Though she didn't return to the studio for over a year, Billie Holiday spent 1934 moving up the rungs of the competitive New York bar scene. By early 1935, she made her debut at the Apollo Theater and appeared in a one-reeler film with Duke Ellington. During the last half of 1935,...
Billie Holiday (1915-1959), the legendary jazz singer whose vocal stylings were deeply affecting, continues to enthrall. This biography conveys her hard-luck youth, career triumphs, and then decline and early death. At age 14, despite growing up with an absentee musician father, little schooling...
“My father was a big fan of Billie Holiday,” he said. “I grew up listening to her on Sunday mornings. Growing up in North London I didn’t know the details of her life, just the music. When Lee mentioned a few years ago...
Eilish said during the event’s online live stream that her look wasinspired by her favorite holiday-themed Barbiesfrom growing up, while a video showcasing her collaboration with the designers added that she brought in photos of classic Hollywood icons like Marilyn Monroe as inspiration....
Growing Up Fisher: Musings, Memories and Misadventures in 2017. For her part, Lourd leads a relatively private life, preferring to share pieces of it via Instagram where she sometimes posts tributes to her mother and grandmother on anniversaries, birthdays and special occasions. Her interviews are...
And it’s so cool that it’s real because when you have younger fans or people looking up to you, listeners, they can also just see that and be like, “Oh, that could actually be me, too.” MICHAELS Especially as a songwriter growing up with Shelly Peiken and Linda ...
Cover Story: The Lady Vanishes ; Who Stole Billie Holiday? She Is Feminist Property Because She Was a Black Woman Who Did It Her Way. Her Outsider-Victim Status Made Her a Gay Diva. and to Straight, White Hipsters, She's the Sound of Cool Comfort. but, Says Phil Johnson, the ...
(Eilish) can’t imagine what it would be like to spend such a joyous holiday alone, and decides to hold up an invitation in her apartment window to her sad, lonely, and elderly neighbor (McKinnon) who is eating by herself on Christmas. The woman is elated when she reads the ...
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When I was relistening to American Idiot and got to the breakdown in “Holiday,” the “Sieg heil to the president gasman” line caught me off guard. I understand the context,At the time, “president gasman” was a comment on President Bush’s connection to big oil and how the Iraq...