Strange Fruit
Billie Holiday was a famous blues and jazz singer who was instrumental in the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s. Her biggest accomplishment is being the most famous female blues singer in history.
"Strange fruit" is from a poem about lynching.
The anti-lynching song made famous by Billie Hollday is "Strange Fruit."
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Strange Fruit
Billie Holiday was a famous blues and jazz singer who was instrumental in the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s. Her biggest accomplishment is being the most famous female blues singer in history.
"Strange fruit" is from a poem about lynching.
Strange Fruit Records was created in 1986.
Strange Fruit Records ended in 2004.
Strange Fruit - film - was created in 2004.
Strange Fruits was created in 1998.
The duration of Strange Fruit - film - is 1.92 hours.
The poem "Strange Fruit" was written in the late 1930s by Abel Meeropol, a Jewish schoolteacher from the Bronx who was moved by a photograph of a lynching. It was later made famous as a song performed by Billie Holiday in 1939.
The anti-lynching song made famous by Billie Hollday is "Strange Fruit."
The cast of Strange Fruit - 1989 includes: Ted Black