Rolling Stone M. Ward on Why Billie Holiday Endures “There was something broken in her voice,” says Ward, whose new album, released amid a Holiday renaissance, reinterprets songs associated with the legendary jazz singer By Holly Andres; Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images That haunted voice we keep hearing these days belongs to Billie Holiday. More than six decades after her death, the legendary singer is experiencing a moment in the culture: She’s the subject of a recent documentary (director James Erskine’s Billie) and a soon-to-be released biopic (director Lee Daniels’ The United States vs. Billie Holiday, starring Andra Day, out later this month), and “Strange Fruit,” the anti-lynching protest song that she popularized in the late Thirties, has been remade, sampled, and revived. One of her songs even popped up in HBO’s