Lady Day, a century after her birth. By Yo Zushi In January 1920, when Eleanora Fagan Gough was four, Prohibition began in the United States. Across the country, more than 1,500 federal agents tasked ...

The estate claims to be the sole survivor of the great singer, who was born Eleanora Fagan Gough, and died at 44 in 1959, leaving no children and no will. Holiday's husband, McKay, died in 1980.

Eleanora Fagan is one of the most influential jazz vocalists of the past century, rising to fame in the 1930s with a voice as emotive as a raspy saxophone. Known more famously as Billie Holiday ...

NEW YORK — One-hundred years ago next Tuesday, Eleanora Fagan was born into poverty in Philadelphia. She would only live to be 44, but Billie Holiday, as she later became known, would have an ...

Born Eleanora Fagan, the illegitimate child of Sadie Fagan and Clarence Holiday, in Philadelphia. Both of her parents were still their teens when she was born. Soon after her birth, Sadie Fagan re ...

Can’t let anybody mistake you for that broken, misused little girl: Eleanora Fagan. No. Let there be no confusion. Not in the audience or in your old man, in the maître d’ or the floor ...

Holiday, born Eleanora Fagan, was born into hard times. She was raised in Baltimore in early 1900s segregation. As Billie Holiday, she sang the blues in a style that eclipsed the artists of her day.

“One of the most influential voices of all time, Billie Holiday, was born Eleanora Fagan and she died on July 17, 1959 [at Metropolitan Hospital in New York] from alcohol and drug-related ...