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The United States vs. Billie Holiday received mixed reviews from critics; while Day's performance was praised, the direction and screenplay were criticized as unfocused. For her performance, Day was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress and won the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Drama .
Billie Holiday (born Eleanora Fagan; April 7, 1915 – July 17, 1959) was an American jazz and swing music singer. Nicknamed " Lady Day " by her friend and music partner, Lester Young , Holiday made a significant contribution to jazz music and pop singing.
Renee Spearman (born March 3, 1969, in Lynwood, CA) is an American gospel, Christian, recording artist, singer, songwriter and producer. Her solo music career began in 2012 and has since released one album which charted at number 4 on the Billboard Gospel Album Chart, number 37 on the Billboard Independent Albums Chart and Billboard Top 200.
Billie Holiday didn’t particularly enjoy singing “Strange Fruit,” a chilling anti-lynching anthem that compared Black bodies to fruit hanging from a tree, but she knew it was too important ...
The author of a new biography on coming to understand the truth behind the legendary singer's public persona.
Capturing the right musical ambiance for Billie Holiday in “The United States vs. Billie Holiday” was the product of a year-and-a-half of research and planning, even before shooting began in ...
Marilyn Stasio in Variety called the play's script "unrealistically stuffed with just about every known biographical detail about [Holiday's] unhappy life", but praised McDonald's performance, saying she captures the plaintive sound, the eccentric phrasing and all the little vocal catches that identify Billie Holiday's unique style.
The first time I saw myself on-screen was in 1972. The film was “Lady Sings the Blues,” a cinematic masterpiece about jazz icon Billie Holiday. At 13 years old, I could not believe I was ...