Billie Holiday - Some Other Spring

Classic Jazz, Billie Holiday born in 1915 as Eleanora Fagane was an American jazz singer and songwriter. Nicknamed Lady Day, Billie was a seminal influence on jazz and pop singing. Her vocal style, strongly inspired by jazz instrumentalists, pioneered a new way of manipulating phrasing and tempo. Above all, she was admired for her deeply personal and intimate approach to singing. She co-wrote only a few songs, but several of them have become jazz standards, notably "God Bless the Child ...
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