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I need this Dutch sentence translated to English, please: Billie Holliday maakte in de jaren dertig een paar prachtige platen met het Teddy Wilson Orchestra. Tegen het eind van haar carrière maakte ze een paar goede platen voor jazz-impresario Norman Granz, die voornamelijk te danken waren aan de musici die haar begeleidden, omdat haar stem toen al aan flarden was geschoten. Wat daartussenin gebeurde, is het gebied dat wordt bestreken door Sidney Furie's 'Lady sings the blues', dat de titel gebruikt van haar spookachtige autobiografie uit 1958. Net als collega- iconen uit de jaren vijftig, James Dean en Marilyn Monroe, heeft Miss Holliday een post-mortem-beroemdheid verworven die ze tijdens haar leven genoot.
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Billie Holliday made some lovely records with the Teddy Wilson Orchestra in the 1930s.She made some good records for jazz impresario Norman Granz towards the end of her career,their merit largely due to her accompanying musicians as her voice was shot to pieces by then.What happened in between is the area covered by Sidney Furie's "Lady sings the blues"which uses the title if not much else of her 1958 ghosted autobiography.Like fellow 50s icons James Dean and Marilyn Monroe,Miss Holliday has achieved a post mortem fame far exceeding that she enjoyed whilst she was alive.She is repeatedly presented as a proto-lesbian,proto-bisexual,proto-feminist,proto-strong black woman or whatever label people who think it empowers them to attribute their beliefs to a dead person who is consequently unable to refute them choose to stick on her. My interest in Miss Holliday is strictly musical.In my opinion she was a considerable artist despite her lifestyle,not because of it. She clearly had some unsuitable male friends,but she wasn't a "victim". If she enjoyed the company of people in "The Life",well,she was all grown up,it was her business and her decision.