Billie Holiday
Biography
The first popular jazz singer to move audiences with the intense, personal feeling of classic blues, Billie Holiday changed the art of American pop vocals forever. Almost fifty years after her death, it's difficult to believe that prior to her emergence, jazz and pop singers were tied to the Tin Pan Alley tradition and rarely personalized their songs; only blues singers like Bessie Smith and Ma Rainey actually gave the impression they had lived through what they were singing. Billie Holiday's highly stylized reading of this blues tradition revolutionized traditional pop, ripping the...Read more
Discography
- Songs For Distingue Lovers (1997)
- Compact Jazz - Billie Holiday (1987)
- Billie Holiday - The Complete Decca Sessions (1986)
- The Billie Holiday Songbook (1986)
- The Silver Collection (1984)
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Relationships
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- John Levy
- Relationship
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- Lester Young
- Relationship
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- Orson Welles
- Relationship
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- Louis McKay
- 1957-1959 Married
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Pictures
Lyrics
- A Fine Romance
- A Fine Romance
- A Foggy Day
- A Sailboat In The Moonlight
- A Sunsetbonnet Blue (and A Yellow Straw Hat)
- Ain't Nobody's Business If I Do
- All Of Me
- All Or Nothing At All
- Am I Blue?
- April In My Heart
Mp3's
- Miss Brown To You
- What A Little Moonlight Can Do
- I Cried For You
- Billie's Blues (I Love My Man)
- A Sailboat In The Moonlight
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