Billie Holiday
USA
Born: 07 April 1915
Died: 17 July 1959
Styles: Torch Songs, Traditional Pop, Vocal/Standards, Swing, Big Band/Swing, Vocal Jazz, Classic Female Blues, Country Blues, Piano Blues, Pre-War Blues, Pre-War Country Blues, Standards, Hard Bop
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The first popular jazz singer to move audiences with the intense, personal feeling of classic blues, Billie Holiday changed the art of American pop vocals forever. More than a half-century after her death, it's difficult to believe that prior to her emergence, jazz and pop singers were tied to the Tin Pan Alley tradition and rarely personalized their songs; only blues singers like Bessie Smith and Ma Rainey actually gave the impression they had lived through what they were singing. Billie Holiday's highly stylized reading of this blues traditio...
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