Art, does "herself" know Billie Holiday music?

That song is very much associated with that tragic singer.

BTW: I may have "misspoke" in my last post for although Billie Holiday was portrayed in the movie "Lady Sings The Blues", she is primarily known as a jazz singer.

For more information on Billie Holiday {also known as Lady Day], click HERE

Here's an excerpt from that website:
"Billie Holiday's grandfather was one of 17 children of a black Virginia slave and a white Irish plantation owner. Her mother was only 13 when she was born.

The future "Lady Day" first heard the music of Louis Armstrong and Bessie Smith on a Victrola at Alice Dean's, the Baltimore "house of ill repute" where she ran errands and scrubbed floors as a young girl. She made her singing debut in obscure Harlem nightclubs (borrowing her professional name from screen star Billie Dove), then toured with Count Basie and Artie Shaw before going solo. Benny Goodman dragged the frightened singer to her first studio session. Between 1933 and 1944, she recorded over 200 "sides," but she never received royalties for any of them.

Despite a lack of technical training, Holiday's unique diction, inimitable phrasing and acute dramatic intensity made her the outstanding jazz singer of her day. White gardenias, worn in her hair, became her trademark.


In 1939, she introduced [the songs] "Strange Fruit" & "God Bless the Child." ...

Portrayed in the movie "Lady Sings the Blues."

In 1946, she gave a triumphant concert at Town Hall and appeared in the film "New Orleans."

Died on July 17,1959."