Billie Holiday
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Birth Name: Eleanora Fagan Gough
Born: 7 April 1915 Died: 17 July 1959
Country of origin: United States
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A Change of Names
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Published 15 years, 8 months ago
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Gone, but not forgotten
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Some Good Quotes I Like
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Published 11 years, 9 months ago
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Published 12 years, 12 months ago
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Imaginary Meeting- Listal Game
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Published 10 years, 9 months ago
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The first popular jazz singer to move audiences with the intense, personal feeling of classic blues, Billie Holiday changed the art of American pop vocals forever. More than a half-century after her death, it's difficult to believe that prior to her emergence, jazz and pop singers were tied to the Tin Pan Alley tradition and rarely personalized their songs; only blues singers like Bessie Smith and Ma Rainey actually gave the impression they had lived through what they were singing. Billie Holiday's highly stylized reading of this blues tradition revolutionized traditional pop, ripping the decades-long tradition of song plugging
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3. Watchmen: Music from the Motion Picture (2009)
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1. Page Eight (2011)
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2. Brother Can You Spare a Dime (1975)
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3. Standing in the Shadows of Motown (2002)
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4. Emperor Jones (1933)
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1. Jazz
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2. It's Black Entertainment (2002)
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3. Tonight!
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4. We, the People (1948)
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5. The Seven Lively Arts (1957)
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1. Lady Sings the Blues (1972)
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