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07/12
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Billie Holiday Strange Fruit
This day (July 17, 1959), in New York City, New York, died Billie Holiday a.k.a Eleanora Harris, an American jazz singer and songwriter who had a seminal influence on jazz and pop singing and a vocal style, strongly inspired by jazz instrumentalists, pioneered a new way of manipulating phrasing and tempo.
CREDITS
Image : Billie Holiday Photo by fertilegroundportland
Video : Billie Holiday – Strange Fruit . Billie Holiday – What A Little Moonlight Can Do (1958) . Billie Holiday – Fine And Mellow (1957) . Billie Holiday & Louis Armstrong – The Blues Are Brewin’ . Billie Holiday – Foolin’ Myself . Billie Holiday – I Only Have Eyes For You – Travelin’ Light (1956) . Billie Holiday & Count Basie – God Bless the Child / nor or Never (1952) .
