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"The United States vs. Billie Holiday" makes as strong a case for Holiday being a civil rights pioneer as its stunning star does for potential Oscar glory. For Holiday, the infamous tune ... Billie Holiday's chaotic life reportedly began in Baltimore on April 7, 1915 (a few reports say 1912) when she was born Eleanora Fagan Gough. Her father, Clarence Holiday, was a teenaged jazz guitarist and banjo player later to play in Fletcher Henderson's Orchestra. He never married her mother, Sadie Fagan, and left while his daughter was ...

For her role in "The United States vs. Billie Holiday," (premiering on Hulu Feb. 26), Andra Day took up smoking and lost 39 pounds. Day is nominated for a 2021 Golden Globe for Best Actress in a ...

"The United States vs. Billie Holiday" pinpoints Congress' ongoing lag to pass an anti-lynching bill, just as it failed to do so in the 1930s. Almost 50 years after "Lady Sings the Blues," "The United States vs. Billie Holiday" revisits the singer's career, through the lens of the feds hounding her. The result is a disjointed, oddly ... Diana Ross may have been another generation's Billie Holiday. But Andra Day stakes a fairly strong claim to the singer's life in "The United States vs. Billie Holiday." In a focused period ...

Billie Holiday. Holiday moved to New York with her mother in 1928. At 14, Billie was raped a second time and her attacker sentenced to a mere three months in jail. 'The United States vs. Billie Holiday' is latest powerful film on how the federal government persecuted civil rights icons in the nid-20th century. So for those of you wondering who this woman is, here are 42 tragic facts about Billie Holiday. Billie Holiday Facts 42. Early Starts. Holiday was born on April 7, 1915, in the city of Philadelphia. Her father, Clarence Holiday, was only 16 years old at the time and her mother, Sarah Fagan, was 13. Because her parents weren't married, Holiday ... Being tasked with re-creating Billie Holiday's iconic looks in "The United States vs. Billie Holiday" was a challenge for costume designer Paolo Nieddu, both because director Lee Daniels ...

Eleanora Fagan (April 7, 1915 – July 17, 1959), known professionally as Billie Holiday, was an American jazz and swing music singer with a career spanning 26 years. Nicknamed "Lady Day" by her friend and music partner Lester Young, Holiday had an innovative influence on jazz music and pop singing.Her vocal style, strongly inspired by jazz instrumentalists, pioneered a new way of manipulating ... Billie Holiday got up and sang Strange Fruit in 1939, then pretty much every night of her life for 20 years. She was incarcerated for it, and she sang it to white audiences, and this was 16 years ... Directed by Lee Daniels. With Andra Day, Trevante Rhodes, Garrett Hedlund, Natasha Lyonne. Follows Holiday during her career as she is targeted by the Federal Department of Narcotics with an undercover sting operation led by black Federal Agent Jimmy Fletcher, with whom she had a tumultuous affair. Billie Holiday is the kind of movie that seems so eager to impress the importance of its responsibility to history upon us, a movie so committed to saying We cannot look away from this — we ...

Many Billie Holiday fans may be left frustrated and perplexed by "The United States vs. Billie Holiday," now streaming on Hulu. I am not one of them. It's worth seeing for vocalist Andra Day ... Billie Holiday is considered one of the best jazz vocalists of all time, Holiday had a thriving career as a jazz singer for many years before she lost her battle with substance abuse. A clear cut example of the different treatment of celebrities with drug addiction can be seen with Billie Holiday and Judy Garland. Holiday was an African-American jazz singer who grew up poor. Garland was a white, middle-class actress and singer. Both Holiday and Garland suffered from severe addiction and alcoholism. Billie Holiday performs on stage at the Sugar Hill nightclub in Newark, N.J. Farah Jasmine Griffin's 2001 book posed a challenge to biographers and helped reimagine Holiday's legacy.

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In the opening performance of a new documentary, Billie Holiday is mesmerizing in full color. The original, decades-old footage has been colorized for emphasis, like the way her eyebrow arches to ...

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Billie Holiday was born Eleanora Fagan on April 7, 1915, in Baltimore, Maryland. (She borrowed the name "Billie" from one of her favorite movie actresses, Billie Dove.) Born to an unwed teenage mother, Sadie Fagan, Holiday's childhood was one of poverty.

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The legendary Billie Holiday, one of the greatest jazz musicians of all time, spent much of her career being adored by fans across the globe, all while the Federal Department of Narcotics targeted ...

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One night, in 1939, Billie Holiday stood on stage in New York City and sang a song that was unlike anything anyone had heard before. 'Strange Fruit' was a musical lament against lynching.

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Billie Holiday, Soundtrack: Minority Report. Billie Holiday was a true artist of her day and rose as a social phenomenon in the 1950s. Her soulful, unique singing voice and her ability to boldly turn any material that she confronted into her own music made her a superstar of her time. Today, Holiday is remembered for her masterpieces, creativity and vivacity, as many of Holiday's songs are ...

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In March 1939, a 23-year-old Billie Holiday walked up to the mic at West 4th's Cafe Society in New York City to sing her final song of the night. Per her request, the waiters stopped serving and ...

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The first time I saw myself on-screen was in 1972. The film was "Lady Sings the Blues," a cinematic masterpiece about jazz icon Billie Holiday. At 13 years old, I could not believe I was ...

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Billie Holiday's life and artistry have been analyzed, scrutinized, interpreted and embellished more than any other jazz singer in history.But the first biographer to fully immerse herself in the ...

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In the end, Billie Holiday's insistence on performing "Strange Fruit" may have been responsible for her demise. One of the primary attempts to silence her came from a man named Harry Anslinger, the first commissioner for the Federal Bureau of Narcotics, and an extreme racist, even for the 1930s.As Johann Hari details in Chasing the Scream: The First and Last Days of the War on Drugs ...

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Billie Holiday (born April 7, 1915, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA - died July 17, 1959, New York City, New York, USA) was an American jazz singer and songwriter. Daughter of jazz guitarist Clarence Holiday. Godmother of Mala Waldron. She made her debut circa 1930 singing in various nightclubs in Harlem.

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San Diego-bred singer Andra Day is so riveting as the doomed-but-defiant star of "The United States vs. Billie Holiday" that you don't need to know a thing about the late Holiday to be awed ...

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In the forthcoming drama "The United States vs. Billie Holiday," Parks, who wrote the screenplay, really gets into it, placing many of Holiday's better-known battles — with heroin ...

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"The United States vs. Billie Holiday," the Golden Globe Awards, "Billie Eilish: The World's a Little Blurry" and "Tom & Jerry" are some of the entertainment options streaming this weekend.

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Andra Day burns up the screen in her first leading role in 'The United States vs. Billie Holiday,' Lee Daniels' bio-drama chronicling the FBI's unabated persecution of the immortal jazz singer.

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Billie Holiday, born April 7, 1915 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, was a superstar of her day. She first rose to prominence in the 1930's with a unique style that reinvented the conventions of modern singing and performance. More than 80 years after making her first recording Billie's legacy continues to embody what is elegant and cool in ...

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"The United States vs. Billie Holiday" reminds of an icon's importance but also a continuing injustice, that even in 2021, America still hasn't passed legislation that would make lynching ...

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Billie Holiday's critically acclaimed song "Strange Fruit" (derived from an anti-lynching poem) got mentioned in the list of Songs of the Century by the National Endowment for the Arts. According to VH1, Billie Holiday ranks as the sixth greatest artist in the list of 100 Greatest Women in Rock n' Roll.

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For Robert O'Meally, author of "Lady Day: The Many Faces Of Billie Holiday," her untraditional performance was an essential part of her "genius." "She didn't need any training," O ...

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Diana Ross may have been another generation's Billie Holiday. But Andra Day stakes a fairly strong claim to the singer's life in "The United States vs. Billie Holiday." In a focused period ...

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'The United States vs. Billie Holiday," starring Andra Day and streaming on Hulu, is a muddled chronicle of the persecution visited on the peerless jazz vocalist in the 1940s by the Federal ...

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Never classically trained, Billie Holiday was discovered at age 18 and quickly found herself at the heart of the jazz scene, surrounded by its trappings — marijuana, alcohol and opiates — and faced with the harsh realities of segregation. When touring with white bandleader Artie Shaw, she was often forced to use the service elevators so as not to upset white patrons, prohibited from eating ...

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The United States vs. Billie Holiday is a 2021 American biographical drama film about singer Billie Holiday, based on the book Chasing the Scream: The First and Last Days of the War on Drugs by Johann Hari.Directed by Lee Daniels, the film stars Andra Day in the titular role, along with Trevante Rhodes, Natasha Lyonne, and Garrett Hedlund.. Initially set to be theatrically released by ...

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Billie Holiday backstage at Town Hall at her last major jazz concert before she became ill. Acknowledged to be one of the greatest jazz singers, Lady... Jazz singer Billie Holiday poses for a portrait in circa 1939 with a flower in her hair.

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Billie Holiday's Estranged Father Was Jazz Musician Clarence Holiday. On April 7, 1915, Billie Holiday was born Eleanora Fagan (or "Elinore Harris" as her birth certificate reportedly reads) to ...

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"The United States vs. Billie Holiday" pinpoints Congress' ongoing lag to pass an anti-lynching bill, just as it failed to do so in the 1930s.

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