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    'Billie' documentary offers eyes-wide-open look at the darker side of singer Holiday's life

    by Howard Reich, Chicago Tribune Dec 02, 2020 3 minutes

    Billie Holiday's tumultuous life story surely has been told more often, and in more ways, than that of any other female jazz singer.

    Books, films, plays, articles — the avalanche was underway long before her death in 1959 at age 44. The combination of a singular art and a dramatic narrative (complete with prostitution, drug abuse, crime, imprisonment and more) never seems to lose its drawing power.

    Which may make the prospect of another Holiday

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