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Billie Holiday s story depends on who s telling it

Billie Holiday s story depends on who s telling it Audra McDonald as Billie Holiday in Lady Day at Emerson s Bar and Grill,” at Circle in the Square in New York, March 24, 2014. There are almost as many interpretations of her short life and enormous legacy as there are books and films about her, including the new biopic starring Andra Day. Sara Krulwich/The New York Times. by Robert Ito (NYT NEWS SERVICE) .- For Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Suzan-Lori Parks, the story of Billie Holiday, the legendary jazz singer, came to her in dribs and drabs. When Parks was growing up, she said, “our parents would tell us, ‘She had a tragic story.’ And then, as we got a little older, ‘She used drugs.’ And then as we got a little older, my mom would start saying things like, you know, they got to her. But she didn’t really get into it.”

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