How ‘Strange Fruit’ Killed Billie Holiday – Progressive.org
Billie Holiday and Mister at Downbeat in New York City, ca. Feb. 1947. Courtesy Library of Congress.
“Strange Fruit” may have been written by American songwriter and poet Abel Meeropol (a.k.a. Lewis Allen), but ever since Billie Holiday sang the three brief stanzas to music in 1937, she’s owned it…
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I first heard this song by Nina Simone, in the early 1960s. When I was older, I sought out the original, and began a lifetime love of Billie Holiday’s voice. Like many performers of her generation, her own life story was tragic indeed.
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