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Opinion: We Lost Who Billie Holiday Might Have Been If She Wasn’t Busy Fighting Racism

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The United States Vs. Billie Holiday follows the jazz icon’s persecution by the U.S. government for speaking out against lynchings.

The force behind civil rights’ anthem “Strange Fruit,” Holiday chose to sing the jarring song about their brutality despite being warned that doing so would place her career and freedom in jeopardy.

The Blues singer is portrayed in the Lee Daniels’ film by a dazzling Andra Day. The project takes the viewer through a number of Holiday’s traumatic experiences, her body tousled about throughout the two-hour picture.

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‘Billie Holiday’ tops AARP Movies for Grownups Awards

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Andra Day was “pissed off” at crew for applauding her Billie Holiday performance

The United States vs. Billie Holiday who applauded her singing performance.The singer and actress told NME in a new interview that ‘Strange Fruit’, the protest song that her character, jazz legend Billie Holiday, was targeted for by the US government in the 1940s, is “ugly” and thus should not be romanticised as something “beautiful”.Day said that after she delivered a live rendition for a concert scene in the film, she had various crew clap applaud and remark on her “beautiful performance”, which she found grating.“I didn’t want people to enjoy the song when I was singing it on set,” Day explained to NME.