Caer Wydyr
A Dictionary of Celtic Mythology
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Caer Wydyr,Caer Wydr [W, fortress of glass]. A name for
Annwfn, the Welsh Otherworld. See
YNYS GUTRIN.
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Profile: CD-DVD by Billie Holiday is released
Transcript from: NPR Morning Edition; 5/31/2005; ; 700+ words
; ...Profile: CD-DVD by Billie Holiday is released Host: STEVE...that the jazz singer Billie Holiday was born...Soundbite from "Billie Holiday: The Ultimate Collection...quite a rare find, Billie Holiday being interviewed...
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``Billie Holiday: The Ultimate Collection'' Celebrates Lady Day's 90th Birthday.
Business Wire; 1/12/2005; 700+ words
; ...Performances Not Seen since 1956 as Well as Other Billie Holiday Rarities The 90th birthday of the legendary Billie Holiday will be celebrated with a first...produced "Lady Day: The Many Faces of Billie Holiday" premiered on A&E in 1992, winning...
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Billy Crystal and Neneh Cherry look back on the life of Billie Holiday, 50 years after her death, for Radio 2.
M2 Presswire; 6/23/2009; 700+ words
; ...Cherry look back on the life of Billie Holiday, 50 years after her death, for...And, as a further treat for Billie Holiday fans, there's another chance...is Music Night's Tribute To Billie Holiday (Friday 10 July), a...
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Cover Story: The Lady Vanishes Who stole Billie Holiday? She is feminist property because she was a black woman who did it her way. Her outsider-victim status made her a gay diva. And to straight, white hipsters, she's the sound of cool comfort. But, says Phil Johnson, the cultural appropriation has gone far enough. It's high time we saw her for what she was...
Newspaper article from: The Independent on Sunday; 3/28/2004; ; 700+ words
; When the jazz singer Billie Holiday died in 1959 aged 44...only brief snatches of Billie Holiday's music, perhaps for...readings by Farah Griffin, Holiday's feminist-revisionist...feminist-friendly Saint Billie as represented by first...
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BILLIE HOLIDAY: THE LADY really sang the BLUES
Newspaper article from: Philadelphia Tribune, The; 2/18/2003; ; 630 words
; ...figured it out yet, it's Billie Holiday, a.k.a. Lady Day...artist of all time. Billie Holiday, whose real...composition. Billie Holiday came and left with a...The Essence of Billie Holiday," "Love Songs...
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BILLIE HOLIDAY: The most important recordings by the greatest female vocalist of all time are gathered for the first time in 20-CD boxed set
Newspaper article from: Washington Afro-American; 10/19/2001; 632 words
; ...Afro-American 10-19-2001 BILLIE HOLIDAY: The most important recordings...20-CD boxed set "How many Billie Holidays are there and which do you prefer...52nd Street's Queen, early Billie or late, Billie of hope or heartache...
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The ladies who sing the blues; Echoes of Billie Holiday can be heard in the singing stars who dominate the charts. They are soon to pay tribute to her as a jazz legend and role-model.
Newspaper article from: The Evening Standard (London, England); 3/26/2004; 700+ words
; ...MASSARIK WHEREVER jazz is played, the name of Billie Holiday is mentioned with a special reverence. Her...important that young people know just how strong Billie Holiday was," says Cherry. "Billie was a rolemodel, an innovator and an activist...
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IMPERFECT BEAUTY RIGHT BEFORE OUR EYES AND EARS, THE IMAGES OF BILLIE HOLIDAY CHANGE A 10-DISC SET GETS DOWN TO THE SOUND OF A GENIUS IN FLOWER
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe; 10/7/2001; ; 700+ words
; ...to listen to vintage Billie Holiday, you are going to have...ought to try to listen to Billie Holiday, but not everyone...could be no question Holiday would emerge as a major...not why you listen to Billie Holiday. You listen...
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Author says Billie Holiday was not a victim, but a genius.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service; 7/5/2001; ; 700+ words
; ...Mystery: In Search of Billie Holiday" (Free Press...Griffin's fixation on Holiday deepened at Harvard...and Mellow" and "Billie's Blues." She...against lynching. Holiday was as disciplined...black women. But Billie understood music...
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Song, sex and stimulants Russell Davies considers an impressionistic attempt to capture Billie Holiday
Newspaper article from: The Sunday Telegraph London; 4/10/2005; ; 700+ words
; ...book about the singer Billie Holiday. It may have been too...Sounds of Jazz, where Billie Holiday appeared, late in life...thrown out of a party by Billie, was a weirdly effective...honourable addition to the Holiday bookstall, but jazz...
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Billie Holiday
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
Billie Holiday Billie Holiday (1915-1959) was a jazz vocalist with perhaps the most emotional depth of any singer in jazz history. Billie Holiday's life was tragic. Born into out-of-wedlock poverty...
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Holiday, Billie
Encyclopedia entry from: U*X*L Encyclopedia of World Biography
Billie Holiday Born: April 7, 1915Baltimore, MarylandDied...New York African American jazz singer Billie Holiday was an African American jazz vocalist...any singer in jazz history. Early life Billie Holiday was born Eleanora Fagan on April...
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Holiday, Billie 1915-1959
Book article from: American Decades
HOLIDAY, BILLIE 1915-1959 Jazz singer Childhood The facts of Billie Holidays early life are uncertain...old father, Clarence Holiday, ever married, but if...favorite movie star, Billie Dove, and the last name...
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Belle, Regina
Book article from: Contemporary Black Biography
...comparing her favorably to jazz great Billie Holiday. Belle's wide vocal range has...lists other musical influences as Billie Holiday, Donny Hathaway, and Nancy...When I met her she told me that Billie Holiday did it for Dinah [Washington...
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Peyroux, Madeleine
Book article from: Contemporary Musicians
...by that of classic jazz vocalist Billie Holiday, and her singing uncannily resembles...s music. "The references to Billie Holiday have carried me very far...Yet Peyroux couldn't be called a Billie Holiday imitator. She played the...
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