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Billie Holiday (born Eleanora Fagan; April 7, 1915 – July 17, 1959) was an American jazz and swing music singer. ... Holiday died of heart failure on July 17, 1959 ...
She was a Jewish feminist [5] and a fan of Billie Holiday. [6] In 1971, she began plans for a biography of Holiday, who had died aged 44 in 1959. [3] She interviewed almost 200 people—friends, family members, band members, peers from 1930s Harlem, piano players, psychiatrists and a pimp—and was still finding people in 1978.
In the song "There'll Be Some Changes Made", Holiday replaces the name Jack Benny in the lyric "Even Jack Benny has been changin' his jokes" to Frank Sinatra, her jazz friend. The album was completed on March 11, 1959. Four days later, Billie Holiday's lifelong friend and music partner Lester Young died on March 15, 1959. She would die four ...
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Billie Holiday’s poor planning For Holiday, she fell on hard times later in life. Although the 44-year-old died with little money, her recording royalties, images, and publishing rights were ...
Bobby Tucker (born Robert Nathaniel Tucker; January 8, 1923 – April 12, 2007) [1] was a pianist and arranger during the jazz era from the 1940s into the 1960s. He is most famous for being Billie Holiday's accompanist from 1946 to 1949 and Billy Eckstine's from 1950 to 1993.
Andra Day was just 11 years old when she first heard Billie Holiday’s iconic anti-lynching song “Strange Fruit.” She recalls “prostrating before the speaker, just listening. It was scary ...
When Ross's racial authenticity was questioned, audiences did not know if she was capable of playing Billie Holiday. Ross's public perception as an "honorary white girl" [15] made her less appealing for the role of Billie Holiday. Audiences argued that her more commercial and "white sounding" voice made her a bad fit to portray Billie Holiday ...