Suits Me: The Double Life of Billy Tipton – A Biography of Jazz Era Music That Reads Like a Detective Story. This item is unavailable.
Language: English
Published by Mariner Books, 1999
- Softcover
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- Title
- Suits Me: The Double Life of Billy Tipton – A Biography of Jazz Era Music That Reads Like a Detective Story
- Author
- Middlebrook, Diane Wood
- Publisher
- Mariner Books
- Publication year
- 1999
- Condition
- good
- Binding
- Soft cover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0395957893
- ISBN 13
- 9780395957899
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.
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