In a poignant, dramatic memoir, Billie Holiday tells not only of her rise to fame as a blues singer, but also of the exploitation and racial prejudice she encountered as well as of her struggle with heroin addiction.
Later , when I was a big star at Café Society Downtown , the panicky Ed Fox , manager of the Grand Terrace , came down with Joe Glaser . When he saw what happened there , he began to climb all over Glaser , trying to get me for the ...
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.
Lady sings the blues: Autobiografie
But Billie Holiday is no victim. Her memoir tells the story of her life spent in jazz, smoky Harlem clubs and packed-out concert halls, her love affairs, her wildly creative friends, her struggles with addiction and her adventures in love.
Autobiografie van de Amerikaanse jazz-zangeres (1915-1959).
All of this is told in Holiday's tart, streetwise style and hip patois that makes it read as if it were written yesterday.
Mito do jazz entre as décadas de 1930 e 1950, Billie Holiday foi criadora de um modo peculiar de viver e de cantar que marcou a carreira de uma série de cantoras norte-americanas, como Sarah Vaughan e Ella Fitzgerald.
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, ...
Autobiografie van de Amerikaanse jazz-zangeres (1915-1959).
Lady sings the blues
Lady sings the blues: Autobiographie
Lady Sings the Blues
Le récit autobiographique de l'une des plus grandes chanteuses de jazz noir américain des années 40 et 50, une écorchée de l'existence marquée par la violence, la misère, la prostitution, la drogue et le racisme mais aussi par un ...
Lady Sings the Blues
Lady sings the blues