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The first popular jazz singer to move audiences with the intense, personal feeling of classic blues, Billie Holiday changed the art of American pop vocals forever. Almost fifty years after her death, it's difficult to believe that prior to her emergence, jazz and pop singers were tied to the Tin Pan Alley tradition and rarely personalized their songs; only blues singers like Bessie Smith and Ma Rainey actually gave the impression they had lived through what they were singing. Billie Holiday's highly stylize... Read More
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BD7/Blk Phoenix Nowhereville Unit... |
07.09.08 When is the man I love coming? |
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07.08.08 " Damn, I sound GOOD!!! |
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ellen mceniry London United Kin... |
06.13.08 THIS LADY SINGS THE BLUES!!!! |
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*Sofia* Barcelona Spain |
06.03.08 Su musica me llega al alma. Me recuerda a tiempos pasado y me relaja. |
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BD7/Blk Phoenix Nowhereville Unit... |
05.15.08 My Billie.........mother of the real Blues! Real BLUES! LOVE HER! |
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sage Los Angeles, CA |
05.08.08 she is the beauty we are her song |
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BD7/Blk Phoenix Nowhereville Unit... |
04.18.08 She died with 7 cents in the bank. Her manager took her for everything! VERY hard life! |
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04.18.08 Billie's Ghost talks to me! ?? LOL! I LOVE HER! XO |
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She's classic-a voice that expresses the struggle of the human condition some painful stuff-her heart was good-just beaten down...God Bless you Billie...