List of awards and nominations received by Billie Holiday
Grammy
Hall of Fame
Singer Billie Holiday was posthumously inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame, which is a special Grammy award established in 1973 to honor recordings that are at least 25 years old and that have "qualitative or historical significance."[1]
Year Recorded | Title | Genre | Label | Year inducted | Notes |
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1941 | "(In My) Solitude" | Jazz (single) | Okeh (Columbia) | 2021 | This induction ties Billie Holiday with Ella Fitzgerald for having the most entries in the Grammy Hall of Fame by a female artist[2] |
1937 | "My Man" | Jazz (single) | Brunswick (Columbia) | 2018 | |
1956 | Lady Sings the Blues | Jazz (album) | Clef (Verve) | 2016 | |
1949 | "Crazy He Calls Me" | Jazz (single) | Decca | 2010 | |
1944 | "Embraceable You" | Jazz (single) | Commodore | 2005 | |
1958 | Lady in Satin | Jazz (album) | Columbia | 2000 | |
1945 | "Lover Man (Oh, Where Can You Be?)" | Jazz (single) | Decca | 1989 | |
1939 | "Strange Fruit" | Jazz (single) | Commodore | 1978 | Listed also in the National Recording Registry by the Library of Congress in 2002 |
1941 | "God Bless the Child" | Jazz (single) | Okeh (Columbia) | 1976 |
Best Album Album
The Grammy Award for Best Historical Album has been presented since 1979.
Year | Title | Label | Result |
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2002 | Lady Day: The Complete Billie Holiday | Columbia 1933–1944 | Winner |
1994 | The Complete Billie Holiday | Verve 1945–1959 | Winner |
1992 | Billie Holiday — The Complete Decca Recordings | Verve 1944–1950 | Winner |
1980 | Billie Holiday — Giants of Jazz | Time-Life | Winner |
Other honors
Year | Award | Honors | Notes |
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2004 | Ertegun Jazz Hall of Fame[3] | Inducted | Jazz at Lincoln Center, New York |
2000 | Rock and Roll Hall of Fame | Inducted | Category: "Early Influence" |
1997 | ASCAP Jazz Wall of Fame[4] | Inducted | |
1947 | Esquire Magazine Gold Award | Best Leading Female Vocalist | Jazz award |
1946 | Esquire Magazine Silver Award | Best Leading Female Vocalist | Jazz award |
1945 | Esquire Magazine Silver Award | Best Leading Female Vocalist | Jazz award |
1944 | Esquire Magazine Gold Award | Best Leading Female Vocalist | Jazz award |
Tributes
- 1972, Diana Ross portrayed Holiday in the film Lady Sings the Blues, which is loosely based on the 1956 autobiography of the same name. The film earned Ross a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actress.
- Singer Miki Howard released the Holiday tribute album, Miki Sings Billie: A Tribute to Billie Holiday in 1993. Miki Howard also portrayed Lady Day in a club scene in the 1992 motion picture " Malcolm X " starring Denzel Washington.
- Paula Jai Parker portrayed Holiday in a Season 7 episode of the TV series Touched by an Angel, entitled "God Bless the Child," the title derived from a song which Holiday had written and performed.[5]
- Jazz pianist Mal Waldron performed as Holiday's accompanist and released several tribute albums including:
- Left Alone (Bethlehem, 1959)
- Blues for Lady Day (Black Lion, 1972)
- Left Alone '86 with Jackie McLean (Paddle Wheel, 1986)
- No More Tears (For Lady Day) (Timeless, 1989)
- Billie Hollidy, Croatian National Theatre in Split by A.Ostojić & Ksenia Prohaska (2006)[6]
- Argentinean comic artists Carlos Sampayo and José Antonio Muñoz made a graphic novel on her life, titled Billie Holiday (Fantagraphics Books, 1991; Spanish edition: Ojo de Pez, Buenos Aires, 2007).
- Holiday is the primary character in the play and later the film Lady Day at Emerson's Bar and Grill; the role was originated by Reenie Upchurch in 1986 and was played by Audra McDonald on Broadway (she received a Tony Award for her performance) and in the film.
Honors
- 1987, Billie Holiday was posthumously awarded the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award.
- 1993, R&B singer Miki Howard released an album dedicated to Holiday titled Miki Sings Billie.
- 1994, the United States Postal Service introduced a Billie Holiday postage stamp.
- 1999, Holiday ranked No. 6 on VH1's 100 Greatest Women in Rock n' Roll.
- 2000, she was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
- 2011, she was inducted into the National Women's Hall of Fame.[7]
Over the years, there have been many tributes to Billie Holiday, including "The Day Lady Died", a 1959 poem by Frank O'Hara, and Langston Hughes' poem "Song for Billie Holiday".
- In 1970 Frank Sinatra recorded the song Lady Day as a tribute.[8]
- In 1988 the group U2 released "Angel of Harlem" in her honor.
- "My Only Friend" by The Magnetic Fields is a tribute to Billie Holiday.
- Arthur Phillips features Holiday's 1953 concert in New York in his novel The Song is You (2009).
References
- ^ "GRAMMY Hall Of Fame". GRAMMY.org. Archived from the original on 2011-01-22. Retrieved 2015-05-07.
- ^ "GRAMMY Hall Of Fame". GRAMMY.org. Retrieved 2021-02-16.
- ^ "Webcast Schedule". Jazzatlincolncentrer.org. Archived from the original on 2011-06-14. Retrieved 2015-05-07.
- ^ [1] Archived July 7, 2011, at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Touched by an Angel: God Bless the Child Episode Summary on Archived 2009-06-16 at the Wayback Machine. Tv.com (2008-06-25). Retrieved on 2010-11-13.
- ^ "Anton Arsen Ostojić / Ksenija Prohaska: LADY SINGS THE BLUES / HNK Split, 11. 02. 2006". Arhiva.hnk-split.hr. Retrieved 2012-04-07.
- ^ "Holiday, Billie". National Women’s Hall of Fame. Retrieved 2021-05-14.
- ^ "Biography". Fasinatra.com. Retrieved 2015-05-07.
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- Billie Holiday Sings/Solitude
- An Evening with Billie Holiday
- Billie Holiday
- Billie Holiday at Jazz at the Philharmonic
- Stay with Me
- Music for Torching
- Velvet Mood
- Lady Sings the Blues
- Body and Soul
- Songs for Distingué Lovers
- Ella Fitzgerald and Billie Holiday at Newport
- All or Nothing at All
- Lady in Satin
- Last Recording
- The Essential Billie Holiday: Carnegie Hall Concert Recorded Live
- Lady in Autumn: The Best of the Verve Years
- Lady Day: The Complete Billie Holiday on Columbia 1933–1944
- Lady Day Swings
- Remixed and Reimagined
- "Ain't Nobody's Business"
- "As Time Goes By"
- "Billie's Blues"
- "Blue Moon"
- "Body and Soul"
- "Do You Know What It Means to Miss New Orleans?"
- "Don't Explain"
- "Easy Living"
- "Embraceable You"
- "Everything Happens for the Best"
- "Everything Happens to Me"
- "Fine and Mellow"
- "Gloomy Sunday"
- "God Bless the Child"
- "Good Morning Heartache"
- "I Cover the Waterfront"
- "I Loves You, Porgy"
- "If You Were Mine"
- "I Thought About You"
- "I'll Be Seeing You"
- "I'll Get By"
- "I'll Never Be the Same"
- "I've Got My Love to Keep Me Warm"
- "Just One of Those Things"
- "Lady Sings the Blues"
- "Left Alone"
- "Love for Sale"
- "Lover Man (Oh, Where Can You Be?)"
- "Me, Myself, and I"
- "Miss Brown to You"
- "My Man"
- "Moonlight in Vermont"
- "Night and Day"
- "No More"
- "Now or Never"
- "Our Love Is Different"
- "P.S. I Love You"
- "Pennies from Heaven"
- "Please Don't Do It Here"
- "Preacher Boy"
- "Sophisticated Lady"
- "Stormy Blues"
- "Stormy Weather"
- "Strange Fruit"
- "Sugar"
- "Summertime"
- "That Ole Devil Called Love"
- "These Foolish Things (Remind Me of You)"
- "Too Marvelous for Words"
- "Trav'lin' Light"
- "What a Little Moonlight Can Do"
- "What Is This Thing Called Love?"
- "Why Was I Born?"
- "Willow Weep for Me"
- "You Go to My Head"
- "Your Mother's Son-In-Law"
- "Angel of Harlem"
- Lady Sings the Blues
- book
- film
- soundtrack
- Lady Day at Emerson's Bar and Grill
- Statue
- The United States vs. Billie Holiday
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