This 1955 audio recording of Billie Holiday provides an intimate earful into the world of one of the greatest jazz singers of all time. Showing the strains of years of drug abuse and heartbrake, Holiday's voice is clearly diminished but it's still nonetheless striking in its distinctiveness and tone.
In just four years after this was recorded, Holiday sadly passed away at the Metropolitan Hospital in New York (her hospital room under police guard after she was charged with drug possession).
Along with archival footage and photographs, this snippet captures beautifully the world of Lady Day.
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