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Billie Holiday

Billie Holiday. By:Imani Edwards. Lyrics.

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Billie Holiday

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  1. Billie Holiday By:Imani Edwards

  2. Lyrics Southern trees bear strange fruit
Blood on the leaves
Blood at the root
Black bodies swinging in the southern breeze
Strange fruit hanging from the poplar trees
Pastoral scene of the gallant south
The bulging eyes and the twisted mouth
The scent of magnolia sweet and fresh
Then the sudden smell of burning flesh
Here is a fruit for the crows to pluck
for the rain to gather
for the wind to suck
for the sun to rot
for the tree to drop
Here is a strange and bitter crop

  3. The Beautiful Ms.Billie Holiday

  4. BIOGRAPHY Born on April 7, 1915 in Baltimore Maryland African American singer Billie Holiday was born into poverty by an unwed teen mom. Billie was always a hard worker. Her first job was running errands and cleaning prostitution houses. At the age of twelve she moved to New York City with her mother. Due to the great depression Sadie Fagan (holidays mother) lost her job. In 1932 Billie Holiday auditioned for a singing job and got it. She began sing at different clubs around Harlem were she was finally discovered by Benny Goodman who then used her on a record. From then on her career took off.

  5. Quote “If you copy , it means you’re working without any real feeling. No two people on earth are alike , and its got to be that way in in music or it isn’t music.” – Billie Holiday To me this quote means that when you don’t do your work yourself it’s not coming from you and your personality does not shine through.

  6. Harlem Renaissance Billie Holiday was a part of the Harlem Renaissance as well as James Baldwin, and Langston Hughes. Billie Holiday’s music really spoke to people. Her life was very hard and that’s why people really related to her because she went through a lot of things that they have been through.

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