Billie Holiday ("Lady Day") is considered by many to be the greatest of all jazz singers. In a tragically abbreviated singing career that lasted less than three decades, her evocative phrasing and ...

When Billie Holiday stepped onto a stage, it wasn’t just her voice that turned heads—it was her presence. Known as Lady Day, she embodied a timeless kind of beauty that can’t be replicated ...

One of the most important stops on the tour I lead of "Billie Holiday’s Harlem” is 108 West 139th Street. Billie Holiday lived in this apartment building during a crucial period of the early ...

Billie Eilish sat down cross-legged on the Kia ... To mark both the approaching holiday and the hometown setting, she sang a pretty version of “I’ll Be Home for Christmas,” toying with ...

Holly Morton-Bowles died after drinking suspected methanol-laced spirits while on holiday in Laos ... many sobbing and dabbing their tears, as the casket bearing the Canadian and Australian ...

As a part of its 2024-25 Season, The Billie Holiday Theatre will present the next edition of BILLIE & BEYOND, a new expansive music series inspired by the artistry and legacy of the ...

In 1959, during what would be the final months of her life, Billie Holiday was unwell. The singer—who had honed her art in the brothels of Baltimore, fronted orchestras led by Count Basie and ...

We may earn commission on some of the items you choose to buy. Since Billie Holiday's death in 1959, an image of her has emerged based mainly on the movies Lady Sings the Blues and The United ...

Billie Holiday is widely considered jazz’s pre-eminent singer. Frank Sinatra once said that “with few exceptions, every major pop singer in the U.S. during her generation has been touched in ...

Billie Holiday had reasons to sing the blues. Abandoned by her father and raised in Harlem by her often-unemployed mother, “we were starving,” Billie recalled. But she learned how to survive.

THERE ARE 20 BOXES OF MATERIAL, A RECEIPT OR A LETTER THAT HAS A CERTAIN LETTERHEAD AND A CERTAIN DATE ON IT, OR A POLICE REPORT ABOUT SOMETHING THAT HAPPENED TO BILLIE HOLIDAY OR, YOU KNOW ...

A baby photo. Taped interviews with childhood friends. Handwritten set lists on crumpled paper. With a newly acquired collection of Billie Holiday biographical materials, Johns Hopkins University ...