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Lady Sings the Blues
Billie Holiday · 1956 · Track 8
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Duración3:07
ÁlbumLady Sings the Blues
Año1956
ISRCUSPR35602455
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The story behind
The song *Trav'lin Light* is a piece from the soundtrack of the film *Lady Sings the Blues*, a biographical drama that premiered in 1972. The film narrates the life of the legendary jazz singer Billie Holiday, from her beginnings cleaning in a Harlem brothel to becoming a star, also going through her struggle with heroin addiction and the loss of a loved one. The duration of this musical piece is 3 minutes and 4 seconds.
The figure of Billie Holiday, born Eleanora Fagan Gough in Philadelphia in 1915, is central to the history of jazz. Also known as Lady Day, her path to music was not easy. Raised in Baltimore by very young parents, her father, guitarist Clarence Holiday, abandoned her when she was very young. Her childhood was marked by instability and difficulties, leading her to work in brothels at twelve years old and falling into prostitution in New York at fourteen. Her musical career took off around 1930, when, looking for money to avoid eviction, she entered a Harlem bar. After a failed attempt as a dancer, she surprised everyone by singing, thus securing her first steady job. Her musical training was self-taught, learning by listening to artists like Bessie Smith and Louis Armstrong.