A four-alarm fire on Wednesday evening severely damaged a building in Harlem where the jazz legend Billie Holiday once lived.

The Rolling Stones guitarist Keith Richards was brought up in a musical household with his mother playing Billie Holiday, and he once named his favourite album.

Black American music is music of the spirit, a profound diversity of lessons to be enjoyed. Never duplicated but often imitated, its drumbeats are heartbeats of the inner person that ignites ...

In the early 1970s, Berry Gordy decided to take Motown to Hollywood, and he made a gamble on the first film he put the label's money behind.

The day is considered the ‘gloomiest’ day of the year, owing to post-Christmas blues and post-Christmas ... Seress in 1933 and covered by Billie Holiday, this song is considered the most ...

The Rock & Roll Hall of Fame announced the shortlist for its 2025 class of inductees on Wednesday. The shortlist includes ...

The day is considered the ‘gloomiest’ day of the year, owing to post-Christmas blues and post-Christmas ... version came from jazz legend Billie Holiday in 1941. Her haunting rendition ...

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 ...

When I think holiday music, Lemmy isn’t the first name that comes to mind (neither is Billy Gibbons if we ... Just like that old blues song: it’s in ya and it’s got to come out.

The music is a mixed bag with folk, jazz blues, and traditional music influences ... Specific to singing, Billie Holiday, Norah Jones, Camille, Whitney Houston, Édith Piaf, and Jean Ritchie ...

On "Inner City Blues (Makes Me Wanna Holler)," the singer ... the co-founder and president of Atlantic Records, once referred to Billie Holiday's "Strange Fruit," a song she first performed ...