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MUSIC RICHARD COOK laments the premature decline of a legend shadowed by sadness. So many distracting bits of legend have attached themselves to ......(Continue Reading) Billie Holiday
Billie Holiday, certainly one of the foremost American song stylists and often called the greatest American jazz singer, was born Eleanora ......(Continue Reading)Goodbye to the blues: Billie Holiday is remembered as much for her tragic life as for her beautiful voice. But now, thanks to a new generation of female
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