Hammond was instrumental in getting Holiday recording work with an up-and-coming clarinetist and bandleader Benny Goodman. READ MORE: 7 Things You May Not Know About Billie Holiday SongsĪt the age of 18, Holiday was discovered by producer John Hammond while she was performing in a Harlem jazz club. She followed her mother, who had moved to New York City in the late 1920s, and worked in a house of prostitution in Harlem for a time.Īround 1930, Holiday began singing in local clubs and renamed herself "Billie" after the film star Billie Dove. A collection of Ol Blue Eyes best holiday interpretations, this particular Christmas collection was released in 2003 by EMI as a digital download. 5 The Sinatra Christmas Album Frank Sinatra. In her difficult early life, Holiday found solace in music, singing along to the records of Bessie Smith and Louis Armstrong. One of the Kings shining moments, this is quite simply still one of the best holiday albums available. According to Donald Clarke's biography, Billie Holiday: Wishing on the Moon, she returned there in 1926 after she had been sexually assaulted. She was returned to her mother's care in August of that year. Only 9 years old at the time, Holiday was one of the youngest girls there. Demi started out as a child actor on Barney & Friends. Houston is one of pop musics best-selling music artists of all-time.
She was then sent to the House of Good Shepherd, a facility for troubled African American girls, in January 1925. Demetria Devonne 'Demi' Lovato was born on Augin Albuquerque, New Mexico to Dianna De La Garza, a former Dallas Cowboys cheerleader, and Patrick Martin Lovato, an engineer and musician, and raised in Dallas, Texas. In 2009, Guinness World Records cited her as the most awarded female act of all time.
Holiday started skipping school, and she and her mother went to court over Holiday's truancy.