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Wishing on the Moon

by Donald Clarke
Anna Fields
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No singer has been more mythologized and more misunderstood than jazz legend Billie Holiday, who helped to create much of the mystique herself with her autobiography, Lady Sings the Blues. This authentic biography sets the record straight. Donald Clarke was given unrivaled access to a treasure trove of interviews from the 1970s with those who knew Lady Day in all stages of her short, tragic life—from her childhood in the streets and good-time houses of Baltimore, through the early days of success in New York and the years of fame, to her tragic decline and death at the age of forty-four. This biography separates fact from fiction to reveal the true Billie Holiday.

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Publisher: Blackstone Publishing Edition: Unabridged

OverDrive Listen audiobook

  • ISBN: 9781483069135
  • File size: 511320 KB
  • Release date: January 16, 2012
  • Duration: 17:45:14

MP3 audiobook

  • ISBN: 9781483069135
  • File size: 511405 KB
  • Release date: January 16, 2012
  • Duration: 17:45:07
  • Number of parts: 19
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Biography & Autobiography Multi-Cultural Performing Arts Nonfiction

Languages

English

No singer has been more mythologized and more misunderstood than jazz legend Billie Holiday, who helped to create much of the mystique herself with her autobiography, Lady Sings the Blues. This authentic biography sets the record straight. Donald Clarke was given unrivaled access to a treasure trove of interviews from the 1970s with those who knew Lady Day in all stages of her short, tragic life—from her childhood in the streets and good-time houses of Baltimore, through the early days of success in New York and the years of fame, to her tragic decline and death at the age of forty-four. This biography separates fact from fiction to reveal the true Billie Holiday.

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Biography & Autobiography Multi-Cultural Performing Arts Nonfiction