In America she worked with the greats of jazz, people like Billie Holiday, Duke Ellington and Louis Armstrong. |
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I trudged into the depression and fell into a sound sleep as Billie stayed on guard. |
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Like her inspiration, Billie Holliday, her voice has the power to create beauty out of moments and times of darkness. |
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Local President Billie Davenport said that none of the sick calls were falsified. |
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Even the loose-fitting T-shirt could not hide Billie Piper's growing baby bump, three months into her first pregnancy. |
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The main problem is that unlike, say, Billie Holiday, Joe Henry is more a faithful mimic than the genuine article. |
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We used to sit for hours together when we were fifteen listening again and again to his two Billie Holiday records. |
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While Billie enjoyed splashing around in the sea in a bikini, Evans sat on a sunlounger reading a book. |
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This goal is achieved in the film's narrative by transforming Billie Holiday into a hysteric. |
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Over the years, Billie has gained insight into the reasons why prisoners released on parole so often fail and end up back in prison. |
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She spends what seem like hours bathing, listening to Billie Holiday records, chain-smoking, and smiling to herself. |
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Walking out I see Billie with a cheesey grin on holding up my crutches. |
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With the help of Billie Jean King, he is now enrolled at California State University in Los Angeles, where he lives. |
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Audra McDonald's amazing performance as Billie Holliday in 'Lady Day at Emerson's Bar and Grill' must win her a Tony. |
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Running parallel to this tempestuous relationship is the whirlwind romance between weathergirl Hero, played by Billie Piper, and sports presenter Claude. |
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She steals the show as Billie Tricks, the raddled night-club hostess. |
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The long-range career forecast is looking sunny for Billie Piper. |
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Then there are the names like Billie Jean King, Martina Navratilova, Sheryl Swoopes, Brian Boitano and others. |
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Society, in the form of the prison matrons, punishes Billie for daring to transgress its most covert laws and moral structures concerning women, especially black women. |
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Entering a national contest to find the next Billie Holiday, she came second, but there was little work, other than singing for beer money with trad bands. |
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Ruby played her eldest daughter records by Billie Holiday and Dinah Washington and would teach her the lyrics and sing her to sleep with their songs at night. |
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See her, in Medea, remember the hammerhead shark, play with a cigarette, remind her listeners that their tape is running out, and obsess about another, very different Billie. |
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In terms of the film's representations of Billie, straitjacketed and screaming, she is presented metaphorically as a swaddling baby as she cries out for care. |
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Around the same time, she changed her name to Billie Holiday. |
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He gave me a gorgeous, black lacquer grand piano as a house-warming gift and for my wedding day he gave me a beautiful portrait of Billie Holiday. |
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The evening was made possible through the generosity of Melcer's colleague and companion Billie Ann Burrill, professor emerita and founder of the dance department. |
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Publicly, she may well claim she aims to smash her final imprint into the record book, equalling the record of 20 Wimbledon titles garnered by Billie Jean King. |
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Billie plays Angel, a dolly bird, who is the object of Jimmy's desires. |
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If Billie Holiday tends to root us to one spot,, Yannatou carries us on a voyage into different musical dialects with varied textures and inscapes. |
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Hosts included Jim Lampley, Billie Jean King, Martina Navratilova, John Lloyd and Barry MacKay among others. |
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Prior to Hingis, it was Billie Jean King who came close at completing a career boxed set. |
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Billie was bummed out after watching her performance in TV drama The Canterbury Tales. |
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She may be an Essex girl born and bred but TOWIE star Billie Faiers is aiming to walk down the aisle in Ireland. |
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Romantic frisson is provided by Dice, a presumably hip club DJ who thrusts Billie on her road to stardom. |
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Paul Baptist Church's choir, Echoes of Eden, to hearing Billie Holiday and many others at legendary local joints like Club Alabam. |
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As the story goes nana and grandad, Lizzie and Billie Graham, moved to Bulmer Street after doing a moonlight flit from Haverton Hil. |
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Now she has recorded a version of Strange Fruit, an antiracism song first sung by US legend Billie Holiday. |
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It's a far cry from the days of Rosie Casals, Billie Jean King, and Betty Stove. |
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Eve Myles won the Best Actress category at the same awards, ahead of Doctor Who's Billie Piper. |
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Planet soap was left reeling after Billie Jackson carked it in his sleep after a birthday night on the pop. |
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Obama's group heading to Sochi includes openly gay athletes Brian Boitano, Billie Jean King and Caitlin Cahow. |
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Could it be mere coincidence, for instance, that Billie Holiday's line of lovermen exhibited a sadistic streak both in her lyrics and in her life? |
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Relief for Billie, Kristin and Jennifer comes in the well-toned, extremely well-hung form of Cam Lawford, a former NFL football player turned gigolo. |
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I FEEL like I should send a Dear John letter to Billie Piper. |
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Other acts in the star-studded London show included teen popster BILLIE who performed for the first time since collapsing in a bar two weeks ago. |
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