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Mar 7, 2012 · BILLIE HOLIDAYLYRICS:Lady sings the bluesShe's got them badShe feels so sadWants the world to knowJust what the blues is all aboutLady sings the bluesShe tel...
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Feb 8, 2021 · There are few legends whose lives have been as mythologized as Billie Holiday’s. In her 1956 autobiography, Lady Sings the Blues, Holiday and cowriter William Dufty added to her triumphant yet ...
Apr 11, 2008 · By Billie Holiday. This version of "Stars Fell on Alabama" was recorded in 1957, less than two years before Billie Holiday's untimely death at age 44. By this time, her voice had become somewhat ...
Jun 8, 2006 · Born Eleanora Fagan in 1915, Billie Holiday spent much of her young life in Baltimore, Maryland. Raised primarily by her mother, Holiday had only a tenuous connection with her father, who was a ...
Billie Holiday (1915–1959) was an American jazz singer, songwriter, actress, and an icon in American culture. Billie Holiday was born in Philadelphia to a teenage couple Sarah Julia "Sadie" Fagan and Clarence Holiday. As a young singer Hoiday became part of the vibrant Harlem Renaissance scene, performing in nightclubs and jazz clubs.
Lady Sings the Blues is an album by American jazz vocalist Billie Holiday released in December 1956. It was Holiday's last album released on Clef Records; the following year, the label would be absorbed by Verve Records. Lady Sings the Blues was taken from sessions taped during 1954 and 1956. It was released simultaneously with her ghostwritten ...
