Billie Holiday
Billie Holiday
1915 – 1959
Incomparable jazz legend, known for vocal elegance, dramatic intensity, and great improvisational skills, who unapologetically performed her signature song 'Strange Fruit' as a declaration against American racism
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Billie Holiday (1915 – 1959) was a Harlem-based singer and jazz legend who courageously made public a wide range of personal and political truths, notably recording 1939’s anti-lynching song “Strange Fruit,” widely considered one of America’s most influential protest songs