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Billie Holiday
Abandoned by her parents as a baby, former teenage prostitute
Billy Holiday's troubled upbringing in 1920's Maryland remains
pivotal to one of the greatest jazz voices of the 20th century.
Discovered singing in the clubs of Harlem in the 1930's,
Holiday embarked on a musical career that was dogged by personal
turmoil, including heroin addiction and an abusive marriage to a
Mafia enforcer.
She died in July 1959, leaving behind a legacy of performances
that mirrored a lifetime of drugs, violence and heartache.
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