When Billie Holiday stepped onto a stage, it wasn’t just her voice that turned heads—it was her presence. Known as Lady Day, she embodied a timeless kind of beauty that can’t be replicated ...

Jazz singer Billie Holiday vs the US Government?! Her song Strange Fruit written by Abel Meeropol about the treatment of African Americans in the community is what started the whole altercation ...

In the early 1930s, a teenage Billie Holiday, born Eleanora Fagan, was said to have moved to the building at 108 West 139th Street with her mother. While living in that apartment, Holiday began to ...

On Christmas Day, Marvel Studios released a new poster for The Fantastic 4: First Steps and it features a "4" holiday ornament and some well-wishes from Marvel's First Family. The film is set against ...

As a part of its 2024-25 Season, The Billie Holiday Theatre will present the next edition of BILLIE & BEYOND, a new expansive music series inspired by the artistry and legacy of the institution ...

John Szwed’s 2016 biography, Billie Holiday: The Musician and The Myth, made its purpose clear from its subtitle onwards. Credit too to Robert O’Meally’s The Many Faces of Billie Holiday, which, like ...

On Oct. 5, 1958, Billie Holiday took the stage at the inaugural Monterey Jazz Festival. Then America’s preeminent jazz singer, she closed the event with an effortlessly sophisticated 11-song set ...

In 1959, during what would be the final months of her life, Billie Holiday was unwell. The singer—who had honed her art in the brothels of Baltimore, fronted orchestras led by Count Basie and ...

On July 17, 1958, exactly one year before she died, Billie Holiday performed on the television show “Art Ford’s Jazz Party.” Ford, like most jazz lovers, was a Holiday devotee, and he almost ...

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 ...