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Dec 22, 2011 · 26.2K subscribers. Subscribed. 125K. 10M views 12 years ago. lyrics Strange Fruit ...more. lyrics Strange Fruit Southern trees bear strange fruit Blood on the leaves and blood at the...
Apr 17, 2019 · 17 April 2019. By Aida Amoako,Features correspondent. Alamy. Billie Holiday recorded her iconic version of Strange Fruit on 20 April 1939. Eighty years on – in the first of our Songs that Made...
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 hauntingly...
“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 16, 2011 · Written by a Jewish communist called Abel Meeropol, Strange Fruit was not by any means the first protest song, but it was the first to shoulder an explicit political message into the arena of...
Sep 5, 2012 · One of Billie Holiday's most iconic songs is "Strange Fruit," a haunting protest against the inhumanity of racism. Many people know that the man who wrote the song was inspired by a...
Feb 27, 2021 · 'Strange Fruit': The history behind Billie Holiday's 'radioactive' protest song that inspired Hulu film. Patrick Ryan. USA TODAY. In March 1939, a then-23-year-old Billie Holiday closed out her...
