Billie Holiday ... The next morning, Holiday noticed that everyone was acting strangely around her. She went up to the road manager and "told him Mama was dead and what time she died the night ...

Billie Holiday, 44, Negro blues singer ... Billie was condemned for one year to the custody of nuns who punished her by locking her in a room with a dead body to cure the little girl’s “temper”. It ...

And now, to mark the 60th anniversary of Billie Holiday's death, here's Elizabeth's story again. (SOUNDBITE OF ARCHIVED NPR BROADCAST) ELIZABETH BLAIR, BYLINE: If you're a dead jazz musician ...

(The Conversation) — Sixty-five years ago, on July 17, 1959, Billie ... “Black body swinging in the Southern breeze / Strange fruit hanging from the poplar trees.” Holiday’s rendition ...

Though her career was relatively short and often erratic, she left behind a body of work as great as any vocalist before or since. Born Eleanora Fagan in 1915, Billie Holiday spent much of her ...

Back in the 1950s, when the American people were buying television sets and driving gas guzzlers on brand new superhighways under the threat of nuclear war, singer Billie Holiday ... and Body And Soul ...

I ain’t doing it tonight.” Moments later, Roz White is smiling behind the mic as Billie Holiday, a pro who knows how to hit her mark. We’re in Philadelphia, a city Billie admits she hates ...