Billie Holiday’s miserable lifetime story wasn’t just about racism. In her older time, she started to mess up men, drugs and jails. She had many songs about sad and desperate love, for example, “My Man”, “Gloomy Sunday”, etc. These songs reflected her stormy relationships with men...
Holiday was most likely singing at clubs all over New York City as early as 1930-31. Whatever the true story, she first gained some publicity in early 1933, when record producer John Hammond only three years older than Holiday herself, and just at the beginning of a legendary career wrote...
Related to Billie Holiday: Nina SimoneHoliday, Billie Holiday, Billie, 1915–59, American singer, b. Baltimore. Her original name was Eleanora Fagan. She began singing professionally in 1930, and after performing with numerous bands—especially those of Benny Goodman, Teddy Wilson, Count Basie, ...
Billie Holiday : the tragedy and triumph of Lady DayRelates the story of the Afro-American woman who, despite a turbulent life, became one of the most famous singers in the history of jazz.Leslie Gourse
Word to the wise that curious elementary-aged kids might need some extra story-telling around the more tumultuous parts of Holiday’s life. Buy Mister and Lady Day $6.99 6. Billie Holiday: The Musician and The Myth by John Szwed Unlike other biographies that dive into Holiday’s tragic ...
The Billie Holiday Story 表演者:Billie Holiday 专辑类型:Box set 介质:Audio CD 发行时间:2005-03-08 出版者:United States Dist 条形码:0825947136625 豆瓣评分 暂无评分 想听在听听过 评价: 写短评 写乐评 加入豆列 分享到 推荐 曲目· ··· Strange...
As the new documentary 'Billie' shows, the legendary singer Billie Holiday struggled to keep her drug addiction and demons at bay.
Directed by Lee Daniels, the movie stars Andra Day as the titular Lady Day and tells the story of Holiday’s life in the wake of “Strange Fruit” TV & Movies By K. Austin Collins See Andra Day Deliver 'Strange Fruit' Medley on 'Fallon' ...
Billie Holiday died sick and poor handcuffed to a hospital bed. Since Holiday’s death she has been enrolled into The Hall of Fame and won numerous Grammy’s. Her story is known to many with musicals and movies punctuated by her tragedies, but her life story speaks to much more such as...