This jazz singer was nicknamed “Lady Day”
- Billie Holiday
- Ella Fitzgerald
- Lena Horne
- Nina Simone
Billie Holiday. Holiday was born Eleanora Fagan in 1915 and was known professionally as Billie Holiday. Lady Day was one of the most important pop singers of the Jazz age. She died at age 44 of a drug over dose.
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