Lady Sings the Blues by Billie Holiday & William Dufty Summary
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Billie Holiday's raw autobiography exposes the brutal reality of racism, addiction, and musical genius. Beyond inspiring Diana Ross's iconic portrayal, this jazz legend's unflinching story resonates with artists like Erykah Badu. What truths lie beneath the controversial inaccuracies that made her voice "real as rain"?
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A Voice Forged in Pain, Preserved in Song
From the moment "Lady Sings the Blues" hit shelves in 1956, Billie Holiday's memoir stood apart from typical celebrity tell-alls. Critics fixated on factual discrepancies, missing the raw emotional truth that made the book, like her music, so powerful. Written with William Dufty, the memoir captures Holiday's authentic voice - as if she's speaking directly to you across her kitchen table, sharing stories both heartbreaking and triumphant. Born Eleanora Fagan in 1915 Baltimore to teenage parents, Holiday's early life was marked by extraordinary hardship. Her mother Sadie, just thirteen when she gave birth, scrubbed hospital floors to keep her baby while her musician father pursued his career elsewhere. Left with relatives who beat her, Holiday found comfort only with her great-grandmother, a former slave whose death traumatized the young girl so severely she was hospitalized for shock. By sixteen, she was working as a domestic, scrubbing white steps across Baltimore for fifteen cents instead of the standard nickel. Music became her escape - she'd run errands for a local madam just to hear Louis Armstrong and Bessie Smith records playing on the victrola. "I'd have run errands for anyone with a victrola playing Pops and Bessie," Holiday explains, "even a minister."
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