"Every time I get a chance to really see how what I do or whatever impacts people in real time, that's the stuff," the singer said Marina Watts is a Digital Writer, Music at PEOPLE. She has been ...

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 because she was once arrested ...

September 13, 2024 3 min Roz White as Billie Holiday in Mosaic Theater Company’s production of “Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar and Grill.” (Chris Banks) Review by Naveen Kumar ...

Holiday’s “Strange Fruit” evokes the filled cross in its testament to lynching as ongoing reality. “It still depresses me every time I sing it,” Holiday said in her autobiography.

Billie Holiday is one of the foremost vocalists in jazz, whose emotional depth and unique phrasing inspired generations of singers to experiment with form and pitch fluctuation. Nicknamed “Lady ...