国立アメリカ歴史博物館のインスタグラム(amhistorymuseum) - 4月4日 02時24分

For the beginning of #JazzAppreciationMonth we’re taking a closer look at the artists featured in LeRoy Neiman’s “Big Band” painting, starting with Lady Day herself.
Billie Holiday was known for her soulful voice. Her popular song “God Bless the Child” went on to sell over a million copies.
One of her best known songs, “Strange Fruit,” calls attention to lynching in America, with haunting lyrics like “Southern trees bear strange fruit, blood on the trees and blood at the root.” Originally published as a poem by Abel Meeropol in 1937, Holiday first recorded the song in 1939. The song continued to resonated decades after its first recording. In 1999, Time magazine named “Strange Fruit” the best song of the century. In 2002, @librarycongress added it to the National Recording Registry.
Despite the continued resonance of “Strange Fruit,” when she died in 1959 at age 44 she only had 70 cents in the band. Sixty years later, her words live on, both in recordings of her own music and in many, many covers.
Learn more about Holiday at: https://s.si.edu/BillieHoliday
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Support of jazz programming at the museum is made possible by the LeRoy Neiman Foundation; The Argus Fund; the Ella Fitzgerald Charitable Foundation, founding donor of the Jazz Appreciation Month endowment; David C. Frederick and Sophia Lynn; Goldman Sachs; and the John Hammond Performance Series Endowment Fund.
The painting Big Band was donated to the Museum by the LeRoy Neiman Foundation.

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