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Billie Holiday died on July 17, of pulmonary edema & heart failure caused by cirrhosis of the liver.
Billie Holiday made a single, wry nod to gospel in "God Bless the Child," an ersatz spiritual that quotes a nonexistent Bible verse....
BILLIE HOLIDAY AND THE "GLOOMY SUNDAY" CURSE
On July 17, 1959, singer Billie Holiday died in New York at the age of 44.
Nicknamed "Lady Day" by her friend and musical partner Lester Young, Holiday had a seminal influence on jazz, blues and popular music. She had a difficult childhood and a troubled life that involved violence, prostitution, drugs and alcohol -- but no one could sing like Billie.
She worked with the best in the business, recorded amazing music but then descended into a haze from which she never returned.
Billie Holiday died at three in the morning on 17 July at Metropolitan.By the 1950s, Holiday's drug abuse, drinking, and relationships with abusive men caused her health to deteriorate.
In early 1959, she was diagnosed with cirrhosis of the liver. She stopped drinking for a time and then relapsed.
On May 31, she was taken to Metropolitan Hospital in New York with liver and heart disease. She was arrested for drug possession as she lay dying and was under police guard when she died from pulmonary edema and heart failure caused by