Patrons would often walk out the moment she started singing ... she sang "Strange Fruit," Billie was reminded of her father's death. In her autobiography, Billie wrote that Clarence Holiday ...

By the time Holiday launched her singing career ... More information: Samuel Galen Ng, Professional Mourning: Billie Holiday's "Strange Fruit" and the Remaking of Black Consciousness, The Journal ...

the director of Strange Fruit, a documentary about the thirties anti-lynching protest song. Written by Abel Meeropol, the somber elegy was claimed as her own by Billie Holiday, who spread its ...

Performance footage of Billie Holiday may admittedly be scant but this issue compiles into a single release song cuts from some of Holidays live filmed performances that are still existent Rare ...

So Time magazine wrote in 1999 when they voted "Strange Fruit" the Song of the Century. The jazz singer referred to was Billie Holiday who came to be so closely associated with the song that she ...