...Billie Holiday - "Queen of Song" or "Lady Day".

Billie Holiday   - "Strange Fruit" one of the first anti rascist songs ever - 
(was released  in 1939).

"Strange Fruit" began as a poem written by Abel Meeropol, a Jewish high-school teacher from the Bronx, about the lynching of two black men.

Holiday was recording for Columbia in the late 1930s when she was introduced to "Strange Fruit", a song based on a poem

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Another interesting facts about "Strange Fruit" are on : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strange_Fruit

Billie Holiday (born Eleanora Fagan Gough; April 7, 1915 – July 17, 1959) was an American jazz singer and songwriter.Nicknamed Lady Day by her sometime collaborator Lester Young,

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billie_Holiday

Her professional pseudonym was taken from ( (.........) )

"Lover Man"

Little bit about "Lover Man" :

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Billie Holiday photographed by Carl Van Vechten 
       
 

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