Epitomizing as absolutely as does Charlie Parker the saga of the
jazz genius as tragic soul, Billie Holiday's biography reads like a
Dostoyevsky novel: Raped at 10 years old by a neighbor (some
accounts say "cousin"), she was sent to a home for wayward girls;
in her teens she spent four months in jail for prostitution.
Start-ing as a singer in New York's rough-and-tumble speakeasies of
the early '...
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