For her self-titled 1954 album, see, The date and attribution for this article is unclear; tho' a phrase from it has been published on two earlier dates, 2008 and 2002: "Holiday's unique diction, inimitable phrasing and acute dramatic intensity made her the outstanding jazz singer of her day. The Swedish impresario Nils Hellstrom initiated the "Jazz Club U.S.A." (after the Leonard Feather radio show) tour starting in Stockholm in January 1954 and then Germany, Netherlands, Paris and Switzerland. Jazz for Valentine's Day. Jennifer Holliday Biography From her early days as a girl singing solos with the choir at Pleasant Grove Baptist Church in Houston,TX to her years on the Broadway stage and beyond, the inimitable . Holiday is the primary character in the play Lady Day at Emerson's Bar and Grill, with music by Lanie Robertson. Holiday's public stature grew in the following years. Lady Day is unquestionably the most important influence on American popular singing in the last twenty years.[112]. Golden Globe-winner Andra Day has revealed that she lost 40 pounds to play jazz legend Billie Holiday - but it didn't make her feel any prettier.. The two argued, and Holiday shouted angrily, "God bless the child that's got his own", and stormed out. She would soon be much thinner, while he would again be heavy and remain so for most of the rest of his last years. However, after "What a Little Moonlight Can Do" was successful, the company began considering Holiday an artist in her own right. [1] She is best known for her debut single, the Dreamgirls number and rhythm-and-blues/pop hit, "And I Am Telling You I'm Not Going", for which she won a Grammy in 1983. But nothing happened. Titled Holiday on Broadway, it sold out. She gave herself the name Billie after a silent movie star Holiday was born Eleanora Fagan, though some sources say the name on her birth certificate was "Elinore Harris." Her parents, Sadie. Tony Bennett . Still, Holliday was devastated when, in 1994, that marriage, too, ended, just four months after her mother died of cancer. These songs were released under the band name "Billie Holiday & Her Orchestra". [95] By May 1959, she had lost 20 pounds (9.1kg). Her rehearsal had been desultory; her voice sounded tinny and trailed off; her body sagged tiredly. Her record label, Vocalion, listed the single as its fourth-best seller for the same month, and it peaked at number 2 on the pop charts, according to Joel Whitburn's Pop Memories: 18901954.[40]. I've Got My Love To Keep Me Warm Billie Holiday 2. Two of Holiday's songs placed on the chart, "Trav'lin' Light" with Paul Whiteman, which topped the chart, and "Lover Man", which reached number 5. Family (3) Trivia (11) The New York Amsterdam News reviewed the broadcasts and reported an improvement in Holiday's performance. The show began with Holliday singing "His Eye Is On The Sparrow". "I had been feeling bad for so long, I wanted to laugh." White Spirit debuted in 1980 on the fledgling heavy metal independent label Neat Records, the U.K. label that became the home in 1981 for some of the biggest band of the eighties like Raven and Venom.White Spirit were considered as part of the 'New Wave Of British Heavy Metal' (NWOBHM). No longer able to obtain a cabaret license to work in New York City, Holiday nonetheless packed New York's Carnegie Hall 10 days after her release. By 1935 Billie Holiday had already collaborated with some of the top jazz artists in New York. Holiday was arrested again for a similar crime, but this time she was acquitted. In 1972, Diana Ross' portrayal of Holiday in Lady Sings the Blues was nominated for an Oscar and won a Golden Globe. [67], By the late 1940s, Holiday had begun recording a number of slow, sentimental ballads. In October 1949, Holiday recorded "Crazy He Calls Me", which was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 2010. Young died in March 1959. [99] On July 15, she received last rites. Her songs "What a Little Moonlight Can Do" and "Easy Living" were imitated by singers across America and were quickly becoming jazz standards. Her next role, which she began to act at age 21, was the role for which she became best known: the role of Effie Melody White in the Broadway musical Dreamgirls. [70] She was ranked fifth in Billboard's annual college poll of "girl singers" on July 6, 1947 (Jo Stafford was first). Meeropol, a Jewish schoolteacher from the Bronx, used the pseudonym "Lewis Allan" for the poem, which was set to music and performed at teachers' union meetings. Holiday was posthumously nominated for 23 Grammy awards.[105]. "[43] The New York Herald Tribune reported of a concert in 1946 that her performance had little variation in melody and no change in tempo. After a turbulent childhood, Holiday began singing in nightclubs in Harlem, where she was heard by producer John Hammond, who liked her voice. "I took them out of box and fastened them smack to the side of my head without even looking twice." Lady Day: Billie Holiday Duke Ellington called Billie Holiday "the essence of cool," a reference to her equipoise in performance. Billie had passed away in 1959 after she was hospitalized due to cirrhosis of the liver. "Holiday is in good voice now", wrote the reviewer, "and these new readings will be much appreciated by her following". Jennifer Holliday took to Twitter to celebrate her 62nd birthday with a song. McKay, like most of the men in her life, was abusive. First it was yes, then it was a maybe But the "I Am Telling You I'm Not Going" singer now says she will in fact be going to. They were allowed to improvise on the material. [53] The song reached number 23 on the pop charts and number one on the R&B charts, then called the Harlem Hit Parade. [126] The hit "I've Got My Love to Keep Me Warm", was also recorded by Ray Noble, Glen Gray and Fred Astaire, whose rendering was a bestseller for weeks. She continued to have success as a recording artist through the rest of the decade. Her manager, Joe Glaser, jazz critic Leonard Feather, photojournalist Allan Morrison, and the singer's own friends all tried in vain to persuade her to go to a hospital. A Broadway production starring Audra McDonald was filmed and broadcast on HBO in 2016; McDonald received an Emmy Award nomination. The dog leaped at Holiday, knocking off her hat, and tackling her to the ground. Actress and singer Jennifer Holliday poses for a photo during an interview in New York, Oct. 7, 2016. However, Shaw played clarinet on four songs she recorded in New York on July 10, 1936: "Did I Remember? She soon demanded a raise from her manager, Joe Glaser. She also won a 1982 Tony Award for Dreamgirls. She was erect and beautiful; poised and smiling. "[10], Holliday attended Texas Southern University. Live recordings of the second Carnegie Hall concert were released on a Verve/HMV album in the UK in late 1961 called The Essential Billie Holiday. Who was Billie Holiday? He was eighteen, she was sixteen, and I was three' and ended, very nearly shyly, with her hope for love and a long life with 'my man' at her side. "I didn't want to do it with the ordinary six pieces. In 2001 she was presenter for the tap dance show 21 Below at the Town Hall in New York, and also appeared in the Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS' Nothing Like a Dame show at the St. James Theatre in 2002. Solitude Billie Holiday 8. Metronome expressed its concerns in 1946 about "Good Morning Heartache", saying, "there's a danger that Billie's present formula will wear thin, but up to now it's wearing well. Billie Holiday was a jazz singer who rose to fame during the Harlem Renaissance, a cultural movement that took place in the 1920s and 1930s in the Harlem neighborhood of New York City. There are no surviving live recordings of Holiday with Shaw's band. After the third curtain call, she passed out. You will seldom see a major gospel show without a musical reference to this concert's arrangements. Billie Holiday was born on 7 April 1915. Greatest Christmas Songs . And very damn little of me. She is by far the most spectacular performer I've had the pleasure of seeing. The charts of the 1940s did not list songs outside the top 30, making it impossible to recognize minor hits. The worms of every kind of excess drugs were only one had eaten her. ", The article was also published in the following book . In late 1937, Holiday had a brief stint as a big-band vocalist with Count Basie. She took her professional pseudonym from Billie Dove, an actress she admired, and Clarence Halliday, her probable father. She recorded two songs: "Your Mother's Son-In-Law" and "Riffin' the Scotch", the latter being her first hit. 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Related Posts. I begged Milt and told him I had to have strings behind me. It was evident, even then, that Miss Holiday was ill. "[30] Young nicknamed her "Lady Day", and she called him "Prez". He said, "When she rehearsed with the band, it was really just a matter of getting her tunes like she wanted them, because she knew how she wanted to sound and you couldn't tell her what to do. Good Morning, Heartache "I Can't Get Started", "They Can't Take That Away from Me", and "Swing It Brother Swing" are all commercially available. She sang "Saddest Tale" in her scene. I needed the prestige and publicity all right, but you can't pay rent with it." Her final album, Lady in Satin, was released in 1958. "He began lapping me and loving me like crazy", she said. In 1951, she published a memoir, Tallulah: My Autiobiography. )[8] "[60] On October 4, 1944, Holiday entered the studio to record "Lover Man", saw the string ensemble and walked out. Holiday's drug addictions were a problem on the set. She was buried at Saint Raymond's Cemetery in the Bronx. Holliday also performed in the touring company of Sing, Mahalia, Sing in 1985. In the darkness, my face burned and my eyes. In her final years Holiday had been progressively swindled out of her earnings by McKay and she died with US$0.70 in the bank. Unfortunately, the continued drug use took a toll on her career after she got arrested in 1947. She married trombonist Jimmy Monroe on August 25, 1941. She then met . The YouTube video has been viewed more than 1.3 million times as of July 2021. "He had a great sense of humor and he made me laugh all the time," Holliday says of her first husband. [1] Holliday originated the role of Effie and remained with the show for nearly four years after its December 20, 1981 opening. She also recorded her version of "Embraceable You", which was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 2005. "Trav'lin' Light" also reached 18 on Billboard's year-end chart. Anslinger is known for launching the first huge "war on drugs" targeting primarily opioid and cannabisuse. Gabler said, "I made Billie a real pop singer. "It reminds me of how Pop died, but I have to keep singing it, not only because people ask for it, but because twenty years after Pop died the things that killed him are still happening in the South", she wrote in her autobiography. [52], On June 12, 1942, in Los Angeles, Holiday recorded "Trav'lin Light" with Paul Whiteman for a new label, Capitol Records. [79] Holiday said she began using hard drugs in the early 1940s. She was also inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, though not in that genre; the website states that "Billie Holiday changed jazz forever". [22], Late in 1932, 17-year-old Holiday replaced the singer Monette Moore at Covan's, a club on West 132nd Street. Other historians consider this an anomaly, probably inserted by a hospital or government worker. The film is directed by Lee Daniels and stars actress Andra Day in her debut film role as the iconic singer. "[10], Her second marriage, which began on March 21, 1993, and ended in 1994, was to Rev. But it closed after three weeks.[78]. [7] Some historians have disputed Holiday's paternity, as a copy of her birth certificate in the Baltimore archives lists her father as "Frank DeViese". [51] Herzog claimed Holiday contributed only a few lines to the lyrics. Plagued by racism and McCarthyism, producer Jules Levey and script writer Herbert Biberman were pressed to lessen Holiday's and Armstrong's roles to avoid the impression that black people created jazz. [12] She was sent to the House of the Good Shepherd, a Catholic reform school, where she was baptized on March 19, 1925. "I left two years later as a star. Her improvisation compensated for lack of musical education. She explained of Meadows: "We just didn't know each other well enough. In 1946, Holiday won the Metronome magazine popularity poll. Gilbert Millstein of The New York Times, who was the announcer at Holiday's 1956 Carnegie Hall concerts and wrote parts of the sleeve notes for the album The Essential Billie Holiday (see above), described her death in these sleeve notes, dated 1961: Billie Holiday died in Metropolitan Hospital, New York, on Friday, July 17, 1959, in the bed in which she had been arrested for illegal possession of narcotics a little more than a month before, as she lay mortally ill; in the room from which a police guard had been removed by court order only a few hours before her death. Holliday was a featured vocalist on the number one single "I Want to Know What Love Is" by Foreigner in 1985. Sadie had opened a restaurant, the East Side Grill, and mother and daughter worked long hours there. And Andra Day is . [69] She was ranked second in the DownBeat poll for 1946 and 1947, her highest ranking in that poll. When Holiday returned to Europe almost five years later, in 1959, she made one of her last television appearances for Granada's Chelsea at Nine in London. [citation needed] Holiday's version ranked 6 on the year-end single chart available for 1937. ", "I'm Yours", and "I'll Be Seeing You", a number one hit for Bing Crosby. She is best known for her debut single, the Dreamgirls number and rhythm-and-blues/pop hit, "And I Am Telling You I'm Not Going", for . She left the band shortly after. On the final note, all lights went out, and when they came back on, Holiday was gone. [80], The loss of her cabaret card reduced Holiday's earnings. Fagan began borrowing large amounts from Holiday to support the restaurant. Holiday's improvisation of melody to fit the emotion was revolutionary. "They had taken miles of footage of music and scenes", Holiday said, but "none of it was left in the picture. Yet, something appears to have changed along the line. With Arthur Herzog, Jr., a pianist, she wrote a song based on the lyric, "God Bless the Child", and added music. Her later recordings showed the effects of declining health on her voice, as it grew coarse and no longer projected its former vibrancy. In her autobiography, Holiday describes an incident in which she was not permitted to sit on the bandstand with other vocalists because she was black. Although she had initially stopped drinking on her doctor's orders, it was not long before she relapsed. [93] The liner notes for this album were written partly by Gilbert Millstein of the New York Times, who, according to these notes, served as narrator of the Carnegie Hall concerts. In 1946, Holiday recorded "Good Morning Heartache". She was previously married to Rev. commentaries from band leader Guy Barker, singers . Billie Holiday Birth Name: Eleanora Fagan Birth Place: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States Profession Singer, songwriter Subject (person only) 4 Credits CBS This Morning 2015 Ultimate. The below 10 online references were originally retrieved November 13, 2010, and are archived via, "Billie Holiday, famed jazz singer, died yesterday in, Note: Keith, the author, was, at the time, Editor of the, 19371938: Working for Count Basie and Artie Shaw, 1939: "Strange Fruit" and Commodore Records, 19471952: Legal issues and Carnegie Hall concert. (2) = Available on DVD. Her lover, Joe Guy, traveled to Hollywood while Holiday was filming and supplied her with drugs. This sent her into a deep depression. Not only was there assurance of phrasing and intonation; but there was also an outgoing warmth, a palpable eagerness to reach and touch the audience. The biographical film Lady Sings the Blues, loosely based on Holiday's autobiography, was released in 1972 and was nominated for five Academy Awards, including Diana Ross for Best Actress. And that's just the way it felt", she recalled. It is Billie Holiday who was, and still remains, the greatest single musical influence on me. The musical director, Toots Camarata, said Holiday was overwhelmed with joy. During the song's long introduction, the lights dimmed and all movement had to cease. On May 27 she was in court. Sugar Chile Robinson, Billie Holiday, Count Basie and His Sextet, 'Sugar Chile' Robinson, Billie Holiday, Count Basie and His Sextet, List of awards and nominations received by Billie Holiday, List of people on the postage stamps of the United States, List of Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductees, http://sami.bl.uk/uhtbin/cgisirsi/x/0/0/5?searchdata1=CKEY5192620, https://syncopatedtimes.com/adelaide-halls-secret-visit-to-billie-holidays-bedside-before-her-death/, "Black History" "On This Day in April" "7 1915 Billie Holiday a.k.a. This association placed her among the first black women to work with a white orchestra, an unusual arrangement at that time. (1) = Available on audio When Holiday died on July 17, 1959, her life savings was $750, according to NPR. [77], On April 27, 1948, Bob Sylvester and her promoter Al Wilde arranged a Broadway show for her. [citation needed]. Billie Holiday was also portrayed by actress Paula Jai Parker in Touched by an Angel's 2000 episode "God Bless the Child". Holliday's later R&B hits included "Hard Time For Lovers" (1985), "No Frills Love" (1985), "I'm On Your Side" (1991) and "A Woman's Got the Power" (2000). Solitude Billie Holiday 3. After attending kindergarten at St. Frances Academy, she frequently skipped school, and her truancy resulted in her being brought before the juvenile court on January 5, 1925, when she was nine years old. The audience was hers from before she sang, greeting her and saying good-bye with heavy, loving applause. I was very much moved. On May 23, 2012, Holliday performed "And I Am Telling You I'm Not Going" alongside American Idol finalist Jessica Sanchez during the American Idol Season 11 finale. "I opened scared", Holiday said, "[I was] expecting the cops to come in any chorus and carry me off. [54] On October 11, 1943, Life magazine wrote, "She has the most distinctive style of any popular vocalist, [and] is imitated by other vocalists. [98] Narcotics police went to her hospital room, claiming they had found heroin in her bedroom. Mee-Lai Stone and Guardian . While at it, she found love in the arms of Louis McKay. She is an actress, known for Ally McBeal (1997), I'm Gonna Git You Sucka (1988) and Below the Belt (1980). Billie Holiday received several Esquire Magazine awards during her lifetime. article: Symphony in Black: A Rhapsody of Negro Life. "Son-in-Law" sold 300 copies, and "Riffin' the Scotch", released on November 11, sold 5,000 copies. [1] A number of her songs became hits on the US Dance charts as well. The lights went down, the musicians began to play and the narration began. When she arrived at Newark, her pianist Bobby Tucker and her dog Mister were waiting. She continued to appear on the charts throughout the 1990s, but never had the same level of success she had in the 1980s. Billie Holiday. [96] On May 31, 1959, Holiday was taken to Metropolitan Hospital in New York for treatment of both liver and heart disease. By March 1938, Shaw and Holiday had been broadcast on New York City's powerful radio station WABC (the original WABC, now WCBS). It re-charted the following year, peaking at number 1. On Wednesday, singer Jennifer Holliday was finally unmasked as Miss Teddy on "The Masked Singer." The Grammy-winning artist got her start performing in Broadway musicals, such as "Dreamgirls," before she eventually found her way to "The Masked Singer" stage in the seventh season of the Fox musical guessing game show. [citation needed] It was in this year that Holiday scored her sole number one hit as a featured vocalist on the available pop charts of the 1930s, "Carelessly". She was unmasked on April 13 alongside Duane Chapman as "Armadillo" of Team Good. [125], Holiday had 16 best-selling songs in 1937, making the year her most commercially successful. [35] Holiday was hired by Artie Shaw a month after being fired from the Count Basie Band. Bing Crosby, Cy, Doris Day and more. Only Billy Stewart's R&B version of "Summertime" reached a higher chart placement than Holiday's, charting at number 10 thirty years later in 1966. In 2006, the concert became available on DVD under the title, Echeverria Jr., Steve (March 28, 2008). It was released under the name "Benny Goodman & His Orchestra" in 1933. [8] DeViese lived in Philadelphia, and Sadie Harris may have known him through her work. [citation needed]. She also recorded new songs that were popular at the time, including, "My Old Flame", "How Am I to Know? [73], Holiday was released early (on March 16, 1948) because of good behavior. UPDATE: Holliday has canceled plans to perform at the inauguration. [1] In 1998, Holliday was featured on the album, My Favorite Broadway Ladies as one of "The Queens of Broadway.". "[44] "Strange Fruit" was the equivalent of a top-twenty hit in the 1930s. Billie Holiday's song "Strange Fruit" talks about lynching. Because of their success, they were given an extra time slot to broadcast in April, which increased their exposure. But in December 1991, just nine months later, they divorced; the marriage, according to Holliday, "ran out of steam." The song Fine and Mellow, which Billie Holiday wrote herself, was recorded in 1957 with an all-star backing band including her friends Coleman Hawkins, Ben Webster, Vic Dickenson, Roy Eldridge and Gerry Mulligan. It recently publicly came to light that the singer Adelaide Hall made a secret visit to Holidays bedside at the Metropolitan Hospital, believed to have taken place on (or around) June 12, 1959. With no support from her parents, she made arrangements with her older, married half-sister, Eva Miller, for Eleanora to stay with her in Baltimore. By the late 1940s, despite her popularity and concert power, her singles were little played on radio, perhaps because of her reputation. Guy was banned from the set when he was found there by Holiday's manager, Joe Glaser. Not long after Eleanora was born, Clarence abandoned his family to pursue a career as a jazz banjo player and guitarist. Billie Holiday (born April 7, 1915, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA - died July 17, 1959, New York City, New York, USA) was an American jazz singer and songwriter. [124] Most noteworthy, the popular jazz standard "Summertime" sold well and was listed on the pop charts of the time at number 12, the first time the jazz standard charted. She wrote "Don't Explain" after she caught her husband, Jimmy Monroe, with lipstick on his collar. Billie Holiday is considered one of the best jazz vocalists of all time, Holiday had a thriving career as a jazz singer for many years before she lost her battle with substance abuse. She later said that the imagery of the song reminded her of her father's death and that this played a role in her resistance to performing it. Holiday sang 32 songs at the Carnegie concert by her count, including Cole Porter's "Night and Day" and her 1930s hit, "Strange Fruit". Eleanora grew up in Baltimore and had a very difficult childhood. But I will not forget the metamorphosis that night. "[57] Jimmy Davis and Roger "Ram" Ramirez, the song's writers, had tried to interest Holiday in the song. [28] Hammond said the Wilson-Holiday records from 1935 to 1938 were a great asset to Brunswick. Raphael G. Warnock,[6] later elected United States Senator from Georgia. After the initial weight loss, she released an LP and video titled Im On Your Side. "I needed some money one night and I knew Mom was sure to have some", she said. The Commodore release did not get any airplay, but the controversial song sold well, though Gabler attributed that mostly to the record's other side, "Fine and Mellow", which was a jukebox hit. In a new Billie Holiday documentary, friends fill in the missing notes Arts Dec 16, 2020 10:48 PM EST In the opening performance of a new documentary, Billie Holiday is mesmerizing in full. [89][90] To accompany her autobiography, Holiday released the LP Lady Sings the Blues in June 1956. The biopic The United States vs. Billie Holiday follows the legend in her later years during her long-standing battle with the U.S. government. . Jennifer Holliday illness: What disease does Jennifer Holliday have? The attempts failed because in 1947 Biberman was listed as one of the Hollywood Ten and sent to jail. She recorded it again for Verve. This is. There were tears in her eyes After we finished the album I went into the control room and listened to all the takes. Holiday's mother Sadie, nicknamed "The Duchess", opened a restaurant called Mom Holiday's. Her 1930s recordings with Wilson used a small jazz combo; recordings for Decca often involved strings. Billie Holiday In 1947 Holiday was arrested for a narcotics violation and spent a year in a rehabilitation centre. "It was like experiencing two deaths at the same time," she remembered. Jimmy Rushing, Basie's male vocalist, called her unprofessional. He later wrote: The narration began with the ironic account of her birth in Baltimore 'Mom and Pop were just a couple of kids when they got married. Holiday, who was born in 1915 and died in 1959, was known for her emotive, soulful voice and her ability to convey deep feeling through her music. A dance version of "And I Am Telling You I'm Not Going" peaked at number 6 on the Hot Dance Music/Club Play chart in 2001. figurine mickey pas cher Publi le 4 juin 2022 . she was . [81] Her lawyer in the late 1950s, Earle Warren Zaidins, registered with BMI only two songs she had written or co-written, costing her revenue. A recording of a live set in Germany was released as Lady Love Billie Holiday. [1] In 1982, a pop version of the song was released as a single. [27] She began recording under her own name a year later for Vocalion in sessions produced by Hammond and Bernie Hanighen. Lester's death on March 15th. The district attorney spoke in her defense, saying, "If your honor please, this is a case of a drug addict, but more serious, however, than most of our cases, Miss Holiday is a professional entertainer and among the higher rank as far as income was concerned." Holiday was arrested again on January 22, 1949, in her room at the Hotel Mark Twain in San Francisco. And there was mocking wit. Billie Holiday (born Eleanora Fagan; April 7, 1915 July 17, 1959) was an American jazz and swing music singer. It premiered in 1986 at the Alliance Theatre and has been revived several times. Brunswick paid Holiday a flat fee rather than royalties, which saved the company money. Texan Jennifer Holliday gained national recognition when she had the lead in the Broadway musical Your Arm's Too Short to Box with God. -- Jennifer Holliday slid . Ella Fitzgerald named "You Better Go Now" her favorite recording of Holiday's. With its tale of lynching, it was largely out of character with most of the songs Holiday had performed up to the time. [121], Most of Holiday's early successes were released under the name "Teddy Wilson & His Orchestra". [23] Hammond arranged for Holiday to make her recording debut at age 18, in November 1933, with Benny Goodman. She had been strikingly beautiful, but her talent was wasted. Her popularity was unusual because she did not have a current hit record. [25], In 1935, Holiday was signed to Brunswick by John Hammond to record pop tunes with pianist Teddy Wilson in the swing style for the growing jukebox trade. She was 44. . [26] Brunswick did not favor the recording session because producers wanted Holiday to sound more like Cleo Brown. Jamie Cullum, Cassandra Wilson, Laufey and more. [107] Halls visit contradicts later claims (after Holidays death) that Holiday was kept isolated away from friends during her hospitalization. [2] Several films about her life have been released, most recently The United States vs. Billie Holiday (2021). Holiday wanted to sing at his funeral, but her request was denied. [63] "Big Stuff" and "Don't Explain" were recorded again but with additional strings and a viola. 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