Hot Sugar Band – Eleanora – The Early Years of Billie Holiday (2020) [Official Digital Download 24bit/44,1kHz]

Hot Sugar Band – Eleanora – The Early Years of Billie Holiday (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 56:14 minutes | 619 MB | Genre: Jazz
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Who is this young woman who watches with a resigned eye her companion dancing with her latest conquest ? Who is this young woman thrown to the ground by her fickle companion ? Who is this scorned young woman who sings a poignant blues to ward off her misfortune ?

Eleanora Harris Fagan, known as Billie Holiday (1915-1959), first appeared on screen in Duke Ellington’s Symphony in Black (1935).

Her sad situation seems to herald the sad fate of Billie Holiday (1915-1959), that of a musician condemned to pay an extraordinary donation for singing by a life obscured from end to end by misery, prostitution, racism, alcohol and drugs that will eventually burn her wings.

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