Fifty years ago, on July 17, 1959, Billie Holiday died an untimely death at age 44 in ... Child"; "Strange Fruit") to everyday standards ("I Wished on the Moon"; "A Foggy Day"; "No Greater Love"). At ...

Billie Holiday grew up in Baltimore in the 1920s. She never had any formal singing training and never learned to read music. She moved to New York City with her mother as a teenager, and began ...

For her transformation into jazz legend Billie Holiday, Andra Day threw out the rule book. She started smoking cigarettes. She glugged "cold water and gin." She yelled and screamed all the time ...

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 ...

Everything you’ve head about Andra Day as Billie Holiday is true. Everything you've head about Andra Day's Golden Globe-nominated tour de force as Billie Holiday is true. It's the breakthrough ...

“The United States vs. Billie Holiday” makes as strong a case for Holiday being a civil rights pioneer as its stunning star does for potential Oscar glory. For Holiday, the infamous tune ...

Getting to play Billie Holiday in Lee Daniels’ earth-shattering new biopic was one of the biggest challenges of her career yet. Up until this role, Day had only two acting credits: a cameo in ...

But in his new movie, The United States vs Billie Holiday, starring Andra Day, Lee Daniels shines a light on… By The Hollywood Reporter On a list of Civil Rights movement leaders, few people ...

Golden Globe-nominee Andra Day as Billie Holiday falls in love with federal agent Jimmy Fletcher, played by Trevante Rhodes.Photo Credit: Takashi Seida Golden Globe-nominee Andra Day as Billie ...

During that time, one of her peers gave Holiday her infamous nickname, Lady Day. Although she became known to her fans as Billie Holiday or Lady Day, the “Strange Fruit” singer’s legal name ...

Andra Day’s tour de force performance as Billie Holiday won her rave reviews and the Golden Globe for Best Actress. She now also has a captive audience in media titan Oprah Winfrey. OWN and ...