Classic Blues & Jazz – Strange Fruit – Billie Holiday

The great Billie Holiday singing the classic Strange Fruit, one of the first great protest songs and certainly one of the earliest examples of a black singer performing on a regular basis a poweful anti-racism song.

It is perhaps pertinent to remember that the song was written by an American Jew in the 1930′s and whilst about US racism was extremely apposite as regards what was happening in Europe at that time.

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