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Billie holiday

Billie holiday. “Lady Day”. Billie holiday. April 7, 1915 – July 17, 1959 African-American American Jazz singer and songwriter Nicknamed "Lady Day"

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Billie holiday

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  1. Billie holiday “Lady Day”

  2. Billie holiday • April 7, 1915 – July 17, 1959 • African-American American Jazz singer and songwriter • Nicknamed "Lady Day" • Holiday had a ground-breaking influence on jazz and pop singing. Her vocal style, strongly inspired by jazz instrumentalists, pioneered a new way of manipulating phrasing and tempo • Wore a trademark flower, a gardenia, in her hair when she performed

  3. Famous Songs • God Bless the Child“ • "Don't Explain“ • "Fine and Mellow“ • and "Lady Sings the Blues" • She also became famous for singing "Strange Fruit", a protest song which became one of her standards and was made famous with her 1939 recording. • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bWtUzdI5hlE&feature=kp

  4. Experiences • As her reputation grew, Holiday played at many clubs • Holiday describes one incident in her autobiography where she could not sit on the bandstand with other vocalists because she was black. When touring the American South, Holiday would sometimes be heckled by members of the audience. In Louisville, Kentucky a man called her a "n----- wench" and requested she sing another song. Holiday lost her temper and needed to be escorted off the stage. • In November 1938 Holiday was asked to use the service elevator at the Lincoln Hotel, instead of the passage elevator, because white patrons of the hotels complained. This may have been the last straw for her. She left the band shortly after. Holiday spoke about the incident weeks later, saying "I was never allowed to visit the bar or the dining room as did other members of the band ... [and] I was made to leave and enter through the kitchen." • On November 10, 1956, Holiday performed two concerts before packed audiences at Carnegie Hall, a major accomplishment for any artist, especially a black artist of the segregated period of American history. She received 3 curtain calls (standing ovations).

  5. Segregation and Protests for Equal Rights

  6. A few of the Singers influenced by “lady day” • Beyonce • Queen Latifah • Cristina Aguilera • Tupac Shakur • Kanye West • Janis Joplin & Diana Ross

  7. Her impact • Music critic Robert Christgau called her "uncoverable, possibly the greatest singer of the century". • In September 1943, Life Magazine wrote: "She has the most distinct style of any popular vocalist and is imitated by other vocalists." • Frank Sinatra was influenced by her performances as a young man. He told Ebony in 1958 about her impact: “It is Billie Holiday who was, and still remains, the greatest single musical influence on me. Lady Day is unquestionably the most important influence on American popular singing in the last twenty years.”

  8. “strange fruit” • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Web007rzSOI

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