What was the stage name of American jazz singer and songwriter Eleanora Fagan?
Billie Holiday Holiday in "Lady Sings The Blues" was nominated for an Oscar and won a Golden Globe. Holiday would go on to win 23 posthumous Grammy awards. Billie Holiday received several Esquire Magazine awards during her lifetime. Her posthumous awards also include being inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame, Ertegun Jazz Hall of Fame, Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, and the ASCAP Jazz Wall of Fame. (1) = Available on Audio (2) = Available on DVD Sources Billie Holiday Eleanora Fagan (April 7, 1915 – July 17, 1959), better known as Billie Holiday, was an American jazz singer with
The Jazz Singer had been somewhat more modest." The film had other effects that were more immediate. George Jessel, who was in his third season touring with the stage production of "The Jazz Singer", later described what happened to his show—perhaps anticipating how sound would soon cement Hollywood's dominance of the American entertainment industry: "A week or two after the Washington engagement the sound-and-picture version of "The Jazz Singer" with Al Jolson was sweeping the country, and I was swept out of business. I couldn't compete with a picture theatre across the street showing the first great sound picture in the world...for fifty