She didn't just sing the blues, she called her autobiography "Lady Sings The Blues"
Her autobiography, Lady Sings The Blues, is published by Doubleday [DOC] [TLE] Billie Holiday's Story Was Even More Complicated Than You Think ... [PAR] Apr 7, 2015 ... Billie Holiday, 44, Negro blues singer, whose husky, melancholy voice ... Born of 
indigent teenagers, schooled in a Baltimore brothel, she .... even when she was 
at her most productive, her music didn't fit in with the popular styles of the time.