The Great Depression made it difficult to get a job or be successful because they limited the number of workers and how much any one person or company could have, but one person has proved that it was possible to succeed. Billie Holiday was a little girl with no future but as she grew up she became much more. In his life he went through many triumphs which led to many glories, in this article you will learn about them all. Say no to plagiarism. Get a tailor-made essay on "Why Violent Video Games Shouldn't Be Banned"? Get an original essayBillie was born on April 7, 1915 as Eleanor Fagan. She was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Sadie, her mother, was only 19 when she had Billie with a man thought to be known as Clarence Holiday, a successful jazz musician. Her father, being a very successful musician, almost never came to visit Billie and Sadie. Billie didn't have a father until three years after she was born. When Billie's mother married Phillip Gough in 1920, Billie actually had a stable home for a couple of years. Before this marriage Billie had taken her grandfather's surname. That marriage didn't last more than a few years and Billie had some difficulty living at home, there were times when Billy had to live with other people until her mother could take care of her again. Billie began skipping school and getting into trouble shortly after the divorce. Billie and her mother went to truancy court, where Billy was sent to the Home of the Good Shepherd. This home was a facility for troubled African American women; as Billie was only 9 she was one of the few younger girls there. She was sent there in January and sent home in August (of the same year). In 1926 Billie was sexually assaulted and was sent home and the man who had assaulted her was sent to prison. Billie left at the age of 13 to go to New York to visit her mother, during the trip she decided to stop and get off at Pennsylvania Station and visit Harlem first. He ended up getting lost; a social worker found her and took her to a hotel where she lived. This certain hotel turned out to be the YWCA. This is where she became a prostitute and also began singing in local clubs and bars (this is where she renamed herself Billie). Billie had also started using drugs such as marijuana. IN 1928 Billie and her mother moved to New York where her mother worked as a housekeeper, in 1929 the Great Depression hit and Sadie lost her job. In 1932 Billie had decided to audition in clubs as a dancer but when she was rejected she decided to give it a try. singing instead. When Billie was 18 she sang at a local jazz club in Harlem, where John Hammond, a music producer, discovered Billie. Hammond recorded with Benny who played clarinet and was also the band leader. He had his first commercial release Your Mother's Son-in-Law with Benny. In 1934 he had his first top ten hit singing Riffin the Scotch. He still began singing in Harlem nightclubs and theaters. Shortly after his first top ten hit, he began recording with a man named Teddy Wilson, who was a jazz pianist. When performing with Teddy Wilson she released other singles such as: What a Little Moonlight Can Do and Miss Brown to You. Also in 1935 Billie starred in the film Symphony in Black with Duke Ellington. Billie had begun recording with Count Basie and a year later began recording with Artie Shaw. Billie became the first black singer to sing in an all-white orchestra. In 1937 Billie's father, Clarence Holiday, died of natural causes. In the 1940s his career began to decline and he began taking even harder drugs. On August 25, 1941, she married a man from.