Becoming Billie Holiday
Before the legend of Billie Holiday, there was a girl named Eleanora. In 1915, Sadie Fagan gave birth to a daughter she named Eleanora. The world, however, would know her as Billie Holiday, possibly the greatest jazz singer of all time. Eleanora's journey into legend took her through pain, poverty, and run-ins with the law. By the time she was fifteen, she knew she possessed something that could possibly change her life—a voice. Eleanora could sing. Her remarkable voice led her to a place in the spotlight with some of the era's hottest big bands. Billie Holiday sang as if she had lived each lyric, and in many ways she had. Through a sequence…
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Weitere Autoren: Cooper, Floyd (Illustr.)
- ISBN: 978-1-62979-173-9
- EAN: 9781629791739
- Produktnummer: 32911937
- Verlag: Astra Publishing House
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2008
- Seitenangabe: 120 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 8'450 KB
- Sonstiges: Ab 9 - 12 J.
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Carole Boston Weatherford is an award-winning poet and author of over two dozen books for young readers. She lives in High Point, North Carolina.Floyd Cooper has illustrated more than sixty books for children and young adults including Miss Crandall's School for Young Ladies & Little Mises of Color by Elizabeth Alexander and Marilyn Nelson and Tough Boy Sonatas by Curtis L. Crisler. He lives in Easton, Pennsylvania.
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