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comments To full comprehend the hard road Billie Holiday traveled in her final years, see if you can get your hands on "Lady in Autumn: The Best of The Verve Years." More than merely a compilation, these songs gleaned from sets recorded between 1946 and 1959, the year she died at age 44, create an unsparing biography of decline told through Holiday's voice. You can hear the ways that substance abuse and despair ravaged her voice, and you can also sense the spirit beneath it remained unbowed through those final sessions. Whether Andra Day listened to this collection to inform her perform...

In this new biopic, the director Lee Daniels has followed the example of Lady Sings the Blues by casting an established music star as Holiday.  

YOUTUBE The film reveals a little-seen side of Holiday as a figure whose insistence on performing the anti-lynching song “Strange Fruit” amid political pressures made her a pioneer of the civil rights movement.  For director Lee Daniels and the cast of his new film, The United States vs Billie Holiday, Billie Holiday was a public figure with whom they felt a personal connection, like "one of my aunties," Daniels said of the jazz singer. But the film, which will premiere on Hulu Feb. 26, reveals a little-seen side of Holiday as a figure whose insistence on performing the anti-lynching s...

Let’s take a look at who all will be playing the iconic roles in the film: Andra Day as Billie Holiday In this screengrab, Andra Day performs during the Virtual Parade Across America on January 20, 2021. Following the presidential inauguration of Joe Biden, the Virtual Parade Across America features celebrities and performances from across the country. (Getty Images) The 36-year-old American singer, songwriter, and actor has multiple Grammy nominations. Her debut album, ‘Cheers to the Fall’, peaked at number 48 on the US Billboard 200 chart. The album was nominated for Best R&B...