Before Nina Simone, Nancy Wilson, or Rachelle Ferrell, there was Billie Holiday, a fierce jazz vocalist who captivated audiences with every note. Known for her unique raspy voice, she made history as ...
The Arvada Center is showing "Lady Day at Emerson's Bar & Grill," a bio-musical about jazz singer Billie Holiday.
Billie Holiday records her penultimate album, 'Lady in Satin,' in New York in 1957. Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images Today, Holiday is revered as one of the most influential musical artists of all ...
Singer Billie Holiday records her penultimate album, Lady in Satin, at the Columbia Records studio in December 1957 in New York City. [Photo: Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images] Abel Meeropol, a New ...
On July 17, 1959, the famed singer behind a controversial jazz standard once condemned as a “declaration of war” died—an ironically tragic end to an internal war the singer endured in the final years ...
Billie Holiday will undoubtedly — and deservedly — be a household name for generations to come. The revered jazz singer was just 44 years old when she passed in July 1959. “Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar ...
When Karole Foreman steps onstage at Cygnet Theatre for her star turn in “Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar & Grill” it will mark the fifth time that she’s portrayed the legendary jazz singer Billie Holiday ...
Thomasina Petrus first connected with Billie Holiday in 1986, when she was 15. "That's the year my grandmother died. She kind of raised all of us," said Petrus, who plays Holiday in "Lady Day at ...
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