Lady sings the blues

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Released: 12 October 1972 Produced by Brad Dexter, Berry Gordy, Jay Weston, James S. White Screenplay by Suzanne de Passe, Chris Clark, Terence McCloy Starring Diana Ross as Billie Holiday, Billie …

Take legendary Motown diva Diana Ross and let her portray legendary jazz diva Billie Holiday, and well, of course, you’ll get an iconic ‘behind the music’ style biopic that is Lad…

Diana Ross (Lead vocalist of the DooWop vocal group The Supremes; Later released a highly successful pop career. Named "Female Entertainer of the Century" by Billboard Magazine & according to Book of World Records, the most successful female artist to date. With the Supremes, inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 1988. As a solo artist, winner of a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award, the Kennedy Center Honors, a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, a Golden Globe, & an Academy Award)

'A masterpiece, as fresh and shocking as if it were written yesterday' Craig Brown "I've been told that no one sings the word 'hunger' like I do. Or the word 'love'." Lady Sings the Blues is the inimitable autobiography of one of the greatest icons of the twentieth century. Born to a single mother in 1915 Baltimore, Billie Holiday had her first run-in with the law at aged 13. But Billie Holiday is no victim. Her memoir tells the story of her life spent in jazz, smoky Harlem clubs and…

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Lounge singer

Diana Ross "Lady Sings the Blues".