# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/billie-holiday
# Generated: 2026-08-31T13:54:56.192Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/billie-holiday"
name: "Billie Holiday"
slug: "billie-holiday"
description: "She bent phrasing and tempo the way horn players did, treating her voice as an instrument and rewriting the rules for pop singing. \"Lady Day\" turned jazz standards into something rawer and more personal, and the world hasn't stopped listening."
tagline: "American jazz singer (1915–1959)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Portrait_of_Billie_Holiday_and_Mister%2C_Downbeat%2C_New_York%2C_N.Y.%2C_ca._Feb._1947_(LOC%2C_5020400274%2C_cropped).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
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category:
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profileType:
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  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1915-04-07"
deathDate: "1959-07-17"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  historical:           27.606948
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  sourceConfidence:     90
  profileCompleteness:  90
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
totalFollowers: 206000
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Born Eleanora Fagan in 1915, Holiday survived a turbulent childhood and began singing in Harlem nightclubs, where producer John Hammond heard her and got her signed to Brunswick in 1935. Her collaboration with Teddy Wilson produced "What a Little Moonlight Can Do", a hit that became a jazz standard, and through the 1930s and 1940s she had mainstream success on Columbia and Decca. By the late 1940s legal troubles and drug abuse landed her in prison, but she walked out to a sold-out Carnegie Hall concert and kept performing through the 1950s with two more sold-out Carnegie shows. Her voice had changed, her final recordings drew mixed reaction, and Lady in Satin arrived in 1958. She died of cirrhosis and heart failure in July 1959 at 44, leaving four posthumous Grammys and a permanent seat in the canon — fourth on Rolling Stone's greatest singers list, an early Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee, the voice NPR named among the fifty greatest ever.