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William Lee "Billy" Tipton (December 29, 1914 – January 21, 1989) was an American jazz musician and bandleader. He is also notable for the postmortem discovery that, although he lived his adult life as a man, he was assigned female at birth.

Born in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, Tipton grew up in Kansas City, Missouri, where he was raised by an aunt after his mother died. He subsequently rarely saw his father, G. W. Tipton, a pilot who sometimes took him for airplane rides. As a high-school student, Tipton went by the nickname Tippy and became interested in music, especially jazz, studying piano and saxophone. He returned to Oklahoma for his final year of high school and joined the school band there.

As Tipton began a more serious music career, he adopted his father's nickname, Billy, and more actively worked to pass as male by binding his breasts and padding his pants.
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BILLY TIPTON Billy Tipton Plays Hi-Fi On Piano album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Billy Tipton Plays Hi-Fi On Piano
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BILLY TIPTON The Billy Tipton Trio ‎: Sweet Georgia Brown album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
The Billy Tipton Trio ‎: Sweet Georgia Brown
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