Dee Dee Bridgewater's love affair with Billie Holiday
Eleanora Fagan is the birth
name of Billie Holiday, the pioneering -- and troubled -- jazz
singer-songwriter whose life was cut short at the age of 44. Holiday
forged an indelible mark by way of such classics as "God Bless the
Child," "Don't Explain," "Lover Man" and "Lady Sings the Blues."
No one can
accuse Dee Dee Bridgewater of playing it safe. The Grammy Award-winning
vocalist fused jazz with the colorful rhythms of West Africa's Republic
of Mali on the 2007 multicultural outing "Red Earth: A Malian Journey."
The carryover from that creatively enriching experience fuels
Bridgewater's latest project: "Eleanora Fagan (1915-1959): To Billie
With Love From Dee Dee." Read complete story from Billboard.
Posted by Pete McConnell at 1/8/2010 1:46 PM 
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