A native of Manhattan, she was born to
jazz writer
Leonard Feather and his wife Jane, a former big band singer. She was named Billie Jane Lee Lorraine for her godmother
Billie Holiday, her mother's former roommate
Peggy Lee, and for the song "
Sweet Lorraine". Three of her albums have been nominated for
Grammy Awards in the Best Jazz Vocal Album category:
Ages (2010),
Attachments (2013), and
Flirting with Disaster (2015). ==Discography==