Becoming Billie Holiday - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Becoming Billie Holiday write by Carole Boston Weatherford. This book was released on 2008-10-01. Becoming Billie Holiday available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Coretta Scott King Author Honor Award The stunning voice and hard life of legendary jazz singer Billie Holiday is revealed through evocative, accessible poetry. In 1915, Sadie Fagan gave birth to a daughter she named Eleanora. The world, however, would know her as Billie Holiday, possibly the greatest jazz singer of all time. Eleanora's journey to become a legend took her through pain, poverty, and run-ins with the law. By the time she was fifteen, she knew she possessed something that could possibly change her life--a voice. Eleanora could sing. Her remarkable voice led her to a place in the spotlight with some of the era's hottest big bands. 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.
Becoming Billie Holiday
Becoming Billie Holiday - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Becoming Billie Holiday write by Carole Boston Weatherford. This book was released on 2022-01-11. Becoming Billie Holiday available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Coretta Scott King Author Honor Award The stunning voice and hard life of legendary jazz singer Billie Holiday is revealed through evocative, accessible poetry. In 1915, Sadie Fagan gave birth to a daughter she named Eleanora. The world, however, would know her as Billie Holiday, possibly the greatest jazz singer of all time. Eleanora's journey to become a legend took her through pain, poverty, and run-ins with the law. By the time she was fifteen, she knew she possessed something that could possibly change her life--a voice. Eleanora could sing. Her remarkable voice led her to a place in the spotlight with some of the era's hottest big bands. 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.
Mister and Lady Day
Mister and Lady Day - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Mister and Lady Day write by Amy Novesky. This book was released on 2017-02-07. Mister and Lady Day available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Billie Holiday—also known as Lady Day—had fame, style, a stellar voice, big gardenias in her hair, and lots of dogs. She had a coat-pocket poodle, a beagle, Chihuahuas, a Great Dane, and more, but her favorite was a boxer named Mister. Mister was always there to bolster her courage through good times and bad, even before her legendary appearance at New York’s Carnegie Hall. Newton’s stylish illustrations keep the simply told story focused on the loving bond between Billie Holiday and her treasured boxer. An author’s note deals more directly with the singer’s troubled life, and includes a little-known photo of Mister and Lady Day!
Strange Fruit
Strange Fruit - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Strange Fruit write by Gary Golio. This book was released on 2017. Strange Fruit available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Tells the story of how Billie Holiday and songwriter Abel Meeropol combined their talents to create "Strange Fruit," the iconic protest song that brought attention to lynching and racism in America.
Billie Holiday: The Last Interview
Billie Holiday: The Last Interview - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Billie Holiday: The Last Interview write by Billie Holiday. This book was released on 2019-07-30. Billie Holiday: The Last Interview available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The first-ever collection of interviews with the tortured but groundbreaking singer Billie Holiday, part of Melville House’s beloved Last Interview series Legendary singer Billie Holiday comes alive in this first-ever collection of interviews from throughout her career. Included is her last interview, given from her deathbed in a New York City hospital, where police were standing by ready to arrest her for a parole violation should she recover. Also included: The transcript of an interrogation by a US Customs official questioning about whether she'd violated her parole by using drugs on a foreign tour. But the book is more than a look at just the famously tragic side of her life. In other conversations, drawn from music magazines, late-night radio programs, and newspapers across the US and Canada, she discusses her childhood, musicians who influenced her, her friendship -- and falling out -- with the influential sax player Lester Young, why she chose the gardenia as her symbol, why she quit Count Basie's band, her substance abuse problems, writing songs and whether she wrote her own memoir, and more. In frank and open conversations, Billie Holiday proves herself far more articulate, aware, intelligent, and even heroic than the way she's often portrayed. This collection is an essential volume for all who have been moved by her music.
