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She sang about “Strange Fruit” - and America tried to silence her
Billie Holiday rose from poverty and trauma to become one of the most influential jazz singers in history, her voice instantly recognizable for its emotion and raw vulnerability. In 1939, she recorded ...
This Valentine’s Day, listen to Billie Holiday and Lester Young’s collaborations to experience art truly made from a place of love, writes Colin Fleming.
"A White Jewish producer, and the greatest Black jazz singer of all-time, and an all-Black band, working together to produce art," Crystal says ...
El Cerrito, CA — Contra Costa Civic Theatre is thrilled to announce that their 2025/26 Concert Series will continue this April with Stella Heath’s The Billie Holiday Project, a one-night-only concert ...
The music of legendary jazz vocalist Billie Holiday will fill the Charleston Music Hall at a Feb. 7 concert with the ...
The Billie Holiday Theatre will present a staged reading of TWELVE ANGRY BLACK WOMEN, an unflinching, experimental, and richly speculative theatrical work from award-winning playwright and storyteller ...
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