"I have to go back to Billie Holiday. Billie Holiday was such a seminal figure in my life. Everything about her. What a courageous woman she was."
— Billie Holiday

January 1, 1970

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People from PhiladelphiaWomen singersSinger-songwriters from the United StatesJazz singersSingers from Maryland
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, when asked to name "some innovators who are women who have shaped your musical style, spirit or thinking," in Daniel King "Sonny Rollins on the Pandemic, Protests and Music", The New Yorker (June 11, 2020)