![]() ![]() ![]() Billie Holiday, the first Holiday biopic since Diana Ross played the late, great singer in 1972’s Lady Sings the Blues. That re-evaluation will likely intensify with The United States vs. They really made her into just a tragic drug addict who sang jazz. “And people are just starting to discover that. “She’s more than just a musical icon,” says singer Andra Day, who covered “Strange Fruit” in 2017. Since her death in 1959 of complications from years of drug and alcohol abuse, Holiday has remained a lingering presence in pop culture, and her unhurried, hypnotically forlorn phrasing can be heard in the work of Erykah Badu, Valerie June, and many other unconventional soul singers. “People were sending me videos of people singing ‘Strange Fruit’ in the middle of the street. “We were in the middle of editing and that happened,” he recalls. He suddenly got a firsthand look at just how timely his new film project was. Billie Holiday, which tells the story of the late, troubled jazz singer and how “Strange Fruit,” the anti-lynching protest song she introduced to the world, brought her both triumph and troubles - when he noticed an unsettling parallel. ![]() Director Lee Daniels was in the midst of wrapping up his latest movie - The United States vs. ![]()
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