Billie Holiday was Motown’s immediate predecessor. It’s obvious she was an influence, and Gordy made that clear with his ...
A four-alarm fire on Wednesday evening severely damaged a building in Harlem where the jazz legend Billie Holiday once lived.
Stella and her quintet present the music of Billie Holiday. Shrouded in mystery as ... Blue Moon, Billie's Blues, and Strange Fruit, to name a few, the band also revives some of the earlier ...
Billie Holiday's voice remains one of the most unique ... Billie had accidentally pricked her scalp with a hat pin. In "Lady Sings the Blues," she wrote that "between the sweat and blood, I ...
Billie's Blues; All Of Me; I Cover The Waterfront; Them There Eyes; My Man; What A Little Moonlight Can Do; I'll Remember April; Over The Rainbow; Bass Solo; Now's The Time; Sweet Georgia Brown; ...
Born Elinore Harris, Billie Holiday had a difficult teen and young adulthood period, which included working in brothels, both as a cleaning woman and a prostitute, and being raped. Through this ...