Billie Holiday
- Recitazione
- 7 aprile 1915 · Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
- 17 luglio 1959
Biografia
Billie Holiday, born Eleanora Fagan, was an American jazz singer with a career spanning nearly thirty years. Nicknamed "Lady Day" by her friend and music partner Lester Young, Holiday had a seminal influence on jazz music and pop singing. Her vocal style, strongly inspired by jazz instrumentalists, pioneered a new way of manipulating phrasing and tempo. She was known for her vocal delivery and improvisational skills. Billie Holiday appeared in four feature films and many television shows.
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Filmografia
- Tonta que soy · Musica
- This Is Pop · In persona
- Sweet Thing · Musica
- Billie - La vera storia di Billie Holiday · In persona
- Strange Fruit · Sceneggiatura
- The Apollo · In persona
- Billie Holiday: A Sensation · In persona
- Queens of Jazz: The Joy and Pain of the Jazz Divas · In persona
- Billie Holiday: Strange Fruit · In persona
- Jazz Voice - The Ladies sing Jazz Vol.1
- Billie Holiday: The Ultimate Collection · In persona
- Sarah Vaughan & Other Jazz Divas
- Strange Fruit · In persona
- It's Black Entertainment · In persona
- Billie on Billie · In persona
- Jazz · In persona
- Benny Carter: Symphony in Riffs · In persona
- Lady Day: The Many Faces of Billie Holiday
- Artie Shaw: Time Is All You've Got · In persona
- The Long Night of Lady Day
- Brother, Can You Spare a Dime? · In persona
- La signora del blues · Romanzo
- Dagbogsfilm I-V · Musica
- 'Sugar Chile' Robinson, Billie Holiday, Count Basie and His Sextet
- La città del jazz · Endie
- Symphony in Black: A Rhapsody of Negro Life · In persona
- Emperor Jones · Extra in Nightclub Scene