Sixty-five years ago, on July 17, 1959, Billie Holiday died at Metropolitan Hospital in New York. The 44-year-old singer arrived after being turned away from a nearby charity hospital on evidence of ...

Billie Holiday has one of the most distinctive voices of all time; her very personal style continues to inspire singers decades after her death in 1959. Holiday herself was inspired by great musicians ...

Years after Billie Eilish was showered with Grammy Awards, one of her songs that contributed heavily to the load is making ...

NPR's Sacha Pfeiffer speaks with singer-songwriter M. Ward about his new album of Billie Holiday covers, "Think of Spring." He uses an acoustic... M. Ward's New Album Offers His Take On Billie Holiday ...

In 1959, during what would be the final months of her life, Billie Holiday was unwell. The singer—who had honed her art in the brothels of Baltimore, fronted orchestras led by Count Basie and Artie ...

Miley Cyrus and Mark Ronson covered John Lennon and Yoko Ono’s “Happy Xmas” in 2018 and were joined by Ono and Lennon’s son, ...

“O Holy Night” has always loomed large in my own personal Yuletide lexicon. Based on Placide Cappeau’s 1843 French-language poem Minuit, chrétiens, the song took the top spot among Classic FM ...

(The Conversation) — Sixty-five years ago, on July 17, 1959, Billie Holiday died at Metropolitan Hospital in New York. The 44-year-old singer arrived after being turned away from a nearby charity ...

News 12’s Gwen Edwards is joined by music composer Dunn Pearson to discuss the release of his new music video that reimagines the Billie Holiday song, "Strange Fruit." News 12 Staff • Mar 27, 2021, ...

On July 17, 1959, the famed singer behind a controversial jazz standard once condemned as a “declaration of war” died—an ironically tragic end to an internal war the singer endured in the final years ...