@Ricardo Valentino We all know the tragedy of the womans life. I'm celebrating the triumphs of her tenacity to survive at all. Have a good day and be safe😊
One of the greatest, certainly, but that was an unusually talented era. Who can single out any one singer as the greatest in such an unequaled talent pool?
They treated so many of our black stars so poorly. Draining them for everything they could, then discarding them with nothing to show for. She was beautiful, i see why my father loved her and her music.
She needed help and instead got jail! Needed love and got abused. Well! She got heaven and no one can take that from her! Bet God is enjoying her songs!
Now you can get a choice between jail and rehab if you live in a progressive state or city. Back then Billie was black and addicted and very talented. She was born to a single mom, and women were lower class. No money or family to help them, ment they were poor. Street walking poor. Billie and her mom had few choices besides prostitution, domestic work, or restaurant service. Billie was lucky that she could sing, but found herself in drugstore central. I love her voice. We are lucky she left behind records. Billie is one of our best jazz artists.🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌻🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹
Sexism and racism and poverty the triple crown of poverty. Billie started back too far. But she ran to the finish line several times, only to be knocked back by that heavy triple crown.
I will never ever complain about my life again. This woman was abused and victimized since she was a child. I wonder if she ever really felt love. How sad. Such a great woman beaten down so cruelly by this sinful world. RiP
@Ricardo Valentino Nonsense. The abuse she suffered at the hands of a couple of black men pales in comparison to the suffering she endured all her life under the heel of America's brutal racist society.
@Queen no it's people like you who should be ashamed. It's easy to point a finger at someone you don't even know. The world's full of individuals like yourself
Yep and i remember the city hall fight! Alot of people didnt want it up! I remember seeing it just by chance! It is beautiful! It looks better than MLK's in DC! Yeah, i said it!
@@nickie7874 Except she did something useful with her voice by speaking out against racism. Nothing silly about that. The statues you are probably referring to are of what kind of people? What did they stand for? Make sure you do your research and fact check before posting something silly itself.
It is sad how the greatest American singer of all time was consistently harrassed by the US government, the same government that has never recognized jazz as the only American artform.
Yeah we know who killed her the same pigs that handcuffed her to the gurney.. same thing back then is happening in 2021. Wake up people pay attention 😎💯
Can you believe we NEVER learned about Ms. Holiday in all of my years of school. The kicker is I live in Baltimore. Can you believe that, well I guess you can.
I assumed that the era she lived in came with some hardships but it really must have been a battle just to get through each day back then. She left us a beautiful legacy of how strong we must be.thank you Billie for gracing us with your beauty
Ms. Holiday, Billie, I love you. You didn't deserve what you got. My youngest daughter shares your birthday. Nothing can be said to repair the horrible indignities you endured. You were a rare flower in a stampede of a life.
She was one of the best in her time I heard her music at a very young age my mother and father played her music all the time and I have some of her music myself she will always be one of the best from her time
soul sessions tv Bdhrh Lena Horne was from a prominent, well-connected family. Butterfly McQueen was well-educated, and the home of her youth was uncharacteristically more peaceable with its Black residents, giving her a greater resilience. Billie Holiday was born illegitimate to a very young, rather stupid girl, who stayed stupid well into her adult life. So, there were some variables.
@soul sessions tv Bdhrh - Well Lena Horne was very, very light skinned and born into rare upper middle Class family. Her father once said "Why should Lena play a maid when I can get a maid FOR her." Billy was just regular light skinned and born poor. Butterfly McQueen never married and never had kids (sadly, limiting male control....no matter what race the man.....helped keep Black women stay safe and mentally well) and she was an atheist. I'm not, but black women of that generation were not really helped by that unwavering Faith in God. McQueen did what she needed to to be happy without worrying about God, rules, what a church would think, or giving up and thinking it's all God's will. *But McQueen didn't have a glorious life. She died painfully of 3rd degree burns and in the 1970s was abused by police! THE 70's. She OVERCAME. Im not sure that's the same as having a happy life.* But I get what you mean. McQueen was no tragedy.
@soul sessions tv Bdhrh - I'm reporting you. You are race trolling.....AND YOU'RE NOT BLACK....but you're using a fake photo and misleading ID. Why? What is wrong with you?
@soul sessions tv Bdhrh - OMG! You don't know what you're talking about! *Hattie McDaniel was married 5 times! All for only a few years! Her husbands were abusive and resentful of her.* *Hattie NEVER HAD KIDS and died at 59 years old. The cemetery she chose refused to allow a NEGRO to be buried there.* *Hattie worked all her life....BUT DIED I DEBT! Her Oscar was sold to pay creditors!* ((--"Despite evidence McDaniel had earned an excellent income as an actress, her final estate was less than $10,000. The IRS claimed the estate owed more than $11,000 in taxes. In the end, the probate court ordered all of her property siezed."))
I was a NYC yellow cab driver and I dropped off someone on central park west 100 st at a brown stone apt building and he told me Billie Holiday stayed there . NYC had places where alot of entertainers stayed .
I was glad I read her story for myself. And not allow the media to dictate what narrative of her image they want us to believe. Billie was strong and persevered through all B.S. she went through. To me she an Icon without a doubt.
Goes to show you that they knew and know music is powerful and delivers encouraging messages so they have always tried to this day to control the narrative. Listen to today's BS and when it's positive it doesn't get a spin
This is one Beautiful Black Queen who went through a lot in her life...I hate she died the way she did...but she will never be forgotten!!! Love you Queen!!
I wish I could have gotten the chance to sit down at a quite place and just talked to her. About anything she wanted to talk about. Wouldn't that be awesome? RIP Ms. Holliday. May you truly be at peace and rest in God's Kingdom.
BEAUTIFUL COMMENT,...... I wish the same thing too!,....an unforgettable woman, who lived an unforgettable life!.....Hope your soul is resting peaceably.
She made it through this life the best she could, and made her mark on our society with her music. I paid my respects to her, after work, at a Harlem NY funeral home. She looked beautiful, at peace, with that white gardenia in her hair‼️👏🎼🌹
I ❤Lady Day she was a True Legend her voice was unquie you could feel the pain in her voice she was a tortured soul may Bille Holiday rest in .peace...
Her life was totally different from the movie. She differentially had a really hard life for such a talent. No one can compare to her..So glad that we still have her music.
I fell in love with her music after seeing Lady Sings The Blues. I still love her music but am now very disappointed that the movie was so off about her actual life. I know there is “poetic license “ but Hollywood can twist truth until it becomes almost complete fiction. The movie was fantastic but I wish it were based more on her actual life. Thank goodness Billie Holiday’s voice can still bring such pleasure.
Lady Day. She certainly had a sad childhood which followed her to her adulthood. Her voice and style is something that will live on in the halls of Jazz World
“It’s been more than 50 years since Holidays death..” This hit me hard. This wasn’t so long ago. Racism is very much so still alive. Even in the offsprings of racists. It will take centuries to weed out such deep rooted hatred.
Her tormenters are relegated to obscurity and shame. Holliday's legacy has stood and will stand the test of time. Continue to rest in peace and power dear soul.
Wow! this woman was amazingly strong. She was brutalized all her life. No surprise that she became an addict. Look at the addicts today! They become addicts for hobby. - this beautiful woman was ravaged, so she checked out. I get it.
Actually addicts today become addicts for the same reasons she did.. Rape, childhood trauma etc You obviously know nothing about it Go watch Intervention on RU-vid It's very interesting and it will teach you a lot
True remember she was victimize at the age of 10 yrs by an old pervert who only got 10 yrs in prison when he should have gotten life for messing with a child
Lady blues, your tear stained ,pain soaked, songs touch to the very core the essence of a woman. Neither time nor tragedy can erase your legacy..Queen of the speakeasies, forever in our hearts...embedded in our souls.
What incredible strength and courage she showed to survive as long as she did. Billie is unique as a jazz singer who truly believed her lyrics and could phrase instinctively like the greatest musicians of her time.
Fagan is my maiden name. I never knew Billie Holiday was a Fagan. I was born not far from Baltimore and still live in Western Md. I wonder if we're related? I just love her voice.
Great writing. I had a CD of her greatest hits i listened to more than once but less than most; it's beautiful singing with lots of emotional pain. I was ware of some of it but i didn't know she had it this bad. In some way, i never really ventured to find out. Thanks for sharing thumbs up.
My favorite song of Ms. Holliday is "Traveling Light". You can hear the wishes of her heart when she sung that song. The wish of being treated with true kindness and love. The hope that one day..that she would have those things. When I hear her sing 'Traveling Light'...it brings me to tears because of those beautiful dreams she sung in that song...she was denied in her short, tragic life.
I am 55 year old white Canadian woman, who I don't know when I first discovered Billie Holiday but I think it was my father's love of jazz and blues he loved Ella Fitzgerald Sam Cooke Billie Holiday Edith Piaf he love country music so I just was one of the five kids loved his music and looked into things and I remember watching a movie I think about Billie Holiday called lady sings the blues, with Diana Ross? I may be wrong but listening to this right now, amazes me what a beautiful intelligence strong woman Billie Holiday must have been because I don't think many women could have done what she did back in those days, God bless her. I think maybe she's one of the angels in heaven now singing.
wow. what a sad story. i feel so bad for her. so much sorrow and misfortune. and even with all that, she was a star, a shining star with a magnificent talent. RIP Billie Holiday. love your music.
Billie Holliday, has been deceased 61 yrs. She died the year I came into the world. I hope that she is resting in peace & receiving all the riches in God's paradise, than she did down here. She definitely deserves that. It wasn't easy for her. Not at all!
The movie "Lady sings the blues" didn't in no way scratch the surface of her life except for the drug use maybe. She was an amazing and beautiful woman. Her life was tragic and way too short.😥😥😥
Wow Grunge, never knew some of these facts! And isn't ironic that a lot of rich people like to try to symbolize and equate their wealth with her music..
