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 . 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 Im a freak or a hermaphrodite. Im not. Im 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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