digital ink illustration of a wistful billie holiday, head in hands & eyes looking to her left. a speech bubble near her left temple reads 'a strange & bitter crop'. colours are chestnut, burgundy, pale pink & tomato red.

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   #art #history: in 1939, billie holiday - born eleanora fagan on this day in 1915 - threw a punch with the release of her recording of 'strange fruit' - &, if she'd not persisted, it may not have been released until much later. columbia refused, at first (‘they won’t buy it in the south’), to let billie include it even though it had been a central & permanent pillar of her repertoire during her tenure at cafe society.
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