She changed her name to "Billie Holiday" because of her admiration for a film star named "Billie Dove."- Her contribution to the Harlem Renaissance is that she sung with many jazz musicians and Louis Armstrong during that period of time.- Eleanora Fagan, professionally known as Billie Holiday, was an African American jazz singer with a career in music leading up to 30 years.- Lester Young was her friend and music partner. Who nicknamed her "Lady Day." Holiday had a productive influence on jazz music and pop singing. Her vocal style sounded outstanding to many jazz instrumentalists. It pioneered a new way of manipulating phrasing and tempo. She was known for her vocal delivery and improvisational skills.- Eleanora Fagan was born in Philadelphia. She was the daughter of an unwed teenage couple Sarah Julia "Sadie" Fagan and Clarence Holiday. Her mother(Sarah) moved to Philadelphia at age 19 after she was evicted from her parents' home in the Sandtown-Winchester neighborhood of Baltimore, Maryland for becoming pregnant. With no support from her parents, she made arrangements with her older, married half-sister Eva Miller for Eleanora(Billie Holiday) to stay with her in Baltimore. Not long after Eleanora was born, Clarence abandoned his family to pursue a career as a jazz banjo player and guitarist.- she grew up in Baltimore and had a very difficult childhood. Her mother often took what were then known as "transportation jobs," serving on passenger railroads. Holiday was raised mostly by Eva Miller's mother-in-law Martha Miller, and suffered from her mother's absences and being in others' care during her first decade of her life. Holiday's autobiography, Lady Sings the Blues was published in 1956. It has sketchy details of her early life. More information of the biography of the singer can be gained and researched by the author Stuart Nicholson. Stuart Nicholson has a 1995 biography of the singer.- After an unsettled childhood, Holiday began singing in nightclubs in Harlem. Where John Hammond commended her voice. She signed a recording contract with Brunswick in 1935.- Collaborations with Teddy Wilson produced the hit "What a Little Moonlight Can Do", which became a jazz standard. Between the 1930s and 1940s, Holiday had much success on labels as Columbia and Decca. By the late 1940s, however, she was oppressed with legal troubles and drug abuse. After a short prison sentence, she performed at a sold-out concert at Carnegie Hall, but her reputation deteriorated because of her drug and alcohol problems.- She was a successful concert performer throughout the 1950s with two further sold-out shows at Carnegie Hall. From personal struggles and an altered voice, her final recordings were met with mixed reaction, but were mild commercial successes. Her final album, Lady in Satin, was released in 1958. Holiday died of cirrhosis on July 17, 1959. She won four Grammy Awards, all of them were for Best Historical Album. She was initiated into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 1973. Lady Sings the Blues, a film about her life, starring Diana Ross, was released in 1972. She is the primary character in the play Lady Day at Emerson's Bar and Grill. This play was later made into a film. In 2017 Holiday was initiated into the National Rhythm and Blues Hall of Fame.- Billie Holiday acted in the movies titled, New Orleans, Symphony in Black, I Hired a Contract Killer and Panic in the Streets.- Also. Billie Holiday sung at the Downbeat Jazz Club.- In closing out. May I inform you where you can learn more about this wonderful, great and extravagant singer through the website www.billieholiday.com. Bye-bye.✋