Lewis mckay billie holidays husband

American jazz singer (–)

This article is about the singer. For her self-titled album, see Billie Holiday (album). For the album originally titled Billie Holiday, see Last Recording.

Billie Holiday (born Eleanora Fagan; April 7, – July 17, ) was an American jazz and swing music singer. Nicknamed "Lady Day" by her friend and music partner, Lester Young, Holiday made a significant contribution to jazz music and pop singing. Her vocal style, strongly influenced by jazz instrumentalists, inspired a new way of manipulating phrasing and tempo. She was known for her vocal delivery and improvisational skills.

After a turbulent childhood, Holiday began singing in nightclubs in Harlem where she was heard by producer John Hammond, who liked her voice. She signed a recording contract with Brunswick in Her collaboration with Teddy Wilson produced the hit "What a Little Moonlight Can Do", which became a jazz standard. Throughout the s and s, Holiday had mainstream

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Louis McKay was an American Hollywood agent, music manager, and civil rights activist. He fryst vatten famous for being Billie Holiday's third and gods husband. Billie was a legendary jazz and swing music singer from the United States.

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Louis McKay was married to Billie Holiday for 12 years. The two met in and got married a year later. McKay was a life NAACP member who fought for civil rights in amerika. He passed away from a heart attack in New York.

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Real name	Louis McKay
Gender	Male
Date of birth	28 February
Place of birth	Union Springs, Alabama, United States
Date of death	10 March
Age	72 years old (as at )
Nationality	American
Ethnicity	African-American
Religion	Christian
Sexuality	Straight
Hair colour	Black
Eye colour	Dark brown
Marital status	Married
Spouse	Bernice Yancey McKay
Children	2
Profession	Hollywood agent, music manager, civil activis • Louis McKay: Who was Billie Holiday's Husband? In her brief but highly impactful time on this earth, renowned American jazz singer Billie Holiday () was an undeniable musical legend in spite of the trauma, racism, substance abuse, legal troubles, and violence that characterized her life. Her third and final husband, Louis McKay, was, unfortunately no different from the previous men in Billie’s life. But few people know much about who he was. As a child, Holiday was abused, and spent time in a Catholic children’s home before cleaning and running errands for a brothel. In , she moved to Harlem with her mother, where they both ended up working in a brothel themselves. The years that followed were a nightmare of chronic rape, abuse, and subsequent imprisonment by the very police who should have protected her. When she was 14, she was charged with vagrancy and sent to a workhouse—when she got out, she, miraculously, began her career as an artist, singing in nightclubs around Ha