Essays on Billie Holiday

Billie Holiday’s Path to become a Legendary Jazz Singer Billie Holiday was one of the most famous jazz singers of the 20th century. Billie Holiday’s innovative phrasing about her life experiences in her music makes her one of the most influential jazz lyricists of the...

Billie Holiday (aka Lady Day) was and still is a very influential jazz artist and singer. Holiday’s iconic jazz songs and albums thrived in a time when America was going through a time of racial intolerance. This project began with Abel Meeropol’s (aka Lewis Allan)...

The song “Strange Fruit” by Billie Holiday is a jazz ballad which can also be attributed to the blues style. Before Billie Holiday released the song, it was a poem, written by the American teacher Abel Merropol. This poem was a response to the lynching’s...

The Great Depression caused it to be hard to get a job or become successful because they limited the amount of workers and the amount each person or business could have but one person proved it that it was possible to become successful. Billie Holiday...

The artist known as Billie Holiday, and later nicknamed Lady Day was born as Eleanora Fagan, in 1915. Billies childhood was a sad one. Her parents were never married and her father,Clarence Holiday who played guitar with Fletcher Henderson abandoned Billie and her mother early...

Throughout history music and other forms of expression such as literature and art, have been used to portray Ideas of the time. In United States history, we have seen music represent issues in politics, society, and culture. American history has had its darker times, and...