Previous posts for April 7th may be found here: Charles Burney (2019) and Percy Faith (2020).
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Billie Holiday (7 April 1915 – 17 July 1959) was an enormously influential American jazz and swing singer.
Elegy
There is nothing droll to say
About the life of Lady Day.
There is nothing in her story.
In the humor category.
Alcohol and drug addiction,
Professional and private friction,
And the bitter extra flak
Of navigating life while Black.
A fresh gardenia in her hair
In spite of personal despair.
Finally dying, sick and shattered,
With a voice that life had tattered.
Jazz was shaken to its core
When she died at 44.
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