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A female given name derived from Bill, the diminutive of William
variant of William
{i} male or female first name
Holiday Billie King Billie Jean Billie Jean Moffitt

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Billie Holiday
a US jazz and blues singer. She was one of the greatest jazz and blues singers ever, and was also called "Lady Day" (1915-59). orig. Eleanora Fagan born April 7, 1915, Baltimore, Md., U.S. died July 17, 1959, New York, N.Y. U.S. jazz singer. She was "discovered" while she was singing in a Harlem nightclub in 1933. Recordings with Benny Goodman and Duke Ellington led to a series of outstanding small-group records (1935-42) featuring musicians such as Lester Young (who gave her the sobriquet Lady Day) and Teddy Wilson. Exposure with the big bands of Count Basie (1937) and Artie Shaw (1938) brought her greater public attention; for the rest of her life she would remain one of the best known of jazz singers. Among the songs identified with her were "Strange Fruit" and "God Bless the Child." Personal crises and drug and alcohol addiction plagued her career, and she was incarcerated in 1947 on narcotics charges. Her voice could reveal a sweet, often sensual expressiveness or disturbing bitterness in the service of a lyric: her clear projection of emotion represents a landmark of personal expression
Billie Holiday
(1915-1959, born Eleanor Harris) African-American female jazz singer who performed with many famous musicians (such as Count Basie and Benny Goodman)
Billie Jean King
orig. Billie Jean Moffitt born Nov. 22, 1943, Long Beach, Calif., U.S. U.S. tennis player. She won her first Wimbledon doubles championship in 1961 as part of the youngest team to do so. She went on to capture a record 20 Wimbledon titles (singles, women's doubles, and mixed doubles) from the mid-1960s to the mid-1970s; in 2003 her record was tied by Martina Navratilova. She also won several U.S. singles titles (1967, 1971-72, 1974) and the Australian (1968) and French (1972) titles. She was ranked first in the U.S. seven times and first in the world five times. In 1973 she defeated the 55-year-old former men's champion Bobby Riggs in a widely publicized "Battle of the Sexes." She was cofounder and first president (1974) of the Women's Tennis Association, and in 1974, with her husband, Larry King, she also founded World TeamTennis, of which she served as director. She wrote two autobiographies (with cowriters) and a history of women's tennis, and she cofounded the magazine Womensport
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