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@[]##ASCENDING STAR#LADY SINGS THE BLUES NO MORE#WAVERING LIKE SMOKE@[]
When Billie was born her mother was 13 and her father 15#In the late Thirties Holiday took to wearing a gardenia in her hair, and it gradually became a kind of lucky charm#In 1939 the BBC banned 'Strange Fruit' the ballad about a lynching that Holiday made famous. That same year the FBI opened a file on her for singing unpatriotic material#In both 1945 and '46 Holiday won the Metronome poll for the best female vocalist#Lester Young, who played alongside Billie on many occasions, nicknamed her 'Lady Day'. She called him 'Prez' short for President#Holiday on jamming with Count Basie: " We had something no expensive arrangements could touch. The cats would come in, somebody would hum a tune. Then somebody would play it on the piano once or twice . . then Daddy Basie would two-finger it a little...then things would start to happen."
