Edgardo Del Rosario MUS 114 Richard Armandi 21 February 2016 Billie Holiday The career of jazz singer, Billie Holiday, was full of intense, life-changing moments. Billie was born on April 7, 1915 in Philadelphia. One of the first major events in her early life was being raped at the age of 11. Billie was always an outspoken person, who often swore. At the age of 14, she joined a brothel. She claimed she was 24, but her lie was soon exposed and was punished. These types of experiences molded
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the scene because Jimmy Markum received the confession he wanted and ruined Dave. 5. The fifth scene I choose is Dave and the Savage brothers in the bar drinking before Jimmy arrives. The song I choose for this scene is “Strange Fruit” by Billie Holiday as source music from the jukebox. I choose this song because I feel that it leads up into Jimmy Markum arriving. 6. The sixth scene I choose is the cops entering the room while Ray Jr.’s Friend has a gun drawn on Brendan Harris. The song
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America. By reading and studying, I start to know this song is a typical representation of Anti-lynching movement. The original title of this song was "Bitter Fruit," and the song started as a poem wrote by Abel Meeropl. The singer of this song is Billie Holiday. [1] In the David Margolick’s book, has said: "Strange Fruit" marked a watershed, praised by some, lamented by others, in Holiday's evolution from exuberant jazz singer to chanteuse of lovelorn pain and loneliness. Once she began to sing it, some
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Billie was born on the 7th April, in Philadelphia, Penn and died July 17, in New York and is buried at saint Raymond’s cemetery in Bronx County, NY. Billie holiday was a unique singer and had the ability to boldly turn any material that she confronted into her own music, this is what made her a superstar of her time. Billie holidays real name is Eleanora Fagan After Billie holiday died her song, Lady Sings the Blues, which was written in 1956. won five Grammy Awards When Billie was a child she
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Billie Holiday and Ella Fitzgerald were friends and influential singers of the Swing Era. Each singer possessed a unique musical style that continues to be emulated by today’s jazz singers. Listen to Billie Holiday’s Back in Your Own Back Yard and Ella Fitzgerald’s Flying Home. [Back In Your Own Back Yard (Gridley, Chapter 5, Page 83: Jazz Classics for Concise Guide to Jazz CD 1 track 11; Flying Home: Chapter 5, Page 86: Jazz Classics for Concise Guide to Jazz CD 1 track 12]. Respond to each prompt
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Billie Holiday was one of America’s influential singers of time. When Billie Holiday was 9 years old she was sent to the House of the Good Shepherd a facility for troubled African-American girls.Billie Holiday met a man named Lester Young and Artie Shaw they were both part of a orchestra called the Count Basie’s Orchestra.She was a part of the Count Basie Orchestra for quite some time after a few years working with them she was forced to quit.In October 1945 Billie started taking drugs after the
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Billie Holiday was born on April 7th, 1915. She claims that she was born in Baltimore, but a biographer named Donald Clarke noted that her birth records stated she was born at the Philadelphia General Hospital. She was the daughter of Clarence Holiday and Sadie Fagan. Her father abandoned her family when she was very young and refused to acknowledge the existence of Billie until after her first musical success. In her teenage years, Billie was known for dancing and singing along to some of the most
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Billie Holiday Lindsey Sigel Considered to be one of the most influential jazz vocalists of all time, Billie Holiday had a tremendous life that was both commendable and filled with many hardships. Her singing expressed an incredible depth of emotion that spoke of hard times and injustice as well as triumph. Though her career was relatively short and often erratic, she left behind a body of work as great as any vocalist before or since. Billie Holiday was born Eleanora Fagan
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expression is Billie Holiday. Holiday happens to be my best choice of a recognizable jazz artist. I chose Holiday because she could take the composition of a song given to her and turn it into well-known music standards. Holiday showed that she could be great at anything. She is inspiration for me to be great at anything I am involved in. The purpose of this paper is to give insight on Billie Holiday, songs she sung that established jazz standards, and the impact she made as a performer. Holiday experienced
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putting their brains to work doing schoolwork or math problems for example. Students will also get homework that keeps the students busy. If we did not have a summer break I think we should have at least holiday breaks. For example, we should have Easter, Christmas breaks, or important holidays. We should not have a summer break because we can learn more. We would have a little bit of electronics which means we are kept busy. This is why I think we should not have a summer break.
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