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"Strange Fruit" is a song written and composed by Abel Meeropol (under his pseudonym Lewis Allan) and recorded by Billie Holiday in 1939. The lyrics were drawn from a poem by Meeropol published in 1937.
Aug 25, 2020 · In March 1939, a 23-year-old Billie Holiday walked up to the mic at West 4th's Cafe Society in New York City to sing her final song of the night. Per her request, the waiters stopped serving...
Originally written in 1937 by Abel Meeropol, “Strange Fruit” is a dark and profound song centered around the lynching of African Americans in the Southern United States during the Jim Crow Era.
Dec 22, 2011 · lyrics Strange Fruit Southern trees bear strange fruit Blood on the leaves and blood at the root Black bodies swinging in the southern breeze Strange fruit hanging from the poplar trees...
Apr 17, 2019 · Cultural critic Emily J Lordi is describing the particular power of a song that still shocks 80 years after it was first performed. On 20 April 1939, the jazz singer Billie Holiday (born Eleanora...
Apr 12, 2021 · April 12, 2021 | Liz Fields. The mesmerizing performance from Academy Award-nominated actress and singer Andra Day in “The United States Vs. Billie Holiday” has revived interest in the...
“Strange Fruit” is a song performed most famously by Billie Holiday, who first sang and recorded it in 1939. Written by a white, Jewish high school teacher from the Bronx and a member of the Communist Party, Abel Meeropol wrote it as a protest poem, exposing American racism, particularly the lynching of African Americans.
Feb 28, 2021 · Holiday referred to the song as her "personal protest," and it certainly differed from her typical material. In the song, the image of "Strange Fruit" serves as a shocking metaphor for bodies hanging from trees, the victims of racist lynch mobs in the US in the early decades of the 20th century.
Jul 13, 2016 · Billie Holiday - Strange fruit (lyric video) Subscribe http://bit.ly/2mictQ3
Aug 5, 2021 · Today in History: The Legacy of “Strange Fruit” (Op-Ed) David Margolick | August 5, 2021. “Far from being dated, ‘Strange Fruit’ in 2021 seems more relevant, and resonant, than ever.”...
