Billie Holiday was a singer and jazz vocalist. Billie Holiday Original name was Eleanora Fagan. She was born on April 7, 1915in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Some sources from Baltimore, Maryland said her birth certificate reportedly reads “Elinore Harris.”At the age of 18 Billie Holiday was discovered by a producer named John Hammond while she was performing in a Harlem jazz club. Hammond was getting Holiday recording work with an up coming clarinetist and bandleader Benny Goodman. With Goodman she sang vocals for several tracks, including her first commercial release “Your Mother’s Son-In-Law” and the 1934 top ten hit “Riffin’ the Scotch.” Billie Holiday went on to record with jazz pianist Teddy Wilson and others in 1935.Billie Holiday influence the Harlem Renaissance by becoming one of the first African American Women Blues Singer. She made several singles, including “What a Little Moonlight Can Do” and “Miss Brown to You.” That same year, Holiday appeared with Duke Ellington in the film Symphony in Black.
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