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 a… ...

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 ...

Becoming Billie: How Andra Day found the soul (and voice) of Lady Day For her first acting role, The United States vs. Billie Holiday's Andra Day is a Best Actress Oscar contender.

Billie Holiday died at the age of 44 in 1959. She leaves behind a legacy of great songs rendered in her uniquely evocative vocal style. But the new film "The United States Vs.

It's a portrait not only of Holiday, but also of the people who inhabited her life, and a dark and gloomy canvas of the world she inhabited. Holiday's early life is filled with prostitutes and pimps, ...

‘The United States vs. Billie Holiday’ is latest powerful film on how the federal government persecuted civil rights icons in the nid-20th century.

BILLIE HOLIDAY Takashi Seida/HULU It’s a movie called The United States Vs. Billie Holiday, so you know there must be a battle at stake. And there is.

Casting singer Andra Day, an acting novice, in the title of role of The United States vs. Billie Holiday became the key, and thus this fascinating true drama sets the record straight in a story in ...

WHEN Billie Holiday died in 1959, a Harlem graffito summed up her demise with stark simplicity: “Lady Day at forty-four/Couldn't make it anymore.” Since then, a host of biographers have tried ...

Singer Billie Holiday was born 100 years ago on April 7. For decades, her sultry, one-of-a-kind voice drew crowds and collaborators, and created hits like “God Bless the Child,” “Strange ...

Canongate has acquired Bitter Crop, a new biography by Paul Alexander of jazz icon Billie Holiday. C.e.o. Jamie Byng bought UK and Commonwealth rights – excluding Canada – from Serena Lehman ...