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Jazz singer Billie Holiday vs the US Government?! Her song Strange Fruit written by Abel Meeropol about the treatment of ...
Heaven, I'm in heaven And my heart beats so that I can hardly speak And I seem to find the happiness I seek When we're out together dancing cheek to cheek So begins the song "Cheek to Cheek," written ...
"The best means of bringing them to good ... "What was it that I was growing able to hear in Billie Holiday's later songs," the novelist Haruki Murakami wonders, "songs we might label somehow ...
You may not know Birkenhead for its jazz artists, but you will.
Name Grace Potter Best known for Showing up in musical collaborations that make zero sense except that it’s happening and ...
Explore how 9 influential Black musicians including Louis Armstrong, Michael Jackson, and Prince changed music history through innovation and cultural impact.
Stageworks Theatre will close its 2024-2025 season with Lady Day at Emerson's Bar & Grill, a powerful play with music that brings the story and songs of legendary jazz singer Billie Holiday to stage.
Kildare-based singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, producer and voiceover artist Ross A has released his new single, Heartland Girl. We asked him the BIG questions . . .
Chicago’s After Dark Award-winning entertainer Daryl Nitz will be celebrating Elgin Pride Day with the Daryl Nitz & Friends ...
Grace Potter dives into the storytelling and cinematic feel at the heart of the new T Bone Burnett-produced album 'Medicine,' ...
It has roots deeply embedded in the Black experience. Blues has long been a powerful expression of the struggles, joys and ...
His band is currently rehearsing for an upcoming international tour, which includes a July 12 stop at the Honda Center in Anaheim; his set will include songs from his latest ... If I knew how to sing ...