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12. Aug. 2019 · The brilliant scholar and 1960s cultural icon Angela Davis makes the point that most common portraits of Billie Holiday “highlight drug addiction, alcoholism, feminine weakness, depression, lack ...
Holiday mostly used narcotics such as cannabis, heroin, and cocaine. The FBN was especially interested in targeting the use of opioids such as heroin, to curb the rampant addiction in the US. Anslinger also had a personal aversion to cannabis, although it was reportedly nowhere near as dangerous as opioids. This contributed to Holiday being a ...
21. Juni 2021 · Billie Holiday's hard life and hard living took a toll and by the 1950s, her addiction worsened, according to PBS' American Masters. At the height of her career, she was making roughly $1,000 a week, and much of it went toward feeding her drug habit. Sadly, like some of her contemporaries, years of drug and alcohol abuse badly beat her body, culminating in a cirrhosis diagnosis. According to
3. Apr. 2014 · Billie Holiday was one of the most influential jazz singers of all time. She had a thriving career for many years before she lost her battle with addiction.
2. Jan. 2023 · Billie Holiday, probably the most moving, unadulterated jazz singer of all time, was born on 7 April 1915. When she died 44 years later, on 17 April 1959, she still had a long career ahead of her as a cultural icon, yet to try and reconstruct her life as that of an ordinary woman beset by trial and tribulation is to misunderstand her with a degree of perversity equal to her own.
1. Apr. 2015 · Holiday sought treatment for heroin addiction, but was eventually arrested for drug possession in 1947 and ended up serving 10 months in a federal prison. Her conviction meant her “cabaret card ...
27. Feb. 2021 · Johann Hari’s drug policy and addiction-concept-reform book, Chasing the Scream, in which Billie Holliday’s persecution at the hands of federal drug enforcement pioneer Harry Anslinger is ...
