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4 days ago · Billie Holiday (born Eleanora Fagan; April 7, 1915 – July 17, 1959) was an American jazz and swing music singer. Nicknamed " Lady Day " by her friend and music partner, Lester Young, Holiday made a significant contribution to jazz music and pop singing.
4 days ago · Billie Holiday (born April 7, 1915, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.—died July 17, 1959, New York City, New York) was an American jazz singer, one of the greatest from the 1930s to the ’50s.
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- Billie Holiday was one of the greatest jazz singers from the 1930s to the ’50s. She had no formal musical training, but, with an instinctive sense...
- As a singer, Holiday was known for her dramatic intensity, which could render the most banal lyric profound. Among the songs identified with her we...
- Holiday began her career singing in a Harlem nightclub and made her first recordings in 1933, with Benny Goodman and others. Two years later a seri...
1 day ago · Sixty-five years ago, on July 17, 1959, Billie Holiday died at Metropolitan Hospital in New York. The 44-year-old singer arrived after being turned away from a nearby charity hospital on evidence ...
2 days ago · (THE CONVERSATION) Sixty-five years ago, on July 17, 1959, Billie Holiday died at Metropolitan Hospital in New York. The 44-year-old singer arrived after being turned away from a nearby charity ...
1 day ago · Sixty-five years ago, on July 17, 1959, Billie Holiday died at Metropolitan Hospital in New York. The 44-year-old singer arrived after being turned away from a nearby charity hospital on evidence ...
5 days ago · The longest performance (Billie’s Blues) from the Basel concert benefits from good acoustics and the contributions of Red Norvo, Jimmy Raney, Buddy DeFranco and Red Mitchell. It received a rapturous audience response. Whitney Balliett said “We hear the Billie Holiday of 1939. Her voice is smooth and her pitch perfect.
1 day ago · Billie Holiday performs ‘Strange Fruit’ in 1959. Unflinching lyrics Like so many composers whose songs Holiday recorded – George and Ira Gershwin , Irving Berlin , Jerome Kern – Meeropol came from a family of Jewish immigrants to America who fled antisemitic violence in Europe.
