She didn't just sing the blues, she called her autobiography "Lady Sings The Blues"
[DOC] [TLE] The Art of Billie Holiday's Life - The New Yorker [PAR] Apr 3, 2015 ... Holiday's recording career was precocious: she made her first records in ... 
Szwed explains, When Billie was born, her mother was nineteen, her father 
seventeen.