How did Billie Holiday contribute to the Harlem Renaissance movement?

Answer 1

Billie Holiday contributed to The Harlem Renaissance because....Billie Holiday became highly regarded in the jazz world for her soulful delivery of ballads. She had a unique sound (which is usually welcome with jazzfolks) She was a sad case though, a drug addict and unlucky in love. If you listen to God Bless The Child That's Got Its Own, you will hear one of her signature tunes

In her day white people went up to Harlem to the nightspots regularly. Cab Calloway and the Cotton Club, etc. Racial tension during the civil rights era ended this. Ella Fitzgerald rose to fame during this period.

I knew Buddy Tate (Count Basie's lead tenor sax player.) Buddy lived with Billie H. for a year but gave up on her.