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Billie Holiday
Billie Holiday, born Eleanora Fagan, was a legendary jazz and blues singer. Known for her emotive and unique vocal style, she had a career spanning over 30 years and recorded iconic songs such as "Strange Fruit" and "God Bless the Child". Holiday tragically passed away at the age of 44 due to complications from substance abuse.
Titles credited to Billie Holiday
Jazz
Jazz is a ten part series that explores the evolution – and the genius – of America’s greatest original art form, focusing on the extraordinary men and women who could do something remarkable – create...
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Lady Day: The Many Faces of Billie Holiday
Lady Day: The Many Faces of Billie Holiday integrates film and video performances, recordings, words from her controversial autobiography (read by actress Ruby Dee) and interviews with artists who pla...
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Symphony in Black: A Rhapsody of Negro Life
A rising nineteen-year-old singer by the name of Billie Holiday made her screen debut in this musical landmark, which features Duke Ellington and his orchestra performing his symphonic jazz piece “A R...
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Billie
‘Lady Day’ was one of the greatest jazz vocalists the world ever heard. In 1971, journalist Linda Lipnack Kuehl set out to write the definitive biography of Billie Holiday. Before her mysterious death...
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The Emperor Jones
Unscrupulously ambitious, Brutus Jones escapes from jail after killing a guard and, through bluff and bravado, finds himself the emperor of a Caribbean island.
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