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The Nina Simone Web |
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One song, I Loves You, Porgy, from the opera "Porgy and Bess",
became a hit and the nightclub singer became a star, performing at Town Hall, Carnegie Hall and the Newport Jazz Festival... |
I loves you Porgy
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THERE CAN hardly be another 90 words which as powerfully capture the obscenity of racism in the US as the lyrics of "Strange Fruit". The great black singer Billie Holiday made the anti-lynching song famous 60 years ago. |
A Song That Reverberates in the American Soul
about the origins and history of this poem
The Unofficial BILLIE HOLIDAY Website
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Strange FruitSouthern trees bear strange fruit,
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