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Billie Holiday

BAND RANKINGS:

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All Time

of 150,032

1,856
Decades
- 1930s
  
  of 20
  
  0
- 1940s
  
  of 38
  
  0
- 1950s
  
  of 170
  
  126
- 1960s
  
  of 431
  
  0
- 1980s
  
  of 1,418
  
  0
- 1990s
  
  of 7,254
  
  5,031
- 2000s
  
  of 10,569
  
  1,077
Genres
- Blues
  
  of 747
  
  194
- Broadway & Vocalists
  
  of 240
  
  103
- Jazz
  
  of 1,947
  
  433
- Miscellaneous
  
  of 2,546
  
  737
- Opera & Vocal Music
  
  of 327
  
  81
- Pop
  
  of 13,667
  
  3,241

CAREER SPAN:

Decade

Album Score

# Albums

1930s

0.0000

1940s

0.0000

1950s

1.3016

1960s

0.0000

1980s

0.0000

1990s

1.5264

2000s

2.0593

172

Ratings and rankings are based on all available critic reviews for each album.

Overall Band Score: Billie Holiday is ranked overall as 2.1767 out of 4 stars

2.1767

Billie Holiday Biography

Formed:

April 1915

Disbanded:

July 1959

Genres:

Blues, Broadway & Vocalists, Classical, Country, Dance & DJ, Folk, Jazz, Miscellaneous, Opera & Vocal Music, Pop, R&B & Soul, Rock, Soundtracks, Music

Labels:

A Touch Of Magic, Accord Classics/jazz, Acrobat/city Hall, All Star, Allegro Corporation, Allegro Distributed Labels, Allegro Distributed Lines, Art Vocal, Asl Living Era, Asv Living Era, Baldwin Street Music, Bd Music/forte, Bellaphon/delos, Big Eye Music, Birdland

History:

The first popular jazz singer to move audiences with the intense, personal feeling of classic blues, Billie Holiday changed the art of American pop vocals forever. Almost fifty years after her death, it's difficult to believe that prior to her emergence, jazz and pop singers were tied to the Tin Pan Alley tradition and rarely personalized their songs; only blues singers like Bessie Smith and Ma Rainey actually gave the impression they had lived through what they were singing. Billie Holiday's ...more

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