Billie Holiday - Hardcover

Munoz, Jose; Sampayo, Carlos

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1681120933 ISBN 13: 9781681120935

Publisher: NBM Publishing Company, 2017

Synopsis

A spellbinding artbook tribute to and biography of the iconic singer, Billie Holiday

Born in Baltimore in 1915, and dead too early in New York in 1959, Billie Holiday became a legendary jazz singer, mythical even. With her voice even now managing to touch so many people, we follow a reporter on the trail of the artist on behalf of a New York daily. Beyond the public scandals that marred the life of the star (alcohol, drugs, violence...), he seeks to restore the truth, revisiting the memory of Billie.

Through this investigation, Munoz and Sampayo trace, through the undertones of racism, and in the wake of the blues, the slow drift of a singer who expressed the deepest emotions in jazz.

By internationally renowned Argentine artists, featuring Munoz' strikingly raw heavy blacks, this is not just a biography but a spell-binding art book tribute.

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Born in Baltimore in 1915, and dead too early in New York in 1959, Billie Holiday became a legendary jazz singer, even mythical. With her voice even now managing to touch so many people, we follow a reporter on the trail of the artist on behalf of a New York daily. Beyond the public scandals that marred the life of the star (alcohol, drugs, violence...), he seeks to restore the truth, revisiting the memory of Billie. Through this investigation, Muñoz and Sampayo trace, through the undertones of racism, and in the wake of the blues, the slow drift of a singer who expressed the deepest emotions in jazz, creating not just a biography but a spell-binding art book tribute.

Review

"From the plaintive "Lover Man" to the antilynching "Strange Fruit," jazz singer Billie Holiday lived the songs she sang-and worse. Her acclaimed talent persisted through violence and exploitation from her menfolk plus drinking, drugging, and discrimination. This biography offers glaring flashes of Holiday's songs and life more than the details, with Munoz's high-contrast, black-and-white panels immersing audiences in an overwhelming strung-out reality. Mature readers." --Library Journal

"From the plaintive 'Lover Man' to the anti-lynching 'Strange Fruit, ' jazz singer Billie Holiday lived the songs she sang--and worse. Her acclaimed talent persisted through violence and exploitation from her menfolk plus drinking, drugging, and discrimination. This biography offers glaring flashes of Holiday's songs and life more than the details, with Munoz's high-contrast, black-and-white panels immersing audiences in an overwhelming strung-out reality. Mature readers." --Library Journal

About this edition

• Publisher: NBM Publishing Company
• Publication date: 2017
• ISBN 10: 1681120933
• ISBN 13: 9781681120935
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 80