![]() ![]() Billie could never understand this – she was never the black Jeanne d’Arc of America. ![]() It was sad that university professors, political agitators and religious leaders adopted the Milt Gabler Commodore record as a cause celebre. She was always overwhelmed by the poem of Lewis Allan. Billi often isnsited that Strange Fruit came at theend of a programme for she could sing nothing after it Her whole style was devoted to wrestling every shred of expression from them. They are at once an emotional, autobiographical communication of her personal tragedy and the stuff of uncomfortable but seemingly ingrained myths and legends. Her records are therefore doubly documentary Holiday the performer and holiday the ‘colourful’ female are inseparable counterparts. She holds a special rank among the great female jazz vocalists largely because, rather than in spite of, the life she led. Billy Holliday is one of the tragic cult figures of popular music history. ![]()
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