DIANA ROSS LIVE - STRANGE FRUIT - LADY BILLIE HOLIDAY TRIBUTE

INDUCTION CEREMONY 2000

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Music

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• DIANA
• ROSS

[TheStormLive]

Black Women Are Not Bitches and she did not bleach her skin. She is one the greatest female singers of our time. Don't hate but love her greatness. It was an amazing performance. Please understand that slavery was a horrific, dehumanizing, and cruel institution. Thus, we (all human beings) should never forget how it had affected Black Americans. One love :)

[AIKAN74]

@TheStormLive amen!!!!!!

[islezeus]

@TheStormLive nice and heartfelt message... but this song was not about slavery

[AIKAN74]

@islezeus no its not about slavery.but its about one of the many and one of the most horrid practices to arise out of slavery!!!!!!

[trumusicgen]

I love Diana Ross's rendition of Billy Holiday song, so much better too.

I didn't like how Billy Holiday sang

[AIKAN74]

i guess you really have to be into jazz...............maybe even billie before drugs took her voice.kinda like whitney now................but ella fitzgerald said that billie was the queen!

[BernadetteIsAwesome]

She is a great singer, but she doesn't have soul like Billie.

[MrPistolMason]

@3FromTheOutside I second that: BROVO!!!!

[3FromTheOutside]

Now that's some seriously skilled singing! Bravo!!!

[babbfamilyidaho]

@PsychoxXxTeddyxXx13 Billie Holiday did not write strange fruit. A northern Jewish man, Abel Meeropol, who saw a photograph of a lynching in the south and wrote this poem, originally by the name of "Bitter Fruit". Billie Holiday agreed to sing the song. I might add she was very brave to perform this when she did and her influence and artistic abilities are what truly brought this song and these lyrics into the public sphere.

[SpazChat]

@SnipNJ , Diana is a consummate professional. No surprise there. She became a star at a time when people had to actually be able to sing. There was no AutoTune back then

[draginbonez]

@PsychoxXxTeddyxXx13 this song was accually a poem writtin by a teacher in like the 30's .

[PsychoxXxTeddyxXx13]

@islezeus it was about a black boy that she saw hanging on a tree while she was on tour.

[kplife2001]

@SpazChat It does not make me wonder. It is hard to describe, but in times like those the faith of the people only grew stronger because it was really all that they had.

[SpazChat]

@AIKAN74 , Makes me wonder how people believe there is a God, when for so many years and even today some innocent people go through that kind of horrific suffering.

[tulaplexi]

@LANORDA9 THANK YOU. Amen.

[4050322]

Amazing Performance!