Upon the death of July 17, 1959, the singer Billie Holiday was 44 years old. The diagnosis, reported The New York Times , was “complicated congestion lungs with a heart attack”. Moreover, he added, “had been under arrest in his hospital bed since June 13 for possession of illegal narcotics.”
Lady Day, as he called his friend Lester Young, was unable to get rid of shadow of his personal life. He is known more for sordid episodes as a young rape, her relationship with men who abused her or his addiction to drugs, which by its originality as an interpreter.
For the writer and activist Amiri Baraka, singers as Billie Holiday, Sarah Vaughan and Ella Fitzgerald took any song and turned “American classical music, but Billie was always as a leader in this type of process. Magazines like Down Beat or Metronome said on one of their latest albums.. ‘It’s getting weaker’ But I thought I was doing other music In these last songs, as in “Violets for Your Furs’, ‘You’ve Changed’ ‘You are My Thrill’ and all that, a new period in it. Not that the previous period is weak, but this is a new period and are not used to listen well, but great music “.
His genius is celebrated the centennial of his birth. The Apollo Theater in Harlem, where she performed on several occasions, today inaugurated a star with his name on his Walk of Fame. On Friday, the singer Cassandra Wilson in concert presented his latest album, Coming Forth by Day , a tribute to Holiday.
The Jazz at Lincoln Center in New York perform a festival to “celebrate an artist of monumental innovation” from today until April 12. . It will include the presentation of singers like Cécile McLorin Salvant, Shenel Johns, Molly Ryan, Andy Bey and Joey Arias
The company Columbia Records has been meager, as only he released Billie Holiday & amp; Her Orchestra The Centennial Collection , an anthology of his most famous pieces on a disk. At least they could have reissued Lady Day: The Complete Billie Holiday on Columbia: 1933-1944 ten albums
John Szweed recently published biography Billie Holiday. The Musicians and the Myth a rigorous text, by musician and director of the Center for Jazz Studies at Columbia University.
And Baltimore, the city where he spent his childhood after being born in Philadelphia? In the newspaper Capital Gazette is said that “there is no significant event to highlight the centennial.” But local artists, they do not expect sponsorships conduct their taxes. For example, Rhonda Robinson sing in front of the house where he lived as a child in Durham Street.
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