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Title: Billie Holiday – Billie Holiday
Year/Genre/Sub-Genre/City: 1954, Jazz, Vocal Jazz, Baltimore, Maryland
Matrix #: S 6000
Condition: VG+
Cultural Facts:
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Legal Trouble: Federal agents targeted Holiday over heroin use; after prison, she lost her cabaret card, barring her from NYC clubs serving alcohol.
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Personal Struggle: She was raped at 10, later forced into prostitution as a teen, and carried lifelong trauma that shaped her relationships.
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Political Science: “Strange Fruit” made her a cultural threat, linking her career to anti-lynching protest and bringing sustained government scrutiny.
