 
 <prompt> text: ```Billie Holiday na American jazz singer and songwriter. Dem dey call am Lady Day by her loyal friend and musical partner, Lester Young, Holiday bin dey very influential for jazz and pop singing. Her voice style, wey dey strongly inspired by jazz instrumentalists, don pioneer a new way of controlling tempo. Above all, people dey admire her for her deeply personal and direct approach to singing.

Billie Holiday bin born Eleanora Fagan on April 7, 1915, for Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Her papa, Clarence Halliday (Holiday), wey be musician, no marry or live with her mama. Her mama bin move go Philadelphia when she dey thirteen, after she run comot from her parents' house for Sandtown-Winchester, Baltimore sake of say she carry belle. With no support from her own parents, Holiday's mama arrange make the young Holiday stay with her older married half sister, Eva Miller, wey dey live for Baltimore.

During her final period of separation from her mama, Holiday start to perform the songs wey she learn while she dey work for the brothel. By early 1929, Holiday join her mama for Harlem. Their landlady na one sharply dressed woman wey dem dey call Florence Williams, wey dey run one brothel for 151 West 140th Street. For them to survive, Holiday and her mama need to work there. Holiday never even reach fourteen years old that time. On May 2, 1929, the house bin dey raided, and Holiday and her mama dey sent go prison. After she spend some time for workhouse, her mama release for July, followed by Holiday for October, when she dey 14 years old.

She co-write some songs, and some of them don become jazz standards, especially God Bless the Child, Don't Explain, and Lady Sings the Blues. She also become famous for singing jazz standards wey others write, including Easy Living and Strange Fruit.

Her early career dey hard to track down exactly. But, she later get work to dey sing for local jazz clubs before one talent scout, John Hammond, spot am for 1933, when she dey 18 years old.

Her voice and recordings dey loved for the depth of emotion and intensity wey she fit bring to classic standards. Her voice range no too plenty, but, her extraordinary gravelly voice soon become very famous and influential.

She na important icon of the jazz era and influential for the development of jazz singing. For the late 1930s, she start to dey sing one civil rights song wey dem dey call Strange Fruit--a song wey tell the story of one lynching of one black man for the deep south. E dey very controversial for that period and e no dey play for radios. E dey recorded for Commodore records and she perform am many times over the next 20 years.

For early 1959, she find out say she get cirrhosis of the liver. The doctor tell am make she stop to dey drink, wey she do for small time, but she soon return to heavy drinking. By May she don lose twenty pounds, friends Leonard Feather, Joe Glaser, and Allan Morrison try make she go hospital, she delay am.

On May 31, 1959, Holiday dey taken go Metropolitan Hospital for New York dey suffer from liver and heart disease. Dem arrest am for drug possession as she dey die, and her hospital room dey raided by authorities. Police officers dey station for the door to her room. Holiday dey under police guard for the hospital until she die from cirrhosis of the liver on July 17, 1959. Billie Holiday get difficult life experiences wey influence her attitude towards life. She experience many violent relationships. She also dey depend on different drugs wey contribute to her early death for 1959, when she just dey 44 years old.

Answers to the questions:

1. Billie Holiday na American jazz singer and songwriter.
2. Dem dey call am Lady Day.
3. She born for Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
4. Her best friend and musical partner na Lester Young.
5. Her papa na Clarence Halliday (Holiday).
6. Her papa no marry her mama.
7. The name of her older sibling na Eva Miller.
8. She dey stay for Harlem.
9. She perform for the brothel where she dey work.
10. She join her mama again for early 1929.
11. She join her mama for Harlem.
12. The name of the landlady na Florence Williams.``` <response>: ```1. person wey dey sing and write song
2. Lady Day
3. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
4. Lester Young
5. Clarence Halliday
6. no
7. Eva Miller
8. for Baltimore
9. for brothel
10. By early 1929
11. Harlem
12. Florence Williams``` 