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 ...

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.

Moore Billie Holiday ... songbook. Holiday’s versions, with sly lyric tweaks and varied pacing, show her brilliance as an interpreter, in this case of the hard-knock gospel of self-sufficiency.

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 ...

In 1959, during what would be the final months of her life, Billie Holiday was unwell. The singer—who had honed her art in the brothels of Baltimore, fronted orchestras led by Count Basie and ...

We may earn commission on some of the items you choose to buy. Since Billie Holiday's death in 1959, an image of her has emerged based mainly on the movies Lady Sings the Blues and The United ...