Billie Holiday is widely considered jazz’s pre-eminent singer. Frank Sinatra once said that “with few exceptions, every major pop singer in the U.S. during her generation has been touched in ...

Billie Holiday had reasons to sing the blues. Abandoned by her father and raised in Harlem by her often-unemployed mother, “we were starving,” Billie recalled. But she learned how to survive.

Billie Holiday live in 1948 at the Shrine Auditorium ... In February 1940, she entered the studio to cut yet another legendary session, this time with Roy Eldridge featured on trumpet.

sultry vibes with her long-awaited second studio album, “Cassandra (cherith).” Due to COVID, Andra Day celebrated her Golden Globe win for “The United States vs. Billie Holiday” in a hotel.

When she wasn’t in a club or at the studio—she made one of ... were revived by Lee Daniels in his 2021 Holiday biopic, “The United States vs. Billie Holiday.” To combat this reductive ...

Andra Day’s breakout acting role was playing the legendary jazz and blues singer Billie Holiday in the Hulu film The United States vs. Billie Holiday. Her powerful performance (and vocals ...

The new collection includes the earliest known photo of Billie Holiday—a posed studio shot taken in 1917 when she was 2 years old—ephemera such as programs from clubs, hand-written set lists, and a ...

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 ...