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...While growing up she immersed herself in the work of Sarah Vaughan, Dinah Washington and Billie Holiday. From them she learnt to hone her exceptional gift for phrasing....
...Malik Djoudi, formerly of underground bands Moon Pallas and Kim Tim, contributes a lush version of Frank Ocean’s “Super Rich Kids”, with thumping marimba echoing Elton John’s influence on the original and...
...This year visitors will flock to Óbuda Island on the Danube to see Billie Eilish, David Guetta, Mumford & Sons and Lorde, among others....
...Billie Milam Weisman could be seen as the keeper of the flame....
...She ends with a close-up rendition of Billie Holiday’s “I’ll Be Seeing You”, sung as though into the shell of the listener’s ear....
...Loaded up with recordings from artists from Glenn Gould to Billie Eilish, the company said, the Spirio significantly expands its market to include non-piano players....
...A few miles west of the centre of Oxford, Knight Frank is offering a five-bedroom family home built with hemp concrete, panels and bricks (and timber) for £1.6mn....
...When Billie Holiday sang it, you knew her man had packed his bags and was never coming back. That’s how one interviewee describes the poignancy of Holiday’s vocal technique....
...“The Art of Bob Mackie by Frank Vlastnik and Laura Ross”, Simon & Schuster, £35 Find out about our latest stories first — follow @financialtimesfashion on Instagram...
...Billie Piper’s glass-box rendition of the title character in Simon Stone’s 2016 production of Yerma was one of the most thrilling theatrical performances I’ve ever witnessed....
...Long known for his strikingly imaginative cover versions, James Blake earlier this year released a version of Frank Ocean’s “Godspeed” which struck a chord with millions of downloaders and streamers....
...In 2017 the game’s creators handed curation over to artists, asking Frank Ocean to create a radio station for GTA V....
...They sit somewhere between Donald Judd’s boxes and Peter Eisenman’s Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe with a ferric aftertaste of Billie Holiday’s “Strange Fruit”....
...This year’s cancelled Coachella festival was due to have been headlined by an LGBTQ performer, Frank Ocean....
...snuffed out in a plane crash; Edie, an English school librarian who, bizarrely, owes her existence to Edith Piaf; “Too Junior” Jones, a journalist who hauls herself out of writing about hemlines via a frank...
...Part I: young producers Teenagers have been the driving force behind the growth of pop music, ever since the “Sinatramania” that Frank Sinatra inspired in the early 1940s....
...Matt Darriau switched effortlessly from clarinet to saxophone to kaval; Frank London’s trumpet bleated like a shofar....
...Given the frank and open discussions of male abuse yielded by #MeToo, says Longworth, “it’s time to rethink stories that lionise playboys, that celebrate the idea that women of the 20th century were lands...
...Why The property is within a 15-minute drive of the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center, where the US Open is held every year....
...“It’s Tony Stark, it’s Iron Man,” test pilot Billie Flynn tells me. The $400,000 headgear renders a pilot more machine than man....
...Otherwise, Mattel could eventually end up in the clutches of Betsy, the distressed debt investor, or Billie, the fearsome Chapter 11 lawyer....
...And yet, for some years before this, jazz singers such as Billie Holiday (co-writer of “God Bless the Child”) were singing their hearts out in very personal terms....
...Jones’s recording career ranges from Ray Charles and Frank Sinatra to Miles Davis and Michael Jackson, while his film scores roam far and wide....
...(A small musical sidestep finds soul singer Diana Ross playing Billie Holiday in the 1972 biopic Lady Sings The Blues.)...
...Outside the Young Vic Theatre in London there are huge posters of Billie Piper....
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