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Billie Holiday (born Eleanora Fagan; April 7, 1915 – July 17, 1959) was an American jazz and swing music singer. Nicknamed " Lady Day " by her friend and music partner, Lester Young , Holiday made a significant contribution to jazz music and pop singing.
Billie states that the lyrics are about human rights, something the government often forgets. In 1947, Billie's husband Monroe and her manager, Joe Glaser, try to get Billie to cut "Strange Fruit" from her set list, fearing legal problems if they continue to perform something so controversial.
In his 2015 study of Holiday, Billie Holiday: The Musician and the Myth, John Szwed argues that Lady Sings the Blues, is a generally accurate account of Holiday's life, and that Holiday's co-writer, William Dufty, was forced to water down or suppress material by the threat of legal action.
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 ...
Whitney Houston. The six-time Grammy winner died at age 48 in a hotel bathtub, deeply in debt. Despite making a $100 million deal with record label Arista in 2001, by the time of her death in 2012 ...
The first trailer for Paramount’s “The United States vs. Billie Holiday” explores the tragic story of singer Billie Holiday, the racial inequalities of 1940s America and her encounters with ...
Harry Jacob Anslinger (May 20, 1892 – November 14, 1975) was an American government official who served as the first commissioner of the U.S. Treasury Department's Federal Bureau of Narcotics during the presidencies of Herbert Hoover, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Harry S. Truman, Dwight D. Eisenhower, and John F. Kennedy.
The author of a new biography on coming to understand the truth behind the legendary singer's public persona.