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Billie Holiday was an American jazz singer and songwriter, born on April 7, 1915, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She began her career in the early 1930s, performing in various nightclubs in Harlem. In 1933, she caught the attention of a producer who signed her to a record label in 1935, leading to her first recordings. That same year, she made her film debut and continued to appear in movies throughout the 1940s. During the late 1930s, she collaborated with notable jazz artists. However, by the 1950s, her voice began to deteriorate due to personal struggles, including unhappy relationships, heroin use, and excessive drinking. In May 1959, she collapsed and was hospitalized for liver and heart disease, where she was arrested for heroin possession while gravely ill. Billie Holiday passed away on July 17, 1959, in New York City. She was posthumously inducted into the Blues Hall of Fame in 1991 and the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2000 as an Early Influence.

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