B a r o q u e

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The contrasting themes and traditions in Classical and Baroque Sculpture

Musician

Billie Holiday

On April 7, 1915 Billie Holiday was born Eleanora Fagan in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Holiday grew up in an unstable home for most of her younger years. Her mother, Sadie, was just a teenager and her father, Clarence Holiday, rarely made appearances in her life. Due to skipping school, Holiday was sent to a school for troubled girls at the age of nine. Just a year later, she was returned to her mother due to a reported sexual abuse. Holiday found peace in music when her life was too much for her. During the 1920's, Holiday moved to New York with her mother and worked in a house of prostitution in Harlem. She then began singing in clubs and renamed her self "Billie" after film star, Billie Dove.