In a press release on its webiste, the Philadelphia Music Alliance Walk of Fame announced Billie Holiday as its newest inductee today on the 100th anniversary of her birth in the City of Brotherly Love.
Billie Holiday, aka “Lady Day,” is only the first of this year’s inductees to be announced. The Philadelphia Music Alliance (PMA) will hold a press reception in late May to announce the rest of the Walk of Fame’s Class of 2015. Holiday and the rest of the new honorees will be formally inducted together in October during ceremonies along the Avenue of the Arts.
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