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born. Eleanora Fagan Gough, 7th April, 1915 in Philadelphia, Pennysylvannia, U.S.A. died. 17th July, 1959 in New York, New York State, U.S.A. Billie Holiday was truely a Jazz Giant and Queen of the Blues. I knew that she descended into the trap that drugs can lure a person into. I even wondered whether she should be sitting comfortably at a site based around soul music? Well, there seemed many parallels in her life to that of Marvin Gaye. So here we go... Billie Holiday\\\\\\\'s turbulant life began in Baltimore, on 7th April, 1915, when she was born Eleanora Fagan Gough. Her father, Clarence Holiday, was a teenaged jazz guitarist and banjo player later to play in Fletcher Henderson\\\\\\\'s Orchestra. He never married her mother, Sadie Fagan, and left while his daughter was still a baby. Eleanora\\\\\\\'s mother was also a young teenager at the time, and whether because of inexperience or neglect, often left her daughter with uncaring relatives. Holiday was sentenced to C...