And it included more than a dozen top-10 hits on the pop charts. These were her biggest. Billie Holiday’s biggest hit song as a leader was ‘I’m Gonna Lock My Heart’ 1942: Billie Holiday ...

Then, one night, at Club Ebony, they ended up dancing together — Billie Holiday and Anslinger’s ... We assume, looking back, that these were the reasons this war was launched in the ...

On Oct. 5, 1958, Billie Holiday took the stage at ... Americans embodied by tropes such as “Amos ’n’ Andy” and Aunt Jemima. Holiday was doing much more than making music, says Scherrie ...

What portrait of her do you think did emerge from listening to these tapes especially? If one was to try and make a Billie Holiday film today, from scratch, you’d go out and you’d interview ...

Much the same could be said for Billie Holiday’s "God Bless the Child ... which is remarkable, given that these lyrics have a sarcastic side to them, though you almost wouldn’t know ...

On Dec. 15, 2016, The Hard Times published an article positing that U.S. President Donald Trump had demanded that singer Billie Holiday posthumously ... I ask these loser clerks where I can ...

Flashback Friday: Billie Holiday Today, July 16, marks the passing of the incomparable singer Ms. Billie Holiday. Few vocalists before or since have been able to spin such emotional depth through ...

American jazz singer Billie Holiday sings at ... There may be some merit to these movies, but the music in them takes a distant second place to Holiday’s drug use, arrests, troubles with men ...

When Billie Holiday stepped onto a stage, it wasn’t just her voice that turned heads—it was her presence. Known as Lady Day, she embodied a timeless kind of beauty that can't be replicated ...

Billie Holiday had reasons to sing the blues. Abandoned by her father and raised in Harlem by her often-unemployed mother, “we were starving,” Billie recalled. But she learned how to survive.

We all know and love Billie Holiday for a mark on music that’s still evident today, but there’s something to be said about the singer’s timeless take on style. Known for bold accessories and ...