Diva is an album by American jazz and swing music singer Billie Holiday, released on 20 May 2003 by Verve Records. In 1939, Holiday recorded her biggest selling record, "Strange Fruit" for Commodore, charting at number 16 on the available pop charts for the 1930s. While the twelfth track on the album "God Bless the Child", went [+]
Diva is an album by American jazz and swing music singer Billie Holiday, released on 20 May 2003 by Verve Records. In 1939, Holiday recorded her biggest selling record, "Strange Fruit" for Commodore, charting at number 16 on the available pop charts for the 1930s. While the twelfth track on the album "God Bless the Child", went on to sell over a million copies and ranked number 3 on Billboard's year-end top songs of 1941. Her last major recording, a 1958 album entitled Lady in Satin, features the backing of a 40-piece orchestra conducted and arranged by Ray Ellis. [...]
