The Tragic Story Behind Billie Holiday's "Strange Fruit" - Biography
Aug 25, 2020 · To great controversy, Lady Day introduced the world to the racially charged protest song "Strange Fruit." In the end, some believe it killed her. In March 1939, a 23-year-old Billie Holiday...
Strange Fruit - Wikipedia
"Strange Fruit" is a song written and composed by Abel Meeropol (under his pseudonym Lewis Allan) and recorded by Billie Holiday in 1939. The lyrics were drawn from a poem by Meeropol published in 1937.
Billie Holiday – Strange Fruit Lyrics - Genius
Strange Fruit Lyrics: Southern trees bear a strange fruit / Blood on the leaves and blood at the root / Black bodies swinging in the Southern breeze / Strange fruit hanging from the...
The story behind Billie Holiday’s ‘Strange Fruit’ - PBS
Apr 12, 2021 · "Strange Fruit" was a controversial protest anthem sung by Billie Holiday in the 1930s which got her targeted by the U.S. government.
How Billie Holiday’s ‘Strange Fruit’ Confronted an Ugly ... - HISTORY
Mar 1, 2021 · “Black bodies swinging in the Southern breeze,” blues legend Billie Holiday sang in her powerful 1939 recording of the song, “Strange fruit hanging from the poplar trees.”
Strange Fruit - The Official Website of Billie Holiday
“Strange Fruit” is a song performed most famously by Billie Holiday, who first sang and recorded it in 1939. Written by a white, Jewish high school teacher from the Bronx and a member of the Communist Party, Abel Meeropol wrote it as a protest poem, exposing American racism, particularly the lynching of African Americans.
Billie Holiday’s “Strange Fruit”: The Haunting Story Behind
Billie Holiday’s “Strange Fruit” is not just a song—it’s a chilling piece of American history set to music. When the jazz icon first performed this haunting ballad in 1939, audiences ...
Billie Holiday's 'Strange Fruit': Why it's so controversial, cathartic
Feb 27, 2021 · Written by Jewish schoolteacher Abel Meeropol, the song was a mournful dirge for Black victims of lynchings in the Jim Crow-era South, vividly likening their bodies to fruit "hanging...
How Billie Holiday's "Strange Fruit" Shocked Listeners With Its …
Most famously recorded by jazz icon Billie Holiday in 1939, "Strange Fruit" is a song of rage and sadness spurred by the lack of humanity afforded to Black people...
Billie Holiday’s ‘Strange Fruit’: The World’s First Protest Song
Oct 10, 2022 · Strange Fruit is a mournful dirge protesting the lynching of black Americans in the Jim Crow-era South – more than 4,000 African Americans were brutally lynched in the US between 1877 and 1950. The song’s lyrics compare the bodies of lynching victims to fruit ‘hanging from the poplar trees’.