He had made the Fillmore Auditorium popular worldwide by bringing famous African American performers like Billie Holiday,James Brown and Sammy Davis,Jr.Bill.

VOA: special.2010.12.03

In the United States, holiday gift giving is important not only for the usual reasons, like showing friendship and love.

VOA: special.2009.12.21

That is all I know." Here is Billie Holiday singing a popular song of the Nineteen thirties, "More Than You Know."

VOA: special.2010.02.28

Nina Simone later told a reporter that she decided just to try to sound like the famous singer Billie Holiday.

VOA: special.2009.10.04

Cape May now is as popular a summer holiday place as it was at the turn of the century.

VOA: special.2009.06.01

One movie shown at the National Building Museum is called "Designing a Great Neighborhood: Behind the Scenes at Holiday."

VOA: special.2009.03.25

Peyroux has said that the great blues singers Billie Holiday and Bessie Smith still help shape her identity.

VOA: special.2009.07.10

In the early nineteen thirties, a music producer, John Hammond, heard Billie Holiday sing in a nightclub.

VOA: special.2011.07.17

It began to affect her health. In nineteen forty-seven, Billie Holiday was arrested for possessing illegal drugs.

VOA: special.2010.02.28

Grant made no speeches. He spent the summer at a holiday town on the Atlantic Ocean coast.

VOA: special.2010.02.18

This Thursday is a day for families and friends to share a special holiday meal and think about what they are thankful for.

VOA: special.2009.11.23

Charles Schulz had Snoopy remember Bill Mauldin every year on the American holiday that honors former soldiers.

VOA: special.2009.10.25

For the next seventeen years, Holiday was one of the most popular nightclub singers in New York.

VOA: special.2010.02.28

But adults are not the only ones who have something to say about the holiday season.

VOA: special.2009.12.21

House members had already begun a six-week holiday when the Senate approved the measure last week.

VOA: special.2010.08.12

In the early nineteen thirties, a music producer,John Hammond, heard Billie Holiday sing in a nightclub.

VOA: special.2010.02.28

Hepburn won an Academy Award as Best Actress for her first major American movie, "Roman Holiday,"

VOA: special.2009.10.16

Final numbers for the holiday season including after-Christmas sales will not be known for a while.

VOA: special.2010.12.17

I think it's a meaningful holiday just to be nice to people and to remember people."

VOA: special.2010.02.08

She and Arthur Herzog wrote it. Billie Holiday's life was a mixture of success and tragedy.

VOA: special.2010.02.28

Billie Holiday's health was ruined by using illegal drugs and by drinking too much alcohol.

VOA: special.2011.07.17

Katherine Cole has more. To get into the spirit of the upcoming holiday, we asked several people what they were doing this year to celebrate.

VOA: special.2010.07.02