Billie Holiday's 'Strange Fruit' lyrics were controversial to some and powerful to others. The song was Holiday's way of protesting the lynching of Black people during the Jim Crow era, ...

Day, who does her own singing -- as Diana Ross did in her 1972 Holiday biopic "Lady Sings the Blues" -- brings poetic provocation to the haunting lyrics that got Billie arrested on stage ...

Billie Holiday’s ‘Strange Fruit’ Lyrics Made the Government Hunt Her Down for 20 Years The outlet also shared that Holiday worried about her mortality when Young died. Unfortunately, her ...

The Centennial Collection captures Holiday from 1935 to 1945, during the early phases of a career that ended in the late 1950s. Many hear sadness in Holiday’s voice, and of course that’s there.

According to PBS, Billie would always sing this song without an encore, which was followed by the lights going out.Patrons would often walk out the moment she started singing it. Despite those ...

Andra Day’s tour de force performance as Billie Holiday won her rave reviews and the Golden Globe for Best Actress. She now also has a captive audience in media titan Oprah Winfrey.. OWN and ...

Essay; Billie Holiday Was a Songwriter, Too The great jazz singer drew on her troubled life to write classic songs like ‘God Bless the Child’ and ‘Lady Sings the Blues.’ ...

For Perry, living in the world of Billie Holiday has brought a new appreciation of the artist’s music, which, just like a stage play, seems to change with every performance.

Billie Holiday, starring pop star Andra Day as Lady Day herself. It's the latest dramatization of the singer's troubles and triumphs, directed by Lee Daniels and written by Suzan-Lori Parks.

Billie Holiday’s emotive tone and abilities as an artist and a songwriter made her one of the quintessential musicians of the 20th century, even though her life was brief and often punctuated by ...