Billie Holiday (born Eleanora Harris (1915–1959) was an African American jazz singer and songwriter. Her singing style‚ strongly inspired by jazz musicians‚ lead to a new way of using word choice and rhythm. A critic named John Bush once wrote that Holiday "changed the art of American pop vocals forever." She only co-wrote a few songs‚ but a number of them have become jazz standards that many musicians strive to live up to. Some of these standards were set by songs of hers such as "God Bless the
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Therefore‚ during the great depression‚ people made several types of music and especially blues and jazz were one of medicines to heal the hopeless people in that period. There are several famous musicians in that period. But‚ I want to talk about Billie Holiday. She was uneducated woman and lived in unstable life cycle because of side affecting the great depression. So‚ she worked in the bar as singer. However‚ her talent of sing was very outstanding. As result‚ she recorded with best jazz band and
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Eleanora Fagan‚ a popular American jazz singer and songwriter‚ is one of the most influential and powerful vocal jazz singers. Also known as Billie Holiday‚ Eleanora Fagan is best known for capturing the attention of her audience with her amazing vocal and delivery skills. Her extraordinary manipulation of phrasing‚ tempo‚ and improvisation skills‚ make her an influential pioneer in American jazz music. Although she received some formal education from known artists such as Bessie Smith‚ and influence
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Billie Holiday was known‚ as one of America’s most memorable and influential all-time great jazz vocalist. The inspiration for many aspiring singers today. Holiday had a successful career for many years before she lost her battle with addiction. Holiday was one of the best singers in the early 19th century and was discovered in 1932. She had a deep childhood that impacted her life to become a singer but also had influenced her to do drugs. Holiday smoked marijuana since she was young and then started
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In Billie Holiday’s version‚ the song begins with a duo play of piano and trumpet‚ which creates a strong atmosphere of how a haunting story begins. When I was hearing the beginning section‚ the rhythm made me feel like I was holding a glass of brandy and sitting at the dark corner of a distressed bar where the singer described the story of a piece of pathetic history. This version does not present a clear pulse but the spacing between the lyrics and the arrangement of the instruments highlight the
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The Hunting of Billie Holiday‚ Johann Hari‚ Politico Magazine In the early days of the Federal Bureau of Narcotics‚ a racist‚ hateful man called Harry Anslinger led the agency. He faced the daunting task of proving the agency’s importance and relevance in the post-Prohibition age. And what better way to do that than by targeting high profile individuals who partake in the use of drugs? And even better if you can demonstrate to the extremely racist men leading government at the time that the agency
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In the song it describes the view of what the south looked like due to racism‚ “Southern trees bear a strange fruit/Blood on the leaves and blood at the root” (Lines 1-2). With this song‚ Holiday tries to paint an image on the audience of the horrible world that colored people had to live in back in the day. She mentions how people of color would be killed and just left there for others to see‚ “Black bodies swingin’ in the Southern breeze/Strange
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It’s about the brutal murders of African Americans by white mobs from the late 19th century to the mid 20th century known as lynching. The song was composed by a white poet and teacher‚ and was recorded by Billie Holiday. The song was Holiday’s "personal protest against racism" and it was very invested to perform the song due to risks. She was able to immediately understand the meanings and "resonated with her own anger about her father’s death." The reason that the song transformed her status in
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Why did the United States under-estimate the difficulties in bringing order and development to Afghanistan and Iraq? At the start of the twenty-first century‚ the United States engaged in two military interventions‚ the invasion of Afghanistan in 2001 and the invasion of Iraq in 2003. What were supposed to be short‚ sharp wars dragged the US into the long and failed missions of reconstructing the Afghan and Iraqi states. Today‚ 97% of Afghanistan’s licit GDP is derived from foreign aid and efforts
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The protagonist in the novel ‘Out of the dust’ by Karen Hesse‚ is a young girl‚ Billie Jo‚ and her life during the dust bowl of the 1930s. During this time period‚ Billie Jo’s life was turned upside down with all the hardships and challenges she had to face. As her father was a wheat farmer‚ Billie Jo’s family relied on the crops as their source of income. However‚ when the drought reached Oklahoma‚ the soil and their crops dried out and died‚ which meant her father could not sell the wheat for
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