Billie Holiday
- Type: Jazz Vocalist
- Country: United States
- Born: April 7, 1915 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
- Died: July 17, 1959 in New York, New York, United States
- Active: 1915 - 1959
Biography
Billie Holiday was a seminal American jazz and swing singer whose emotive phrasing and improvisational skill transformed the art of popular singing. Nicknamed "Lady Day" by her friend and musical partner *Lester Young*, her vocal style was deeply influenced by the jazz instrumentalists she worked with, pioneering new ways of manipulating tempo and melody. First discovered by producer John Hammond, she rose to prominence in the 1930s and '40s with recordings for labels like #Brunswick# and #Columbia#. Despite a turbulent life, her profound interpretations of standards and soul-baring originals like 'God Bless the Child' and the protest song 'Strange Fruit' cemented her legacy as one of music's most influential vocalists.
Genres
Billie Holiday Discography
- A Fine Romance / I Can't Pretend (1936) - Single - rated 3.45/5
- Summertime / Billie's Blues (1936) - Single - rated 4.22/5
- They Can't Take That Away From Me / Let's Call the Whole Thing Off (1937) - Single - rated 3.98/5
- The Very Thought of You / I Can't Get Started (1938) - Single - rated 3.89/5
- You Go to My Head / The Moon Looks Down and Laughs (1938) - Single - rated 4.08/5
- Them There Eyes / Some Other Spring (1939) - Single - rated 3.75/5
- I Gotta Right to Sing the Blues / Yesterdays (1939) - Single - rated 4.07/5
- Strange Fruit / Fine and Mellow (1939) - Single - rated 4.64/5
- Night and Day / The Man I Love (1940) - Single - rated 4.06/5
- Gloomy Sunday (The Famous Hungarian Suicide Song) / I'm in a Low Down Groove (1941) - Single - rated 4.19/5
- God Bless the Child / Solitude (1941) - Single - rated 4.07/5
- All of Me / Romance in the Dark (1941) - Single - rated 3.94/5
- I'll Be Seeing You / I'll Get By (1944) - Single - rated 4.11/5
- I Cover the Waterfront / Lover, Come Back to Me (1945) - Single - rated 3.69/5
- Lover Man (Oh, Where Can You Be?) / That Ole Devil Called Love (1945) - Single - rated 3.63/5
- Good Morning Heartache / No Good Man (1946) - Single - rated 4/5
- Easy Living / Deep Song (1947) - Single - rated 3.76/5
- Billie Holiday (1947) - Compilation - rated 4.24/5
- Billie Holiday, Vol. 2 (1950) - Compilation - rated 3.62/5
- Lover Man (1951) - Compilation - rated 3.9/5
- Billie Holiday Sings (1952) - Album - rated 4.2/5
- An Evening With Billie Holiday (1953) - Album - rated 3.55/5
- At Jazz at the Philharmonic (1954) - Album - rated 3.89/5
- Lady Day (1955) - Compilation - rated 4.31/5
- Music for Torching With Billie Holiday (1955) - Album - rated 3.81/5
- Lady Sings the Blues (1956) - Album - rated 4.58/5
- Recital by Billie Holiday (1956) - Compilation - rated 4.25/5
- Solitude (1956) - Compilation - rated 4.13/5
- The Lady Sings (1956) - Compilation - rated 4.21/5
- Velvet Mood: Songs by Billie Holiday (1956) - Album - rated 3.87/5
- Body and Soul (1957) - Album - rated 4.11/5
- Lady in Satin (1958) - Album - rated 4.22/5
- Songs for Distingu茅 Lovers (1958) - Album - rated 4.01/5
- All or Nothing at All (1959) - Album - rated 4.28/5
- Stay With Me (1959) - Album - rated 3.91/5
- The Billie Holiday Story (1959) - Compilation - rated 4.37/5
- Ladylove [Billie's Blues] (1962) - Album - rated 3.87/5
- Lady Day & Pres: 1937-1941 (1998) - Compilation
- Ken Burns Jazz: The Definitive Billie Holiday (2000) - Compilation - rated 4.36/5
- The Commodore Master Takes (2000) - Compilation - rated 4.07/5
- Lady Day: The Best of Billie Holiday (2001) - Compilation - rated 4.08/5
- Lady Day: The Complete Billie Holiday on Columbia (1933-1944) (2001) - Compilation - rated 4.54/5
- The Essential Billie Holiday (2002) - Compilation - rated 4.33/5
- 20th Century Masters - The Millennium Collection: The Best of Billie Holiday (2002) - Compilation - rated 4.09/5