Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Billie Holiday records her penultimate album, 'Lady in Satin,' in New York in 1957. Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images Today, ...
Jazz singer Billie Holiday’s song “Strange Fruit” paints a vivid scene of the lynchings that happened across the American South in the early 20th century. The lyrics compare the hanged bodies of Black ...
Billie Holiday helped shape American popular music with her voice and unique style. But, her legacy extends way beyond music with one song in... Strange Fruit Strange Fruit Billie Holiday helped shape ...