Billie Holiday

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Zahra Newman on becoming Billie Holiday: ‘I want people to feel how they do when they listen to her’
The Jamaican-born Australian performer delivers an uncanny evocation of the jazz singer in an upcoming cabaret set during the last year of Holiday’s life

Steve Dow

15, Aug, 2023 @3:00 PM

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Andra Day: ‘I want to be sexy and pow in an awards outfit’
Playing Billie Holiday was a daunting task for the first-time actor and now Oscar nominee, but she’s having a blast at the virtual award ceremonies

11, Apr, 2021 @9:00 AM

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TV tonight: the story of Billie Holiday
Billie traces writer Linda Lipnack Kuehl’s search to complete the comprehensive biography of the jazz singer. Plus: Man in Room 301 concludes. Here’s what to watch this evening

Ammar Kalia, Graeme Virtue, Hannah Verdier, Hannah J Davies and Paul Howlett

13, Mar, 2021 @6:00 AM

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The United States vs Billie Holiday review – Andra Day's film all the way
As the blues singer, Day is magnetic in Lee Daniels’s often chaotic biopic, built around a speculative romance between Holiday and a government agent

Mark Kermode

28, Feb, 2021 @8:00 AM

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God bless the style: how Billie Holiday made glamour revolutionary
With Lee Daniels’ film The United States Vs Billie Holiday out this week, the jazz star’s signatures – gowns, gloves and gardenias – are being reassessed. Could they be seen as a radical act?

Lauren Cochrane

22, Feb, 2021 @5:58 AM

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Lee Daniels: ‘Studios will give you about $10 to make a black movie’
The maverick director makes the films no one else would dare to – persuading Oprah to break her acting drought, and Nicole Kidman to pee on Zac Efron. What’s his next coup?

Hadley Freeman

20, Feb, 2021 @12:00 PM

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The United States vs Billie Holiday review – Lee Daniels' misguided biopic | Peter Bradshaw's film of the week
Lee Daniels’ bizarre decision to root this account of the singer’s late years in supposition about her romance with a federal agent cheapens her courage

Peter Bradshaw

19, Feb, 2021 @5:00 PM

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M Ward: Think of Spring review – a spectral tribute to Billie Holiday
The ever-questing Matthew Ward turns his minimalist attentions to Holiday’s lush 1958 album Lady in Satin

Neil Spencer

05, Dec, 2020 @4:00 PM

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Streaming: the best jazz films
A new Billie Holiday documentary prompts a look at the films that best capture the spirit of the jazz greats

Guy Lodge

14, Nov, 2020 @8:00 AM

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Billie review – a truer, historical spin on the great Billie Holiday
Exploitation and harassment, not ‘inner demons’, brought down the singer, argues this documentary that showcases her superb voice

Peter Bradshaw

12, Nov, 2020 @11:00 AM

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Singer, activist, sex machine, addict: the troubled brilliance of Billie Holiday
A new documentary uncovers lost tapes to tell the intimate real story of the jazz singer – one with terrible resonance today as the US continues to fight institutional racism

Alex Godfrey

06, Nov, 2020 @11:51 AM

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Jimmy Cobb obituary
Jazz drummer who continued to perform for half a century after recording Kind of Blue with Miles Davis

John Fordham

28, May, 2020 @4:16 PM

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