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The United States vs Billie Holiday: Oscar nominee Andra Day shines in story of jazz legend persecuted by FBI – ABC News
The United States vs Billie Holiday focuses on the FBI’s racially-motivated campaign to shut down the singer at the height of her career — by weaponising her addiction….
When jazz icon Billie Holiday performed her protest anthem Strange Fruit, her eerie vocals conjuring images of Black bodies hanging in nooses from the trees, the song would often leave her in pieces.
“It affects me so much I get sick,” she wrote in her autobiography, Lady Sings the Blues. “It takes all the strength out of me.”
The Federal Bureau of Investigation was less moved by her performance, however, deeming Strange Fruit which bore out the history and horror of African-American slavery an…
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