Autobiografie van de Amerikaanse jazz-zangeres (1915-1959).
Billie Holiday. ațipesc puțin, mă trezea un polițist mare și bătrân, care mă punea să mai semnez ceva, să mă îmbrac, să mă duc în alt birou. Nici măcar să merg nu mai puteam atunci când a venit vremea să mă duc la tribunal, ...
Lady Sings the Blues
Billie Holiday describes her early childhood in an East Baltimore ghetto, her career as an internationally-acclaimed jazz vocalist, and her years spent battling a drug habit.
But now, Billie Holiday stays close to the music, to her performance style, and to the self she created and put into print, on record and on stage.
Religion Around Billie Holiday illuminates the power and durability of religion in the making of an American musical icon.
From Julia Blackburn, an author whose ability to conjure lives from other times and places is so vivid that one suspects she sees ghosts, here is a portrait of a woman whose voice continues to haunt anyone who hears it.
Lady sings the blues
Now, thanks to this marvelous book, Holiday’s many fans can finally understand the singer and the woman they love.
The time is 1959.
Through a sequence of raw and poignant poems, New York Times best-selling and award-winning poet Carole Boston Weatherford chronicles the singer's young life, her fight for survival, and the dream she pursued with passion.