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Billie Holiday’s illustrious career
Jazz singer Billie Holiday, left, and composer Duke Ellington, center, rehearse "Symphony in Black: A Rhapsody of Negro Life" in 1935. Fans and artists are celebrating Lady Day, as she was known, on the 100th anniversary of her birth on April 7, 1915.
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Louis Armstrong and Holiday pose for a portrait in 1939.
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Holiday performs "Fine and Mellow" accompanied by James P. Johnson on piano in 1943.
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Holiday performs in the Esquire Jam Session at the Metropolitan Opera House in 1944.
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Holiday performs at Carnegie Hall in New York in 1948 during the peak of her musical career.
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Holiday performs under a spotlight at a club in 1954.
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From left, Holiday, performs with musicians Lester Young, Coleman Hawkins and Gerry Mulligan on the CBS television program "The Seven Lively Arts" in New York in 1957.
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Holiday sings at the Olympia in Paris in 1958.
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Holiday performs in Hamburg, Germany, in 1959. She died in New York on July 17, 1959, from pulmonary edema and heart failure caused by cirrhosis of the liver.