Billie Holiday made a single, wry nod to gospel in "God Bless the Child," an ersatz spiritual that quotes a nonexistent Bible verse. The stylized gospel-choir chorus on the 1950 Decca recording ...

as the apparition of Raphaela's mom Juanita sat down at the piano and—over the sound of the dying crowd noise—played into a hushed version of Billie Holiday's "My Man," singing in a hushed voice over ...

Jazz singer Billie Holiday vs the US Government?! Her song Strange Fruit written by Abel Meeropol about the treatment of African Americans in the community is what started the whole altercation.

One of the most important stops on the tour I lead of "Billie Holiday’s Harlem” is 108 West 139th Street. Billie Holiday lived in this apartment building during a crucial period of the early ...

The town house where jazz legend Billie Holiday once lived has sold for $10.5 million, per the New York Post. The uptown apartment was sold in 2017 for $9.5 million before returning to the market ...

As a part of its 2024-25 Season, The Billie Holiday Theatre will present the next edition of BILLIE & BEYOND, a new expansive music series inspired by the artistry and legacy of the ...

Sixty-five years ago, on July 17, 1959, Billie Holiday died at Metropolitan Hospital in New York. The 44-year-old singer arrived after being turned away from a nearby charity hospital on evidence ...

Billie Holiday's recording of the anti-lynching song "Strange Fruit" has stirred and haunted generations of listeners. A new article in the Journal of African American History, titled ...

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 ...

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 ...

THERE ARE 20 BOXES OF MATERIAL, A RECEIPT OR A LETTER THAT HAS A CERTAIN LETTERHEAD AND A CERTAIN DATE ON IT, OR A POLICE REPORT ABOUT SOMETHING THAT HAPPENED TO BILLIE HOLIDAY OR, YOU KNOW ...