Charlotte W. Hawes
Charlotte White Hawes( 7 February 1840- 5 Sep 1926) was an American composer, lecturer, music educator, poet and critic from Massachusetts.
" God Bless the Soldier", written in 1890, was dedicated to the Grand Army of the Republic.
Bernie Bonvoisin
Bernard Bonvoisin, known as Bernie Bonvoisin( born 9 July 1956 in Nanterre, Hauts- de- Seine), is a French hard rock singer and film director.
He is best known for having been the singer of Trust.
He was one of the best friends of Bon Scott the singer of AC/ DC and together they recorded the song" Ride On" which was one of the last songs by Bon Scott.
Billie Holiday
Eleanora Fagan (April 7, 1915 – July 17, 1959), better known as Billie Holiday, was an African American jazz singer with a career spanning nearly thirty years.
Nicknamed "Lady Day" by her friend and music partner Lester Young, Holiday had a seminal influence on jazz music and pop singing.
Her vocal style, strongly inspired by jazz instrumentalists, pioneered a new way of manipulating phrasing and tempo.
She was known for her vocal delivery and improvisational skills.
After a turbulent childhood, Holiday began singing in nightclubs in Harlem, where she was heard by the producer John Hammond, who commended her voice.
She signed a recording contract with Brunswick in 1935.
Collaborations with Teddy Wilson yielded the hit "What a Little Moonlight Can Do", which became a jazz standard.
Throughout the 1930s and 1940s, Holiday had mainstream success on labels such as Columbia and Decca.
By the late 1940s, however, she was beset with legal troubles and drug abuse.
After a short prison sentence, she performed at a sold-out concert at Carnegie Hall, but her reputation deteriorated because of her drug and alcohol problems.
She was a successful concert performer throughout the 1950s with two further sold-out shows at Carnegie Hall.
Due to personal struggles and an altered voice, her final recordings were met with mixed reaction, but were mild commercial successes.
Her final album, "Lady in Satin", was released in 1958.
Holiday died of cirrhosis on July 17, 1959.
She won four Grammy Awards, all of them posthumously, for Best Historical Album.
She was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 1973.
"Lady Sings the Blues", a film about her life, starring Diana Ross, was released in 1972.
She is the primary character in the play (later made into a film) "
Lady Day at Emerson's Bar and Grill"
; the role was originated by Reenie Upchurch in 1986, and was played by Audra McDonald on Broadway and in the film.
In 2017 Holiday was inducted into the National Rhythm & Blues Hall of Fame.
Kristin Hunter
Kristin Elaine Hunter( September 12, 1931 – November 14, 2008) was an African- American writer from Pennsylvania.
She sometimes wrote under the name Kristin Hunter Lattany.
She is best known for her first novel," God Bless the Child", published in 1964.
George Linley
George Linley( 27 December 1797 – 10 September 1865), was an English verse- writer and musical composer, who was born in Leeds.
He contributed verses to the local newspapers and published some pamphlets, before leaving his native city in early life.
After a period of military service, he lived at first in Edinburgh but finally settled in London, where he gained a reputation as a writer and composer of songs and ballads.
He is perhaps best known for writing the English lyrics to the song," God Bless the Prince of Wales".
God Bless America
" God Bless America" is an American patriotic song written by Irving Berlin during World War I in 1918 and revised by him in the run up to World War II in 1938.
The later version has notably been recorded by Kate Smith, becoming her signature song.
" God Bless America" takes the form of a prayer( intro lyrics" as we raise our voices, in a solemn prayer") for God's blessing and peace for the nation(" ... stand beside her and guide her through the night ...").
Billy Milano
Billy Milano is a Bronx- born heavy metal musician now based in Austin, Texas.
He is the singer and- occasionally- guitarist and bassist of crossover thrash band M.O.D., and he was also the singer of its predecessor, Stormtroopers of Death.
He was also the singer of United Forces, which also featured his Stormtroopers of Death bandmate Dan Lilker.
God Bless the Child (Billie Holiday song)
"God Bless the Child" is a song written by Billie Holiday and Arthur Herzog Jr. in 1939.
It was first recorded on May 9, 1941 and released by the Okeh Records in 1942.
Holiday's version of the song was honored with the Grammy Hall of Fame Award in 1976.
It was also included in the list of "Songs of the Century", by the Recording Industry Association of America and the National Endowment for the Arts.
Derry's Walls
" Derry's Walls" is a historical song sung in Northern Ireland.
It commemorates the Siege of Derry in 1689.
The author of the words is unknown, and it is sung to the tune of" God Bless the Prince of Wales. ”
It ’s also popular amongst supporters of Rangers F.C.
Heaven Watch the Philippines
" Heaven Watch the Philippines" is a popular song by Irving Berlin, written in 1946.
It was written as a tribute to Filipino resistance during the Japanese occupation in World War II.
During the war, Japanese troops in the Philippines attempted to popularize self- glorifying songs such as" Chichi Yo Anata Wa Tsuyokatta Father, You Were Brave" in English).
Locals resisted these efforts, preferring instead to sing" God Bless the Philippines" to the tune of Berlin's" God Bless America" as a show of national pride.
Berlin himself gave the first performance of" Heaven Watch the Philippines" in Tolosa, Leyte in 1946, in front of an audience that included Sergio Osmeña and Carlos P. Romulo.
Berlin was touring U.S. military bases with a stage production of" This Is the Army", in 1945.
During a stop in the Philippines, he heard children in Leyte singing the song" God Bless America"( which he had written in 1918 and had revised in 1938) with the lyric" God Bless the Philippines".
Touched by that and feeling that they might like a song of their own, he composed" Heaven Watch the Philippines", trying to combine the spiritual quality of" God Bless America" with their feeling for America and desire to be free.
He taught the song to school children in Leyte and sang the song in the finale of the show when" This Is the Army" opened in Leyte.
Berlin had donated the" God Bless America" royalties to the Boy Scouts of America, and he presented the rights to" Heaven Watch the Philippines" to the Commonwealth of the Philippines with the instruction that if they ever sold the song in the Philippines for profit, the proceeds were to be given to the Boy and Girl Scouts of the Philippines.
In a 1987 interview with" Playboy", Imelda Marcos falsely claimed that Berlin had written" Heaven Watch the Philippines" specifically for her.
When asked about her claim, the 99- year- old Berlin denied it outright.

Question: Why did the performer of song God Bless The Child (Billie Holiday Song) die?
Answer: cirrhosis