BILLIE HOLIDAY'S TIMELINE

1915: born Eleanora Holiday on April 7 
1932:  opens Covan's night club on W. 132 St.
1933:   signs Joe Glaser, agent for Louis Armstrong and Mildred Bailey, as her agent. 
records with Benny Goodman: "Riffin' the Scotch"  featuring trumpeters JackTeagarden and Shirley Clay, and "Your Mother's Son-In-Law" 
records with Teddy Wilson's band under the Columbia label 
1934:  performs with pianist Bobbie Henderson in her first appearance at the Apollo Theatre, November 23
1935:  sings at month-long Apollo engagement 
sings with Ralph Cooper's band  
stars in film, Symphony in Black, with Duke Ellington  
sings in Fletcher Henderson's band 
1936:  writes "God Bless the Child" 
1937:  meets tenor saxophonist and life-long friend, Lester Young 
father, jazz ???, Clarence Holiday, dies. 
tours with Count Basie Orchestra 
tours with Artie Shaw 
1938:  tours with Artie Shaw's band 
plays at Cafe Society in Greenwich Village 
1939:  records "Strange Fruit" under Commodore label 
1941:  elopes with Jimmy Monroe 
writes "Don't Explain" 
starts Billy Holiday Band 
1946:  institutionalized for drug addiction treatment 
stars in film, New Orleans with Louis Armstrong
1947: sentenced to a year in Federal Reformatory in Alderson, West Virginia 
1948:  performs 30-song comeback concert at Carnegie Hall 
stars in Holiday on Broadway, with Slam Stewart, Bobby Tucker, and Cosy Cole, April 17, 1948 
1950:  obtains divorce from Jimmy Monroe 
enters common law marriage with Louis McKay 
1953:  Billie Holiday's Comeback Story airs on national television 
1954:  tours with Leonard Feather in Europe for three weeks 
1956:              Lady Sings The Blues, her autobiography is published 
arrested for drug possession
1959 dies on July 17

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