00:01The world's greatest jazz vocalist, Miss Billie Holiday.
00:06Hey there, baby, make up your mind.
00:09Cause I've been waiting such a long, long time.
00:20Everybody professed to know her.
00:22They knew nothing about her.
00:30Must be a pretty interesting story. She had a wild life.
00:41No innovator was like her, nobody.
00:43Beautiful soul that she could only express by singing.
00:46Encore at encore.
00:48Without even trying, she was the great lady of all time.
00:51Why so many jazz greats seem to die so early?
00:56The only way I can answer that question is,
00:58We try to live 100 days in one day.
01:05She was an extremist.
01:07What's made it the way she is?
01:09Everybody wanted something out of her.
01:11No vocalist had ever went through what she went through.
01:16Strange fruit.
01:17It was a shocking piece of material.
01:18These are rioters she sang at New York.
01:22Exposing discrimination.
01:23Exposing discrimination.
01:24She put it on stage.
01:28She just told her own story, just by being herself.
01:32She would make me say that was unprecedented.
01:34I love you.
01:34Well, she wanted to do the same.
01:38Here is a strange
01:43And bitter
01:48Cry
01:49Many times she used to kill her.
01:52Last year he used to kill her.
01:54You all have to take a while.
01:55And it's done with a lawyer.
01:56We fought and nothing.
01:57By the last time,
01:57We fought and the first time we fought.
01:57We fought and the final two years.
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