Billie Holiday was an American jazz singer and songwriter. Her vocal style was strongly influenced by instrumental jazz, and she developed a completely unique way of phrasing and relating to the tempo, and therefore she has put lasting traces in modern vocal jazz.
We can think of anything conceivable when going to the music, and as an artist you have to choose something in the freedom, diversity and precision that you are confronted with in life. Billie Holiday was born on 7 April 1915 in Philadelphia in Pennsylvania in the United States, and she died on 17 July 1959, and hence she was 44 years old when she died. She died in NYC Health + Hospitals/Metropolitan in New York in the United States of America. Her music genre was jazz. She was married three times, and her spouses were Jimmy Monroe from 1941 to 1947, Joe Guy from 1951 to 1957, and Louis McKay from 1957 to 1959. Her parents were Sarah Julia Fagan and Clarence Holiday.
You find Billie Holiday on the ordinary music platforms today, for instance YouTube, YouTube Music, Spotify and Deezer. And you can listen to the music you just like from her from time to time. And everything we are doing in life has a choice in its manner, and otherwise we are doing all conceivable things or nothing, and life is music is to choose the style that you just imagine and have imaginations within.
Holiday won four Grammy Awards, all of them posthumously, for Best Historical Album. She was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame and the National Rhythm & Blues Hall of Fame. She was also inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, though not in that genre; the website states that "Billie Holiday changed jazz forever". Several films about her life have been released, most recently The United States vs. Billie Holiday (2021).
There are different songs from Billie Holiday which are popular and famous still the time we are living today. And some of them are: «Don’t Explain», and that we should not explain everything we are doing, although we can be forced to that. Life is living a game, and this game should not be a boring game, but it should be an interesting and exciting game! And Billie Holiday got a nickname in her life and that was «Lady Day». And she was interesting in music, and the most pleasure in life she gave to the jazz and to the swing! Dancing and doing new things in the life we are trying to explain and to explore in all manners, were the things that Billie Holiday did more and more in her life. And she was visible and strong, and hence she is an example for many people trying to achieve something in life.
Billie Holiday was together with people in life, mastering being included in films, and you have to be modern and non-bureaucratic and flexible and open and dynamic to be as good as you can in films, and to be wanted to be given positions together with demanding and funny people. And to give the audience the best and strongest experiences than they have had ever. Billie Holiday was included in films like: “Billie”, “Lady Sings the Blues”, “New Orleans” and “Strange Fruit”. And many things in life can be made strange, unless you are thinking that you now should know what you do not know today. Billie Holiday has also produced music albums like for instance: “Lady in Satin”, “Billie Holiday Sings”, “The Essential Billie Holiday: Carnegie Hall Concert Recorded Live” and “Body and Soul”. You also find some music pieces of Billie Holiday on the music videos on the Internet, and they are: “Strange Fruit” and “The Best of Classics Masters”. And Billie Holiday also had some “Billie Blues” with “I Love My Man”.
Why was Billie Holiday significant in our lives in the world, among all the people that lived when she was living? Well. Billie Holiday was one of the greatest jazz singers from the 1930s to the ’50s. She had no formal musical training, but, with an instinctive sense of musical structure and a deep knowledge of jazz and blues, she developed a singing style that was deeply moving and individual.
So, enjoy life and perceive what you want, and make the life as the journey you just wish!
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Good article about outstanding singer Billie Holiday. You haven't said anything about her turbulent life, but that's ok.
and the brotherhood between all human beings regardless of their gender, beliefs or skin color.
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Thank you! :)