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3 days ago · Billie Holiday (born Eleanora Fagan; April 7, 1915 – July 17, 1959) was an American jazz and swing music singer. ... Louis McKay, was documented on NPR in 2012.
Apr 26, 2024 · WISHING ON THE MOON: The Life and Times of Billie Holiday By Donald Clarke Viking 468 pages, ... Holiday's third husband, Louis McKay, wasn't much better. "He was an idiot, a poor kind of pimp ...
May 2, 2024 · In March 1957, Billie married mafia enforcer Louis McKay in Mexico. McKay was not a good man. He was abusive and also used Billie's success to open some recording studios and advance his own career.
May 10, 2024 · In 1957, Billie Holiday married Louis McKay. They met while she was touring Europe. 1956, Billie and Louis were arrested together for possession of narcotics. Holiday and McKay were estranged at the time of her death. McKay died at the age of 72 following a heart attack. Children. Billie Holiday never had any children of her own. Death
Originally published on November 25, 2020. By Bill Milkowski Feature films about jazz artists frequently get it wrong. Take, for example, Clint Eastwood’s darkly maudlin Charlie Parker biopic, Bird, which played up the womanizer and drug addict at the expense of the alto saxophonist genius within.
May 14, 2024 · The film is currently titled Monsanto, and it comes from Adam McKay and Kevin Messick, the guys who brought you the Dick Cheney biopic Vice and the climate change flick Don't Look Up.
5 days ago · Pop star Diana Ross portrays legendary jazz singer Billie Holiday in this biographical drama. Beginning with Holiday’s traumatic youth, the film depicts her early attempts at a singing career and her eventual rise to stardom, as well as her difficult relationship with drugs and Louis McKay (Billy Dee Williams), her boyfriend and manager.
