Essays on Billie Holiday

Billie Holidays “Strange Fruit” is a very popular protest song from the 1930s and is still talked about in todays age. It was recorded in 1939 and was originally a poem written by Abel Meeropol in 1937. This essay will evaluate the background of the...

Eleanora Fagan, also commonly known as Billie Holiday and Lady Day, was an African American jazz singer. Born April 7, 1915, she was a major singer and influencer in the jazz community 1933 to 1959 when she met an unfortunate early death. Holiday grew to...

Billie Holiday was a notable artist in the jazz scene. She was a lady who carried on with her life how she would have preferred to, and did not take anybody’s feeling on the most proficient method to live it. She profited from her work,...

“Strange fruit” as sung by Billie Holiday, is a protest song about the lynching of black people and uncovers the brutality of racism and violence in South America. The song was first written as a poem by Abel Meerpol and was published in 1937. He...