Dee Dee Bridgewater pays tribute to Billie Holiday in Frncfort

3 hours 16 mins ago Frncfort (Germany), April 27 (EFE) .- The American jazz singer Dee Dee Bridgewater tonight gave a heartfelt tribute to Billie Holiday in the Alte Oper Frncfort with a repertoire of songs who traveled with the singer's life in Baltimore (USA). Continue reading the printed article with a forceful voice that barely resembles the dark and husky voice of Billie Holiday, Bridgewater recreate one of the most emblematic figures of jazz with a concert to present the album "To Billie with Love from Dee Dee "to edit the 50th anniversary of the death of Holiday. Bridgewater (Memphis May 27, 1950) was accompanied at the Alte Oper by saxophonist Craig Handy, drummer Greg Hutchinson , bassist and pianist Stefan Lievestro Gmez Edsel. abounded Guíos of humor to the musicians and to the public, sometimes with erotic connotations. The singer appeared at the Alte Oper Frncfort completely shaved head and a flowing chiffon dress and color overlays. The concert commemorates some of the more known songs of Billie Holiday, born Eleanora Fagan in Baltimore in 1915, and other less famous of which t Title in line with some of their memories CHAPTER first-person "Lady sings the blues." Dee Dee Bridgewater to the public convinced of the Alte Oper Frncfort to dance and sing with her to get that rise from their seats to applaud one acting the parts of two hours. This requested the public that the disposicin of nimo forget the bulb itself and move and expressed more in keeping with the jazz. In his memoirs Billie Holiday, whom the saxophonist Lester Young named it Lady Day, tells a hard life and painful without camouflage or ornaments, a suffering that creeps into his voice when singing dark spera. "Mam and dad cross country were a couple when they married. l tena 18 years, she was 16 and I three, "thus Billie Holiday begins to recount their memories. Therefore, it is surprising the homage of Dee Dee Bridgewater , whose strength Frncfort burst into a whirlwind to win a public that singing, dancing and joking with her constantly. And all this energetic despite Bridgewater was wrong because it was cold and prefer to be in bed, according said. Just under two months Also said in an interview with "Die Welt" that were in a deep depression, which are not noted in his speech last night. Dee Dee Bridgewater, who won a Grammy in 1997 with her tribute to Ella Fitzgerald, beginning with "Lady sings the blues" and "Lover Man," ah pas to "Do not explain", a Billie Holiday song you wrote on the occasion of deceiving or her husband Jimmy Monroe, who tries to give explanations when she discovered a lipstick stain on his shirt and she said, "" Take a bath, to, do not give explanations. "Keep "God Bless the Child" (that's Got His Own) (God bless the child who keeps his own), which Billie Holiday contest his mother once refused to lend you money and which became a song with which he tried to remove the bitterness of the fight. "God Bless the Child" is Also the Title by the last CHAPTER of the memoirs of Billie Holiday in which he recounts its final stay in the c jail of Philadelphia, about three years before he died of cirrhosis in 1959 at Metropolitan Hospital New York, where Also being detained for illegal possession of drugs.