Billie Holiday was just 44 when she died in 1959. Yet she continues to rank among America’s greatest jazz singers while her notoriously — and well publicized — troubled life of addiction ...

What portrait of her do you think did emerge from listening to these tapes especially? If one was to try and make a Billie Holiday film today, from scratch, you’d go out and you’d interview ...

Roston stars as Billie Holiday in “Lady Day at Emerson’s ... and the pair present a polished portrait of a megastar come undone, even if, at times, the character’s tumult calls for pandemonium.

Billie Holiday National Portrait Gallery Maya Angelou and Billie Holiday Holiday, Billie (Fagan, Eleanora) National Museum of American History Strange Fruit; Fine and Mellow National Museum of African ...

In "The United States Vs. Billie Holiday," federal agents wage a vigorous campaign for years to make her stop singing "Strange Fruit," that scathing portrait of lynching as a Southern tradition.

Billie Holiday‘s release ... Writer Julia Blackburn paints a “complex, contradictory, and enthralling” portrait of Holiday through the stories of those who shared the stage, streets ...

How many Broadway shows has Billie Holiday been in? Billie Holiday has appeared on Broadway in 1 shows. How many West End shows has Billie Holiday been in? Billie Holiday has not appeared in the ...

July 17 marks the anniversary of death of the incomparable singer, Ms. Billie Holiday. Few vocalists before or since have been able to spin such emotional depth through such a lovely yet fragile ...

Flashback Friday: Billie Holiday Today, July 16, marks the passing of the incomparable singer Ms. Billie Holiday. Few vocalists before or since have been able to spin such emotional depth through ...

On Oct. 5, 1958, Billie Holiday took the stage at the inaugural Monterey Jazz Festival. Then America’s preeminent jazz singer, she closed the event with an effortlessly sophisticated 11-song set ...

I ain’t doing it tonight.” Moments later, Roz White is smiling behind the mic as Billie Holiday, a pro who knows how to hit her mark. We’re in Philadelphia, a city Billie admits she hates ...

Billie Holiday was many things — songwriter, vocalist, poet, a woman whose jazz-influenced vocals forever changed the way singers interpret the American songbook. But for the actress Alexis J.