The Double Life of Billy Tipton
Paperback
Publication Date: 16/06/1999
The jazz pianist Billy Tipton was born in Oklahoma City as Dorothy Tipton, but almost nobody knew the truth until the day he died, in Spokane in 1989. Over a fifty-year performing career, Billy Tipton fooled nearly everyone, including Duke Ellington and Norma Teagarden, five successive "wives" with whom Billy lived as a man, and three children who he "fathered." As Billy Tipton herself said, "Some people might think I'm a freak or a hermaphrodite. I'm not. I'm a normal person. This has been my choice." This jazz-era biography evokes the rich popular-music history of the Great Depression and reads like a detective story.
- ISBN:
- 9780395957899
- 9780395957899
- Category:
- Individual composers & musicians
- Format:
- Paperback
- Publication Date:
- 16-06-1999
- Language:
- English
- Publisher:
- Houghton Mifflin
- Country of origin:
- United States
- Pages:
- 320
- Dimensions (mm):
- 229x152x25mm
- Weight:
- 0.46kg
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