Today, Holiday is revered as one of the most influential musical artists of all time. Time magazine named her 1939 recording of “Strange Fruit” the song of the 20th century.

Today, Holiday is revered as one of the most influential musical artists of all time. Time magazine named her 1939 recording of "Strange Fruit" the song of the 20th century.

Today, Holiday is revered as one of the most influential musical artists of all time. Time magazine named her 1939 recording of “Strange Fruit” the song of the 20th century.

Holiday performed “Strange Fruit” for the first time in 193, and her fans frequently requested her to sing it over the years. It wasn’t only Black Americans wanting to hear it.

It’s the opening lyrics to Billie Holiday’s generation-defying song, Strange Fruit. The melody bare, with trumpets blaring, as heard in our report and played live by musician and retiring ...

Jazz singer Billie Holiday’s song “ Strange Fruit ” paints a vivid scene of the lynchings that happened across the American South in the early 20th century. The lyrics compare the hanged bodies of ...

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Billie Holiday’s recording of the anti-lynching song “Strange Fruit” has stirred and haunted generations of listeners. A new article from the Journal of African American History, titled ...

Andra Day is nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress in "The United States vs. Billie Holiday." ABC7's Hosea Sanders talked to her about a role she was destined to play.