Billie Holiday

To music publishers, she was a dream come true. She could invest an indifferent song with such integrity that other artists would cover it for years to come. Billie Holiday, revered as one of the finest ever female exponents of popular song, an innovative stylist with impeccable timing and diction. In hierarchical terms alone, she is second only to the great Bessie Smith.

More than four decades after her death, Billie Holiday remains one of the most gifted artists of our time-and also one of the most elusive. Because of who she was and how she chose to live her life, Lady Day has been the subject of both intense adoration and wildly distorted legends. Now at last, Farah Jasmine Griffin, a writer of intellectual authority and superb literary gifts, liberates Billie Holiday from the mythology that has obscured both her life and her art. An intimate meditation on Holiday's place in American culture and history," If You Can't Be Free, Be A Mystery reveals Lady Day in all her complexity, humor and pain-a true jazz virtuoso whose passion and originality made every song she sang hers forever. Celebrated by poets, revered by recording artists from Frank Sinatra to Macy Gray, Billie Holiday is more popular and influential today than ever before. Now, thanks to this marvelous book, Holiday's many fans can finally understand the singer and the woman they love.

Billie Holiday - Billie Holiday (April 7, 1915 – July 17, 1959), also called Lady Day is generally considered one of the greatest jazz singers of all time, alongside Sarah Vaughan and Ella Fitzgerald.

Billie Holiday (broadcaster) - Billie Holiday (born in Ottawa, Ontario) is the professional name of Amanda Dunn, a Canadian radio and television personality.

Mad Dog and Billie - Canadian broadcasters Jay "Mad Dog" Michaels and Billie Holiday hosted a succession of prominent morning drive time shows in the Toronto, Ontario radio market as Mad Dog and Billie, later Jay and Billie.

Monterey Jazz Festival - ... a yearly festival of jazz music that takes place at the Monterey Fairgrounds in Monterey, California the third full weekend in September. Founded by Jimmy Lyons in 1958, that year's festival included performers such as Dizzy Gillespie, Louis Armstrong, and Billie Holiday.

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