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Hace 3 días · I finally kicked bingeing after reading a book called Sugar Blues by William Dufty in the early 1980s, which highlighted how awful the effects of the sugar I was eating were on my mental health. It was a eureka moment, and led me to become a diet counsellor. I haven’t binged since.
Hace 5 días · I finally kicked bingeing after reading a book called Sugar Blues by William Dufty in the early 1980s, which highlighted to me how awful the effects of the sugar I was eating were on my mental health.
6 de may. de 2024 · TF: Apart from Lady Sings the Blues, her memoir by as-told-to author William Dufty, Billie Holiday was not a self-chronicler.She didn’t keep a diary or give many interviews. The fullest record she left of her inner life and her experiences is in her music. It’s not surprising that those who are attracted to Billie Holiday would find their own desires and struggles mirrored there.
22 de may. de 2024 · Billie Holiday (born Eleanora Fagan; April 7, 1915 – July 17, 1959) was an American jazz and swing music singer. Nicknamed "Lady Day" by her friend and music partner, Lester Young, Holiday made a significant contribution to jazz music and pop singing.Her vocal style, strongly influenced by jazz instrumentalists, inspired a new way of manipulating phrasing and tempo.
10 de may. de 2024 · In 1956, Holiday published an autobiography with William Dufty called – “Lady Sings the Blues.” It was made into the 1972 film Lady Sings the Blues. Another problem is that she was spending roughly $500 per week (about $10K today) on drugs by the middle of the 1940s. Upon Billie’s death, she had $750 strapped to her leg.
3 de may. de 2024 · Also—throughout this chapter I have treated as a broadly reliable source Lady Sings the Blues, which was co-written with William Dufty. There is a debate about how reliable this memoir is, but her 1995 biographer Stuart Nicholson went through it and found that, for example, on one of the most famously contested passages, her description of her rape as a child, it was an accurate account.
Hace 5 días · Později si zahrála i ve filmovém muzikálu Čaroděj, kde po jejím boku stanul Michael Jackson. Snímek Billie zpívá blues byl natočen podle knižní předlohy Lady sings the blues z roku 1956, kterou napsal americký spisovatel William Dufty. Jeho manželka Maely Bartholomew byla ostatně velkou přítelkyní Billie Holiday.
