstrong in a "jazz movie" entitled New Orleans as a maid" ("Billie Holiday").

  • Affair

    Affair
    "While still married to Monroe, she became romantically involved with trumpeter Joe Guy, who was also her drug dealer, and eventually became his common-law wife." ("Billie Holiday")

  • Divorced

    Divorced
    "She finally divorced Monroe and also split with Guy." (Billie Holiday")

  • Death

    Death
    "In early 1959 she found out that she had cirrhosis of the liver... She died from cirrhosis of the liver on."
    ("Billie Holiday")

  • Citation

    Citation
    http://static-l3.blogcritics.org/11/07/06/163095/billie-holiday-gal1.jpg?t=20110706143829 http://www.pbs.org/jazz/images/biography/b_holiday.jpg http://www.pophistorydig.com/wp-content/uploads/2
    http://ll-media.essence.com/archive/billieh_article.jpg http://www.dance.net/images/i820/289147.422billieholiday7.jpg http://toomuchnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/1303020044-34.jpg http://topics.nytimes.com/topics/reference/timestopics/people/h/billie_holiday/index.html

  • Symbols

    Symbols
    Basket:represents the things that you are holding onto. Billie Holiday holds on to her dreams for along time. By her holding on she gets to where she wants to be. http://www.hazelpta.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/Basket-Question1.gif

  • Animal symbol

    Animal symbol
    BEHEMOTH denotes an aspect in one's life that is larger than life, perhaps overwhelming and too big to handle alone. Everytime she was left alone she messed up something. Billie new that she could do anything alone so thats why this animal represents her. http://www.answersingenesis.org/articles/ka/v6/n4/bible-mention-dinos