Though the song bore special cultural significance ... “Lover Man” This track has the pained echoes of Billie Holiday’s troubled love life. In 1941, Holiday married James Monroe, a violent ...

Billie Holiday’s biggest hit song as a leader was ‘I’m Gonna Lock ... the way to No. 4 on the charts with “I’ve Got Your Love to Keep Me Warm,” her biggest hit of ’37.

Holiday became famous after she recorded "Strange Fruit," a 1939 protest song about lynchings ... I took this from Billie and Piaf, that many of the so-called great singers love their notes ...

I love this doubleness that occurs when Billie sings. Vulnerability and strength become one and the same. “Detour Ahead” was the first Billie Holiday song that really hit me between the eyes.

Billie Holiday in her last 1958 recording session (The original image ... Help support the DJs, journalists, and staff of the station you love.

"Or the word 'love.' Maybe I remember what those words ... "What was it that I was growing able to hear in Billie Holiday's later songs," the novelist Haruki Murakami wonders, "songs we might ...

Hardy has clearly spent many years studying and performing onstage as Billie Holiday. But she doesn ... There are also forgiving love songs for the many men who did her wrong.

The latter song is featured on his reverent new album, “Tony Bennett on Holiday,” which finds him paying tribute to jazz-blues vocal legend Billie Holiday ... “I love to give a proper ...

Sixty-five years ago, on July 17, 1959, Billie ... Holiday is revered as one of the most influential musical artists of all time. Time magazine named her 1939 recording of "Strange Fruit" the song ...

On Oct. 5, 1958, Billie Holiday took the stage at the inaugural Monterey Jazz Festival. Then America’s preeminent jazz singer, she closed the event with an effortlessly sophisticated 11-song set ...

In 1959, during what would be the final months of her life, Billie ... Holiday the vocalist would be better served by those books. (The title of Mr. Alexander’s book is in poor taste. In the ...