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On April 7, 1915 a famous blues/ jazz singing was born Billie Holiday. Even though she was not given the name Billie Holiday instead given the name Eleanora Fagan Gough. Her parents was very young when she was born her mother only thirteen and father only fifteen they not married so she was given the mother’s last name. Her father was a trumpet player who called her bill because she was a tomboy so as time went on eventually she called herself Billie then taking her father last name given her the name Billie Holiday.