Billie Holiday is one the most well-known jazz vocalists in history. “Lady Day” was born Eleanora Fagan in ... This post 7 Pioneering Black Female Jazz And Blues Singers Who Made Music History ...

LADY DAY SINGING A MELANCHOLY MIX OF BLUES AND BALLADS, ... Although she’s not well known beyond a loyal corps of fans, ... Alice Day is one of the best jazz singers in America.

Jazz singer Sharon Martin channels Billie Holiday in 'Lady Day' at JuJu Bag Cafe ... who is better known as a singer than an actress, ... “Lady Sings the Blues” — the book, ...

From 'Lady Day: The Best of Billie Holiday' By Billie Holiday. In Holiday's colorful autobiography, Lady Sings the Blues, she mentions that she wrote this song after having a fight with her mother ...

Although she became known to her fans as Billie Holiday or Lady Day, the “Strange Fruit” singer’s legal name is Eleanora Fagan. However, her birth certificate reportedly reads “Elinore ...

The irony is glaring, and if you don’t mind it, you’ll get a kick out of this show. The central concept of this new play with music recalls that of “Lady Day,” the Dee Dee Bridgewater bio ...

Lady Antebellum changed their name to "Lady A," unaware that there was a 61-year-old black singer with multiple albums with the same name. × Skip to main content ...