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Billie Holiday
By Carlos Sampayo and Jose Muñoz
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Born in Philadelphua in 1915, and dead too early in New York in 1959, Billie Holiday became a legendary jazz singer, even mythical. With her voice even now managing to touch so many people, we follow a reporter on the trail of the artist on behalf of a New York daily. Beyond the public scandals that marred the life of the star (alcohol, drugs, violence...), he seeks to restore the truth, revisiting the memory of Billie. Through this investigation, Muoz and Sampayo trace, through the undertones of racism, and in the wake of the blues, the slow drift of a singer who expressed the deepest emotions in jazz. By internationally renowned Argentine artists, featuring Muoz' strikingly raw heavy blacks, this is not just a biography but a spell-binding art book tribute.
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- Rating: 1 out of 5 stars1/5Didn't learn much about Billie Holiday from this disjointed, confusing and very short book. The authors seem to have made a decision to depict Holiday as ugly: the majority of the disconnected episodes are about drug arrests and Holiday is drawn as a different kind of ugly in every picture. You would never know how beautiful the woman and her voice were from this sloppy mess of a book.
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