#lady day

[twixnmix]

Billie Holiday performing at the Mars Club in Paris on November 20, 1958.

Photos by Jean Pierre Leloir

[kinginthemask]

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[kecobe]

Billie Holiday, 1949 Carl Van Vechten (American; 1880­­­–1964) Kodachrome slide Photograph taken: March 23, 1949 Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut

[legendarytragedynacho]

Billie Holiday

[keemeekaal]

💛 QUIET EMOTIONAL IS NOT USELESS ;)

QEINU #008 ★ lady day | Lou Reed & @cavegirl66

● Rock N Roll Animal. 1974

@soon-b

[musickickztoo]

Billie Holiday † July 17, 1959

[victormalonso]

Ver "Billie HOLIDAY & Her All-Star Band " Fine And Mellow " (1957) !!!" en YouTube

[hezigler]

Billie Holiday at George Wein's Storyville (1953)

Live radio broadcast from October 1953.

[hillbillyoracle]

A Quiet Lady Day

I still haven't been feeling well so we kept our Lady Day/Spring celebration pretty quiet. My partner found a dairy free and gluten free cheesecake in our grocery store and picked it up on a whim.

What's more spring than a tornado watch? I'm not in the watch area so it's nice to have a chance to listen in and just practice looking at radar scans and compare how I do with the stream. Pairs nicely with our cheesecake.

Also pictured is our new flower calendar and my grandmother's pink perpetual calendar.

Happy Spring, y'all!

[bluejeansoul]

There Is No Greater Love - Billie Holiday

[twixnmix]

Billie Holiday and Tallulah Bankhead backstage at the Strand Theatre on Broadway in New York City, 1948.

The St. Louis Argus (August 27, 1948)

[greybitch]

At only eighteen, she recorded her first record as part of a studio group led by Benny Goodman. Her career quickly grew as she recorded songs with Teddy Wilson and began a long partnership with Lester Young, who gave her the nickname "Lady Day." In 1938, she was invited to headline an orchestra by Artie Shaw. Holiday became the first African American woman to work with an all-white band. One of her most famous songs, “Strange Fruit” was based on a horrific and detailed account of a lynching in the South. Many scholars now consider it one of the first protest songs of the Civil Rights Movement.

[uselessbard1031]

Happy 109th Birthday to Billie Holiday! One of my, if not my very favorite artist of all time!!! The emotion she brought to her music is jdsfmdpdsaplfkpSdnmskdmnapL

[legendarytragedynacho]

Billie Holiday

[hibiscusbabyboy]

Name Aesthetic:

Johnette

[starqueen87]

Remembering Billie Holiday (April 7, 1915 - July 17, 1959)