Billie Holiday - God Bless The Child (1955)
“LADY DAY”… she left this world on July 17, 1959, in a hospital bed, ravaged by cirrhosis, her demons, and a dissolute and unhappy life. She had 70 cents in her bank account, a woman who had enriched everyone around her. She was 44 years old but looked 100.
Abandoned by her father, devastated by her mother who ran a brothel, raped at 10 years old, forced into prostitution to eat, and initiated into opium and heroin by her first husband. She was already destroyed by a thousand lives before she even lived her own.
Angel of Harlem
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“LADY DAY”… she left this world on July 17, 1959, in a hospital bed, ravaged by cirrhosis, her demons, and a dissolute and unhappy life. She had 70 cents in her bank account, a woman who had enriched everyone around her. She was 44 years old but looked 100.
Abandoned by her father, devastated by her mother who ran a brothel, raped at 10 years old, forced into prostitution to eat, and initiated into opium and heroin by her first husband. She was already destroyed by a thousand lives before she even lived her own.
Angel of Harlem
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IlConte
19 aug 24
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