Billie Holiday

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Women’s History Month: March 2, 2019

Billie Holiday was a jazz and swing singer with a career lasting around 30 years. Her music was met with mixed reactions due to the honesty of the lyrics. Strange Fruit, for example focused on the unjust lynchings of African Americans in the south. Billie won four Grammy Awards, all posthumously.

Jacob Greenwood