◇ image via WikipediaBillie Holiday
Billie Holiday is a Blues and Jazz act. Their sound grew out of Louis Armstrong, Bessie Smith, Mary Lou Williams, Melody Gardot and Paul Whiteman. Those roots explain a lot about how Billie Holiday arrange songs and choose their tones. They run in the same orbit as Sarah Vaughan, Dinah Washington, Peggy Lee, Etta James and Bessie Smith, sharing audiences, venues and reference points rather than a straight line of influence. Their influence carried into Bridgit Mendler, Amy Winehouse, Barbra Streisand, Frank Sinatra and Hurray For The Riff Raff, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 159 connections around Billie Holiday, reaching back through Louis Armstrong and forward to Bridgit Mendler. Follow any of those threads to keep travelling the influence between bands and genres on Starverb.
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Billie Holiday connections
Billie Holiday grew out of Louis Armstrong, Bessie Smith, Mary Lou Williams and Melody Gardot, shares an orbit with Sarah Vaughan, Dinah Washington, Peggy Lee and Etta James, went on to shape Bridgit Mendler, Amy Winehouse, Barbra Streisand and Frank Sinatra. 159 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.
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