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Strange Fruit (littéralement « fruit étrange ») est une chanson interprétée par la chanteuse américaine Billie Holiday pour la première fois en 1939, au Café Society de New York.
Monument de la chanson américaine, « Strange Fruit » marque un tournant dans la carrière de Billie Holiday. Un hymne antiraciste bouleversant.
29 juin 2020 · En 1939, Billie Holiday joue pour la première fois “Strange Fruit” au Café Society de New York. À 24 ans, la chanteuse de jazz est déjà reconnue, mais ce titre est un ovni musical. Des exécutions sommaires pour terroriser les Noirs.
" Strange Fruit " is a song written and composed by Abel Meeropol (under his pseudonym Lewis Allan) and recorded by Billie Holiday in 1939. The lyrics were drawn from a poem by Meeropol published in 1937. The song protests the lynching of Black Americans with lyrics that compare the victims to the fruit of trees.
Strange Fruit Lyrics: Southern trees bear a strange fruit / Blood on the leaves and blood at the root / Black bodies swinging in the Southern breeze / Strange fruit hanging from the...
Strange Fruit. Fruit Etrange *. Southern trees bear strange fruit. Les arbres du Sud portent un fruit étrange. Blood on the leaves and blood on the root. Du sang sur leurs feuilles et du sang sur leurs racines. Black bodies swinging in the southern breeze.
“Strange Fruit” is a song performed most famously by Billie Holiday, who first sang and recorded it in 1939. Written by a white, Jewish high school teacher from the Bronx and a member of the Communist Party, Abel Meeropol wrote it as a protest poem, exposing American racism, particularly the lynching of African Americans. Such lynchings had ...
