Billie Holiday
Singer Christine Tobin guides Alyn Shipton through the Billie Holiday鈥檚 best work. Billie Holiday's short life produced a remarkable recorded legacy, blending anguish with ecstasy.
Singer Christine Tobin guides Alyn Shipton through the best work from Billie Holiday's early and late career. Widely acknowledged as one of the finest singers in jazz history, Billie Holiday's short life produced a remarkable recorded legacy, in which anguish blended with ecstasy as she sang of unrequited love. Her voice changed with age and hard living, and among the highlights are Good Morning Heartache, My Man and the emotional wasteland of Strange Fruit, a song about a Southern lynching.
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