“[Louise] was good to Billie,” says Irene Wilson Kitchens, Holiday’s friend and first wife of pianist Teddy ... for whom money was never an issue — “had a lot to do with it.” ...

Billie Holiday” has revived interest in the hauntingly beautiful and controversial song “Strange Fruit,” which Holiday first popularized in the late 1930s. The film details the numerous ways ...

A gracious Upper West Side townhouse where jazz icon Billie Holiday once lived ... was carved up into separate apartments, and Holiday lived on the first floor, according to reports.

Most famously recorded by jazz icon Billie Holiday ... to the story of Holiday. While hers remains the definitive version, Holiday was neither the song’s author nor the first person to perform ...

Billie Holiday, Cafe Society, and an Early Cry for Civil Rights. Influential jazz writer Leonard Feather called the song “the first significant protest in words and music, the first significant ...

No figure in American music led a more interesting, troubled and tragic life than Billie ... work. Holiday, who was often called "Lady Day," would seem to be a natural subject for a first-rate ...

The former estate of jazz icon Billie Holiday has surfaced for sale at $ ... Ivy coats the walls of the home’s courtyard entryway where the first of two wood-burning, outdoor fireplaces can ...

Billie Holiday sung 'Strange Fruit' throughout her career after first performing the song in 1939. William J. Gottlieb/Library of Congress Southern trees bear a strange fruit/Blood on the leaves ...