Billie Holiday
Billie Holiday (Eleanora Fagan Gough, Philadelphia, PA, April 7, 1915 – New York City, NY, July 17, 1959) was an American jazz singer and songwriter. Nicknamed Lady Day by her loyal friend and musical partner Lester Young, Holiday was a highly original influence on jazz and pop singing. Her vocal style, strongly inspired by jazz instrumentalists, pioneered a new way of manipulating phrasing and tempo. Above all, she was admired for her deeply personal and intimate approach to singing. Read more on Last.fm
Billie Holiday has 55 songs that have been featured in movies like Ae Fond Kiss..., Nine 1/2 Weeks, No Direction Home: Bob Dylan and The Affair. What is your favorite song by Billie Holiday?
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Songs from Billie Holiday
- Strange Fruit
- I'm Yours (1930)
- Pennies from Heaven
- Sugar (That Sugar Baby o' Mine) (1926)
- Did I Remember (To Tell You I Adore You) (1936)
- What a Little Moonlight Can Do (1934)
- MISS BROWN TO YOU
- Don't Worry 'Bout Me
- Love Is Here To Stay
- The Very Thought of You
- For All We Know
- THEY CAN'T TAKE THAT AWAY FROM ME
- Just One More Chance
- I've Got Those Lost My Man Blues
- Body and Soul
- He's Funny That Way
- Sunny Side of the Street
- Time On My Hands
- Mandy Is Two
- Trav'lin' Light
- You Go to My Head
- Big Stuff
- Solitude (1934)
- Stormy Blues
- It's Easy To Remember
- I Love My Man
- The Man I Love
- Ill Wind
- The Man I Love (1924)
- I Hear Music
- Don't Explain
- Foolin' Myself
- All the Way
- It Had to Be You
- GOD BLESS THE CHILD
- I Cover the Waterfront
- Am I Blue?
- Sugar
- Let's Call the Whole Thing Off
- I'll Be Seeing You
- The Child
- Lover Man
- Gloomy Sunday
- I Can't Give You Anything But Love
- Let's Dream in the Moonlight
- YOU CAN'T BE MINE (AND SOMEONE ELSE'S TOO)
- Them There Eyes
- I'll Be Seeing You (1937)
- Comes Love
- What's New?
- But Not for Me
- Sophisticated Lady
- You're My Thrill
- I'll Never Fail You
- You Let Me Down