Holiday, Billie, 1915-1959 (Personal Name)

Lady sings the blues, 1956: (Billie Holiday with William Dufty)

James, B. Billie Holiday, 1984: p. 16 (name originally Eleanora Holiday) p. 63-64 (hospitalized 5/31/59 under her married name Eleanora McKay)

Metropolitan Opera House jam session, p1991: container (Billy Holiday)

New Grove dict. of jazz (Holiday, Billie (Fagan, Eleanora; Lady Day); b. Apr. 7, 1915; d. July 17, 1959, New York; singer, daughter of Clarence Holiday)

Wikipedia, March 31, 2016 (Eleanora Fagan (Apr. 7, 1915, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania - July 17, 1959, New York City, New York), professionally known as Billie Holiday, was an American jazz musician and singer-songwriter with a career spanning nearly thirty years; nicknamed "Lady Day" was known for her vocal delivery and improvisational skills; after a turbulent childhood, Holiday began singing in nightclubs around Harlem; throughout the 1930s and 1940s, Holiday booked mainstream success with labels such as Columbia Records and Decca Records; by the late 1940s, however, Holiday was beset with legal troubles and drug abuse. After a short prison sentence, Holiday performed a sold-out concert at Carnegie Hall. However, due to her drug and alcohol problems, her reputation deteriorated; Holiday died of cirrhosis of the liver in 1959) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billie_Holiday