Billie Holiday a real name of Eleanora Fagan (on April, 7th 1915 — on July, 17th 1959) - the American singer, which creativity makes the whole epoch in the history of a jazz.

Eleanora was born in Philadelphia, the childhood has spent in limiting poverty, the person of her father precisely isn't established. In the early thirties, trying to extract though any legal earnings, began to act in those night clubs where during an epoch of the dry law the alcohol illegally was on sale.