Andra Day plays jazz legend Billie Holiday in Hulu's The United ... Day said that she also had to change her voice to sound like Holiday while performing some of the late jazz legend's greatest ...

“What comes out is what I feel,” she once said. No one else can sound like Billie Holiday because no one else lived like Billie Holiday. Yet in generation after generation, her influence is ...

Billie Holiday” was the product of a year-and-a-half of research and planning, even before shooting began in late 2019. “These songs don’t sound like a record ... “If she was at Cafe ...

Billie Holiday was ... Music and a biographer of Holiday. "If you sing one of the songs that they're famous for and you don't sing it like they did, you sound like you're doing it wrong," Clarke ...

She soon started singing. Her first producer, John Hammond, said she “sang like ... wanted to sound,” Count Basie once said, “and you couldn’t tell her what to do.” Billie Holiday ...

Mr. Hentoff recounted the time he booked Holiday on the CBS TV series The Sound ... “Do you like Billie Holiday?” the guy asks as he turns on the radio. “I love him,” she says, obliviously.

She sounds like my grandmother — that high ... is upon a broader swath of the country. Q: Is the story of Billie Holiday a tragedy or a triumph? A: It's both. Often it's positioned as the ...

Although her warm, feathery voice inhabited a limited range, she used it like an accomplished jazz instrumentalist, stretching and condensing phrases in an ever-shifting dialogue with accompanying ...

Mildred paved the way for the careers of Billie Holiday and Ella ... from trumpeter Louis Armstrong. Holiday acknowledged that she tried to sound like a horn and it worked for her.