Back in the 1950s, when the American people were buying television sets and driving gas guzzlers on brand new superhighways under the threat of nuclear war, singer Billie Holiday was still ... a thing ...

Billie Holiday (1915-59) is one of the greatest singers ... “Mean to Me” (No. 7) and “Pennies From Heaven” (No. 3) are both classic recordings (featuring Lester Young and Goodman ...

At the intersection of artistry and addiction, director Lee Daniels found his connection with late blues icon Billie Holiday ... recounted in the 1972 classic “Lady Sings the Blues ...

“Lady Day: The Best of Billie Holiday,” Legacy. A two-CD set containing many of the classic sides Holiday cut for Columbia and its Brunswick, Vocalion and Okeh labels in the 1930s and early ...

Here are a few suggestions: "Lady Day: The Best of Billie Holiday," Legacy. A two-CD set containing many of the classic sides Holiday cut for Columbia and its Brunswick, Vocalion and Okeh labels ...

Billie Holiday is widely considered jazz’s pre-eminent singer. Frank Sinatra once said that “with few exceptions, every major pop singer in the U.S. during her generation has been touched in ...

Billie Holiday grew up in Baltimore in the 1920s ... recognizing its historical significance. "Solitude," a classic Duke Ellington composition, sounds very lonely the way Holiday sings it.

Billie Holiday,” manages to get it only half right ... Daniels, who seems to have made the classic mistake of falling in love with his subject, apparently doesn’t have time for such nuance.

My mom inspired my DIY work ethic, and Billie Holiday’s inspired her to write her best-known song, the classic “God Bless the Child.” The jazz and blues legend also known as Lady Day shared ...

Billie Holiday had reasons to sing the blues ... Her career took off with songs like “God Bless the Child” and her devastating classic “Strange Fruit,” but she was confronted with heckling ...

Mariah Carey — they all take a page out of Billie’s playbook.” Ultimately, Holiday crafted what Nichelle Gainer, author of “Vintage Black Glamour,” calls “a classic, sleek timeless ...