Billie Holidays father fathered two children but with a different mother than Billies. He married a white woman who was a dancer before he passed and it has commonly been believed that they passed themselves off as white. Billies mother married a man named Phillip Gough which Billie mentions in her book "Lady sings the blues" his daughter Kay Kelly always claimed to be Billies half sister even posting bail for her supposedly in a Philadelphia arrest and showing up at her bedside before her death buying night gowns for her "sister" however, as Phillip Gough is not Billies natural father and her mother Sadie Fagan did not bare Kay Kelly basically she is of no relation except thru a marriage that ended in divorce in the 1920s
In her autobiography she in her own words says she learned at her fathers funeral that her father Clarence had romanced and had two children with a white woman. The woman (whom She referred to as a βsecond step-motherβ) had come to the funeral with the two children ( boy and girl) who were both white.
the second step-mother told Billie she was bringing the children up white and it was implied they didnβt know this was their fathers funeral.
If the woman had indeed had a relationship with Clarence Holiday, then Billie definitely has two half-siblings and itβs possible they may not know theyβre related to Holiday which is potentially why weβve never seen them in the public eye or heard their names.
(I found this info on page 56 of her autobiography βLady sings the Bluesβ).
She had a step-sister from her motherβs second marriage. Philip Goughβs daughter from his first marriage.
And two unnamed half-siblings (boy and a girl) from a relationship her father had with an unnamed white woman - she only discovered this when they all showed up at her father Clarenceβs funeral (it was implied the children didn't know who Clarence was to them either which Billie found unfair).
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