🌸Billie Holiday🌸
"Strange Fruit"
For her performance of "Strange Fruit" at the Café Society, she had waiters silence the crowd when the song began.
During the song's long introduction, the lights dimmed and all movement had to cease. As Holiday began singing, only a
small spotlight illuminated her face. On the final note, all lights went out, and when they came back on, Holiday was
gone.
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Eleanora Fagan (April 7, 1915 – July 17, 1959), known professionally as Billie Holiday, was an American jazz and swing music singer with a career spanning 26 years.
