The two jazz icons, Sinatra and Holiday, were friends and influences on one another, but due to a variety of frustrating ...
Mikhala Iversen wasn't yet a toddler when Louis Armstrong visited her family, so naturally, she doesn't remember when he came to Copenhagen, Denmark. But the memory of Josephine Baker's discarded ...
On Baltimore's "Lady Day Way" in Upper Fells Point, a new mural honors jazz icon and former Baltimorean Billie Holiday.
In 1959, during what would be the final months of her life, Billie Holiday was unwell. The singer—who had honed her art in the brothels of Baltimore, fronted orchestras led by Count Basie and Artie ...
The actress said Billie Holiday "reinvigorated the civil rights movement." Andra Day opened up on playing renowned jazz singer Billie Holiday in "The United States Vs. Billie Holiday" during episode ...