Billie Holiday

Billie Holiday was a female artist of the Harlem Renaissance time. Many songs of hers told of the trials and tribulations that African Americans, especially females, had to go through during that period of time. Her song "Strange Fruit" tells of the racial discrimination she had to go through throughout her career as a female singer. It embodies the Harlem Renaissance because mostly all Africans were going though a similar phase, when whites were not very accepting of African Americans freedoms. Many Africans were exposed to dangerous and harmful discrimination.


"Strange Fruit" by Billie Holiday