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Photograph of Billie Holiday by Robin Carson, ca. 1940. 2013.46.25.90. Her autobiography Lady Sings the Blues became a top-seller focusing on her complicated and often difficult life. Throughout her life, Holiday faced many personal tragedies and became addicted to drugs. She served a prison sentence and reportedly had several dalliances with ...
13. Okt. 2023 · Billie Holiday was Eleanora Fagan during her years growing up with her mother in Baltimore at 219 S. Durham St. The building has been designated as the Billie Holiday House. They also lived for a time in the house next door, at 217 S. Durham. Holiday, for many years during and after her life, was thought to have been born in Baltimore.
8. Feb. 2020 · Billie Holiday. Lady Day was a brilliant singer, a great lyrical interpreter, she took chances, lived life hard, she could swing, she could swoon, she moaned low, was elegant and she was a soul ...
Written and directed by James Erskine, the film is based around interviews recorded on audio cassettes through the 1970s by Linda Lipnack Kuehl. The interviews feature the first-hand recollections of Lady Day’s friends, family members, band members, Follow Billie Holiday's history through this timeline of events in her life.
15. Jan. 2024 · That’s certainly the case with Billie Holiday’s Lady In Satin (1958), which catches both the singers musical genius and deteriorating health little more than a year before her death aged just 44. Jazz critic Nick Lea picks up the story of one of the most iconic jazz albums of all time. Lady In Satin is often regarded as a classic yet ...
Billie Holiday, geboren als Elionora Harris und ursprünglich Eleanora Fagan [2] genannt, (* 7. April 1915 in Philadelphia; [3] † 17. Juli 1959 in New York City) zählt mit Ella Fitzgerald und Sarah Vaughan zu den bedeutendsten US-amerikanischen Jazzsängerinnen .
13. Jan. 2021 · In the 1970s, journalist Linda Lipnack Kuehl embarked on a deep dive into Billie Holiday’s history with an eye towards writing a more comprehensive and truthful biography than that which was available. Kuehl spend eight years interviewing the artist’s friends, relatives, peers, business associates, even an FBI narcotics agent and a prison ...
