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4 giorni fa · Among the songs identified with her were “ Strange Fruit,” “Fine and Mellow,” “The Man I Love,” “Billie’s Blues,” “God Bless the Child,” and “I Wished on the Moon.”
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- Billie Holiday was one of the greatest jazz singers from the 1930s to the ’50s. She had no formal musical training, but, with an instinctive sense...
- As a singer, Holiday was known for her dramatic intensity, which could render the most banal lyric profound. Among the songs identified with her we...
- Holiday began her career singing in a Harlem nightclub and made her first recordings in 1933, with Benny Goodman and others. Two years later a seri...
4 giorni fa · To accompany her autobiography, Holiday released the LP Lady Sings the Blues in June 1956. The album featured four new tracks, " Lady Sings the Blues ", " Too Marvelous for Words ", " Willow Weep for Me ", and " I Thought About You ", and eight new recordings of her biggest hits to date.
28 giu 2024 · The song was heard by upcoming Nina Simone who recorded it later in 1958 and it became Nina’s only top 40 hit in America. In 1950, Holiday appeared in a short film with Count Basie and his sextet, and sang “God Bless the Child “on the set.
1 giorno fa · Lady Sings The Blues – Volume 2 is a story about women in song, their hurts, struggles and pain while their beauty remains the same. You will be transported from the speakeasy setting to the very heart of our lady, Prinnie Stevens. Stevens rose to national stardom on the inaugural season of The Voice Australia where she battled her best ...
22 giu 2024 · Lady Sings The Blues, a story about women in song, their hurts, struggles and pain whilst their beauty remains the same, is Back! With Volume 2 to embark on more stories of the women that have shaped the history of music.
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5 giorni fa · ‘Lady singing the blues’. THE struggles, the stories and the raw vocals of the best women in song are coming to the Tanks Arts Centre tomorrow with Prinnie Stevens’ ‘Lady Sings The Blues Vol 2’ for a night of stories and hits of the women who shaped music. By Isabella Guzman Gonzalez.
2 lug 2024 · Lady Sings the Blues. With author Paul Alexander in-person with his new biography of Billie Holiday, Bitter Crop. Pop superstar Diana Ross portrays legendary jazz singer Billie Holiday in this powerful biographical drama.
