Until now few artists still have the capability to perform a jazz song goes deep into people like Billie Holiday."Holiday was only 17 years old, too fat, very beautiful, but completely anonymous. Young, but she sang soulful, full of experience "- that is the feeling of the record producer John Hammond when he first met Holiday.Talented but silver partsHammond received a very clear voice of Holiday at a club in New York in 1933. Later, he was invited jazz star Benny Goodman Holiday sing and listen to persuade the singer to record vocals for the Holiday CBS program.Word of Hammond was persuaded to accept and Holiday Goodman had first recordings Riffin 'The Scotch. Right after that, Your Mother's Son-In-Law. What is remarkable is that Holiday is not only detect Hammond. He also supported artists such as Bob Dylan, Pete Seeger and Bruce Springsteen.Billie Holiday: The 'native' grief of jazzBillie Holiday.Holiday real name was Eleanora Fagan. She was born on 07/04/1915 in Philadelphia. Her birth parents while still in adolescence and not married. Holiday grew up in the scene being looked at Toad's parents in Baltimore.Her father, Clarence Holiday, then this is a successful jazz musician, rarely saw her daughter. Her mother, Sadie Fagan, hardly knowing what to you. Lack of adult shape, Holiday formed undisciplined lifestyle and often drop out of school. Because truancy, she was sent to an orphanage and forced here when 10 years old.Growing up, Holiday moved to Harlem, New York, earning a living by prostitution. In my free time, she heard the music of Bessie Smith singer and trumpeter Louis Armstrong artists - who later made a large impact on women in terms of art.Have to say, the life of all the bitter taste Holiday, tragedy and success. After being discovered, she has performed at Carnegie chamber, at the Metropolitan Opera, performing European tour. But she had to go through two failed marriages and to receive two prison sentences for crimes related to drugs.Holiday each performed with the most famous jazz musician of his era, but the admiration of millions of fans did not help her become wealthy. The sad thing is when Holiday died at age 44 due to liver cirrhosis, people were arguing about who is now in the care of her post.
Billie Holiday and her idol, Louis Armstrong, in the film New Orleans (1947).A voice was the normHoliday is the short par, but there is a surprisingly successful career. She has released hundreds of recordings and performed numerous performances.Her career began to be recognized and taken off from 1935. "From a musical perspective, Holiday ahead of its time. However, the spirit of freedom which she expressed in the song has become a barrier, do not take her to be with the music publisher in the US forces at the time. The music critics in Europe, not the US critics, is the first new appreciation for her " - Hammond said.Always with bitter tears in the success of Holiday. Like millions of other black people, she suffered racial discrimination. But not so that she quit. She even became the singer performed the first black with a white band, when played with Artie Shaw. She determined performances, despite only going backstage entrance and not eating with other artists.Then, Holiday consecutive success. She also encroaching into the film, plays a maid in New Orleans film, to be starred alongside idol Louis Armstrong.1939, Holiday began referring directly to the issue of racism in Strange Fruit. Abel Meeropol's poems, this song is a crime to denounce the racist who has regularly held executed many blacks in the South American states.Columbia Records refused to record the song, saying it was too risky. But Commodore Records took over the music and it became the most popular song of the Holiday, took her to become a social phenomenon. Strange Fruit became a symbol of the human rights movement of African Americans and it was voted by Time magazine as "Songs of the Century".Currently, the song composed by Holiday Lover Man as, Do not Explain or Long Gone Blues still popular as when she was alive. Apart from them, still resonates Holiday sing the classic songs such as You Go To My Head by George Gershwin and I Can not Get Started.Singing the words clearly and exquisite phrasing has become the brand's Holiday. Even in later years, when Holiday's voice becomes more rough, it has not lost its appeal. Holiday's singing has become the template for countless other artists to follow.In 1973, the jazz critic Ralph Gleason American girls and wrote: "Holiday is the greatest jazz singers of all time. If you are a woman, want to sing jazz, select the song Holiday ". Tip of Gleason was still a lot of people to listen to.
