Frases de Billie Holiday

Eleanora Fagan Gough, conocida mundialmente como Billie Holiday , fue una cantante estadunidense de jazz. Billie era apodada Lady Day, y junto con Sarah Vaughan y Ella Fitzgerald, logró convertirse en una de las voces femeninas más importantes e influyentes del jazz., consideración que aún perdura a día de hoy. El crítico Robert Christgau consideraba que era «inigualable y posiblemente la mejor cantante del siglo»​.[1]​ Por otro lado, Frank Sinatra la tomó como «su mayor influencia» e «incuestionablemente la influencia más importante en el canto popular estadounidense de los últimos veinte años».[2]​ Nueva York, 17 de julio 1959,

Su tema «Strange Fruit» fue considerado como la mejor canción del siglo XX, por la revista Time en 1999.3 El valor artístico de Billie Holiday reside tanto en su capacidad interpretativa, como en su dominio del swing. Asimismo, destacaba por la capacidad de adaptación de sus cualidades vocales, al contenido de la canción. Billie Holiday impregnaba sus canciones con una intensidad inigualable que, en numerosos casos, era fruto del traspaso de sus propias vivencias a las letras que cantaba. Este tono tan personal que la caracterizaba, hace que su estilo esté muy vinculado a intérpretes clásicos de blues como Bessie Smith o Ma Rainey ; aunque también está clara la deuda, confirmada por ella misma, con Louis Armstrong, y, desde luego, con quien sería su principal acompañante: el saxofonista tenor y clarinetista Lester Young.

✵ 7. abril 1915 – 17. julio 1959
Billie Holiday Foto

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Lady Sings the Blues
Lady Sings the Blues
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Billie Holiday Frases y Citas

Billie Holiday: Frases en inglés

“No two people on earth are alike, and it's got to be that way in music or it isn't music.”

Billie Holiday libro Lady Sings the Blues

Fuente: Lady Sings the Blues (1956), Ch. 4.

“I'm always making a comeback but nobody ever tells me where I've been.”

Billie Holiday libro Lady Sings the Blues

Fuente: Lady Sings the Blues (1956), Ch. 23.

“Them that's got shall get
Them that's not shall lose”

God Bless The Child
Contexto: Them that's got shall get
Them that's not shall lose
So the Bible said and it still is news
Mama may have, Papa may have
But God bless the child that's got his own
That's got his own.

“You can't copy anybody and end with anything. If you copy, it means you're working without any real feeling. No two people on earth are alike, and it's got to be that way in music or it isn't music.”

Billie Holiday libro Lady Sings the Blues

Variante: Everyones got to be different. You can't copy anybody and end up with anything. If you copy, it means you're working without any real feeling. And without feeling, whatever you do amounts to nothing.
Fuente: Lady Sings the Blues

“Southern trees bear a strange fruit
Blood on the leaf and blood at the root
Black bodies swingin’ in the southern breeze
Strange fruit hangin’ in the poplar trees.”

"Strange Fruit" (1939). Though Holiday's renditions made this anti-lynching song famous, it was written by Abel Meeropol (using his pseudonym "Lewis Allen").
Misattributed

“Mama may have, Papa may have
But God bless the child that's got his own
That's got his own.”

God Bless The Child
Contexto: Them that's got shall get
Them that's not shall lose
So the Bible said and it still is news
Mama may have, Papa may have
But God bless the child that's got his own
That's got his own.

“Somebody once said we never know what is enough until we know what's more than enough.”

Billie Holiday libro Lady Sings the Blues

Fuente: Lady Sings the Blues (1956), Ch. 20.

“[I]t takes a bad woman to be a good godmother.”

Remark made to Rosemary Clooney, circa summer 1956, regarding Holiday's qualifications to serve as godmother to Clooney's second child, as quoted by Clooney in "Profiles: The Heart, The Head, and The Pipes" http://www.rosemaryclooney.com/_1libraryfiles/newyorker8392.html by Whitney Balliett in The New Yorker (August 3, 1992). "Just before she left, I asked her if she would like to be the godmother of my second child, Maria, who was about to be born, and she said yes, that it takes a bad woman to be a good godmother. It was the last time I saw her."

“I've been told that nobody sings the word "hunger" like I do. Or the word "love."”

Billie Holiday libro Lady Sings the Blues

Fuente: Lady Sings the Blues (1956), Ch. 22.

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