Billie Holiday Eleanora Fagan (April 7, 1915 – July 17, 1959), known professionally as Billie Holiday, was an American jazz and swing music singer. Nicknamed “Lady Day” by her friend and music partner Lester Young, Holiday had an innovative influence on jazz music and pop singing. Her vocal style, strongly inspired by jazz instrumentalists, pioneered…
Month: March 2021
#FF — Blent
PHOTO PROMPT © Dale Rogerson When we first arrived, we’d learned how to blend. The mobile hairless ones appeared to be the leaders of this carbon-hydrogen-nitrogen-oxygen-sulphur-phosphorus-based planet; and they had little regard for any but their own kind, no tolerance at all for anything different, and outright hostility towards anything or anyone that challenged their…
Women Music March 2021 – Day 24 – Carole King
Carole King Carole King Klein (born Carol Joan Klein; February 9, 1942) is an American singer-songwriter who has been active since 1958, initially as one of the staff songwriters at the Brill Building and later as a solo artist. She is the most successful female songwriter of the latter half of the 20th century in…
dVerse — Poetics — Messy Space
Birthed in a squalid, roach-crawled tenement Colicked with over-watered dried milk Toddled through fresh piles of dog sh*t Schooled by old drunks and the streets Pimped by her junkie mom Beaten by her men Flew from all that Roosted to heal Feeling Free Free Feeling After search For true spirit Away from tenets Towards pre-ordained…
Movies, Movies, Movies! #77 – March 23, 2021
Welcome to another installment of Movies, Movies, Movies! The Midnight Sky (2020) (netflix) Starring: George Clooney, Felicity Jones, David Oyelowo, Caoilinn Springall, Kyle Chandler, Demian Bichir, Tiffany Boone, Sophie Rundle, Ethan Peck, Tim Russ, Miriam Shor, and many more. Director: George Clooney Genres: drama, fantasy Synopsis: Augustine (played by Clooney) stays behind when the Arctic…
Women Music March 2021 – Day 23 – Chrissie Hynde
Chrissie Hynde Christine Ellen Hynde (born September 7, 1951) is an American singer-songwriter and musician. She is a founding member and the guitarist, lead vocalist, and primary songwriter of the rock band the Pretenders, as well as its only constant member. Hynde formed the Pretenders in 1978 with Pete Farndon, James Honeyman-Scott and Martin Chambers….
“The Art of Dying,” by George Harrison — dVerse — Q124 — “The Art of Dying,” by George Harrison
When you’re born, your life (past Karma) is like a piece of stringwith knots in it and you’ve got to try, before you die, to undo all the knots: but you tie another twenty trying to get one undone.–George Harrison, from “I, Me, Mine,” pages 180-181, talking about his song, “The Art of Dying.” We…
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