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On April 7, 2015, the legendary singer have turned 100 years. DN remember a life and a career in six points.
On April 7, 2015, the legendary singer have turned 100 years. DN remember a life and a career in six points.
first The Life and Death
Billie Holiday was born in 1915 and died in 1959, a heavy drinker and drug addiction. The biography “Lady Sings the Blues” spökskrevs by William Dufty 1956. Factual error and självförhärliganden makes it unfortunately unreliable source of information. 1972 filmed it just the same with Diana Ross in the lead role.
second The most famous recording
“Strange Fruit” depicts the lynching of black citizens in the American South; The “fruit” of the poplar tree in the text is in fact a victim of a hanging. Lyrics and melody written in 1936 by Abel Meeropol under the pseudonym of Lewis Allen. Billie Holiday claimed to wrongly participated. The song caught up with vigilant of the civil rights movement.
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3rd The days of glory
1935 to 1942 played Holiday in small groups in their own name or under the direction of Teddy Wilson. On several songs involved tenor saxophonist Lester Young. From the mid to late 40′s made a series of recordings with the string section. Some have small jazz to do, but vocally Holiday in his element. Since 1950, she was in poor condition but her ability to bring lyrics still held high class.
4th Blues – or not
Although the word blues often mentioned in connection with the Holiday sang so she rarely outright blues songs. Nevertheless, she was masterful at just that and left behind, among others, “Billie’s Blues” to Cassandra Wilson and “Fine and Mellow” to José James and Rebecca Ferguson.
5th The collections
In the harvest of the new compilation album proposes two options of Legacy / Sony. The box “Lady Day. The master takes & amp; Singles “includes four discs in addition to an informative statement covers most. But even budget or time-saving alternative “The Centennial Collection”, with twenty songs on one disc, testifies well of Holidays greatness.
6th The playlist
Below you can listen to the DN Kultur selection of the 10 best Billie Holiday songs.
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