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Sep 5, 2012 · One of Billie Holiday's most iconic songs is "Strange Fruit," a haunting protest against the inhumanity of racism. Many people know that the man who wrote the song was inspired by a photograph of ...
Jun 22, 2009 · "Strange Fruit" Billie Holiday introduced the song at Greenwich Village's Cafe Society in 1939; the tiny basement club in Sheridan Square was the scene of unprecedented racial mixing.
Holiday eventually recorded “Strange Fruit” with Commodore Records and distributed through Vocalion Records. Since called “a declaration” and “the beginning of the civil rights movement,” Billie Holiday continued regularly singing “Strange Fruit” for twenty years.
Aug 7, 2020 · In the first six months of this year, Billie Holiday‘s 1939 recording of “Strange Fruit” — the first and most famous version of the song — was streamed more than 2 million times ...
Apr 27, 2019 · Strange Fruit (Meeropol) by Billie Holiday and her Orchestra, piano interlude by Sonny WhiteA poem on the horrors of lynching provided the basis for this fam...
The United States vs. Billie Holiday: Directed by Lee Daniels. With Andra Day, Leslie Jordan, Miss Lawrence, 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 has a tumultuous affair.
Feb 27, 2021 · "Strange Fruit" is the song that made Billie Holiday into an enduring cultural icon, and it still holds a monumental spot in the history of civil rights in America. Holiday, who is portrayed by ...
